The Expert-in-Residence Program aims to connect current Performing Arts Administration (PAA) students with experienced leaders in the performing arts to foster meaningful connections and create opportunities for student growth and career development. Each Expert meets with current students to share career insights, attends the final research paper presentations to provide feedback, and participates in the program-level events or hosts workshops, leveraging their unique expertise to engage with students.
For more information about NYU PAA’s Expert-in-Residence program, please contact performingartsadmin@nyu.edu.
Expert-In-Residence Participants 2026-27
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Born at a UN refugee camp in the Philippines to parents seeking political asylum from the communist Vietnamese government, Duke Dang (NYU PAA `06) immigrated to California, growing up with the assistance of Section 8 housing vouchers, food stamps, welfare, and attending Head Start and public schools. An inaugural Gates Millennium Scholar, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Art History at Boston University where he studied abroad in Australia, Brazil, England, India, and South Africa. At New York University, he earned his master’s degree in Performing Arts Administration.
Starting as a paid intern at Works & Process in 2003, in 2006 he became the General Manager with founder Mary Sharp Cronson, and in 2021 appointed Executive Director. Championing creative process from studio to stage, Works & Process' 15 residency partners span CT, MA, NJ, NY, and VT supporting artists and their creative process with sequenced, longitudinal, uninterrupted fully-funded residencies featuring 24/7 access to studio space, adjacent housing, transportation, health care enrollment access, and fees of $1,050 per artists/per week culminating in local community sharing and iterative Works & Process presentations in New York City at the Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, SummerStage, and Arts Brookfield. A number of these projects have been honored with Bessie Awards, National Dance Project Grants, and are now also touring national and internationally with the U.S. State Department.
During his tenure, Works & Process has expanded representation, centering BIPOC and LGBTQ+ street/club cultural practitioners, who have historically lacked access to institutional support. In 2021 Works & Process was honored with the Dance Magazine Award, in 2021 and 2022 Works & Process was nominated for the APAP William Dawson Award for Programmatic Excellence and Sustained Achievement in Programming, and in 2023 Duke was honored with the Dance Advocate Award by Dance/NYC. Duke serves on the Jerome Robbins Dance Division Committee and is a Board Member of Dance/USA. He and his husband in 2012 co-founded the Hudson Valley Dance Festival with Dancers Responding to AIDS.
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Nora Fleury is Associate Director at AMS Planning & Research, an arts consulting firm, where for the past four years she has supported nonprofit arts organizations, universities, and municipalities through strategic planning, business planning, and facility feasibility studies. She leads projects across the United States, with recent clients including New York Theatre Workshop, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, The University of Virginia, Norman Arts Council (Norman, OK), and City of Miami Beach. In fall 2025, she co-produced the second edition of the ‘Immersive Immersive’ convening with Hub Montreal, Place des Arts, and PHI, helping build a distribution network for immersive art and entertainment.
Before AMS, Nora spent seven years at the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), where she was leading a leadership development fellowship for mid-career arts leaders from over 60 countries, producing ISPA's two annual global congresses, and stewarding key funder relationships – work that took her from New York to Sweden, Australia, Canada, and Mexico. She has also held roles at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Carnegie Mellon University, 92nd Street Y, Toronto's Luminato Festival, and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal.
Nora holds an M.A. in Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. in Political Science, Economics, and Management from McGill University. Born in Paris, France, and raised in Ottawa, Canada, she is bilingual in French and English. Fittingly, she has built a career that crosses borders in the industry she loves, working as a producer, strategist, and connector.
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Laura Giannatempo is a marketing and communications executive with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations grow audiences, strengthen brands, and increase revenue through strategic integrated marketing. She is the founder of ArtsForward Marketing & Consulting, where she provides marketing strategy and leadership to arts and cultural organizations, with a focus on audience development, brand strategy, digital and performance marketing, CRM and lifecycle marketing, communications, and data-informed growth.
Laura has held senior marketing leadership roles at some of the country’s most respected arts and cultural organizations, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Mark Morris Dance Group, and SFJAZZ. Most recently, she served as Senior Director of Marketing at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where she led integrated marketing and communications strategy focused on institutional visibility, audience growth and engagement, brand development, and revenue generation.
Previously, Laura was Director of Marketing and Communications at Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG). Joining the organization in April 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, she helped lead its rapid digital transformation, developing new approaches to reaching and engaging audiences while theaters were closed. She was instrumental in the strategy and execution of multi-platform digital initiatives, including MMDG’s 40th Anniversary Digital Season, and led the implementation of the organization’s first CRM system, introducing audience journeys and conversion strategies supporting both earned and contributed revenue. As a Bloomberg Philanthropies Tech Fellow, Laura was a recipient of the inaugural Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator grant in 2021–22, building on MMDG’s digital successes during the pandemic. Projects included an all-digital membership dashboard and the Mark Morris Digital Dance Center, an on-demand dance class platform.
Before returning to in-house arts leadership, Laura spent more than a decade advising companies across consumer, higher education, and healthcare sectors as a consultant and agency executive. Her work has spanned brand strategy, digital transformation, audience and consumer research, integrated marketing campaigns, and revenue growth initiatives for organizations and brands including Auburn University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, The Hershey Company, Talenti Gelato & Sorbetto, J.M. Smucker, Johnson & Johnson, and Tupperware.
Laura began her marketing and public relations career in the performing arts, most notably at SFJAZZ, where she played a key role in increasing the organization’s local and national visibility and strengthening its brand as one of the country’s leading jazz presenters.
A former dancer who studied ballet, modern, and jazz for more than 15 years, she brings both a marketer’s perspective and firsthand understanding of the creative process to her work. Originally from Turin, Italy, Laura is based in New York City and works with clients nationally.
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Yejin Kim (NYU PAA ’19) is a special events and development professional specializing in large-scale fundraising events and donor engagement within major performing arts institutions.
She currently serves as Special Events Manager at the New York Philharmonic, where she leads the planning and execution of major fundraising and cultivation events, including the Philharmonic’s Opening Gala, Spring Gala, and Lunar New Year Gala, as well as donor events ranging from large-scale gatherings to exclusive, intimate experiences. Her work spans event strategy, creative development, fundraising, budgeting, vendor and venue management, production, hospitality, and guest experience, bringing together the artistic and development objectives of the organization.
In her role, Yejin works closely with donors, Board members, corporate partners, artists, institutional leadership, and teams across Development, Artistic, Production, Marketing, Public Relations, and Operations. She also manages external vendors and production partners, translating creative concepts and institutional priorities into complex live events from initial planning through on-site execution. Prior to joining the New York Philharmonic, Yejin worked in Special Events at Park Avenue Armory and began her career in artistic planning in the orchestral field in South Korea. She received her M.A. in Performing Arts Administration from NYU Steinhardt.
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Albert Martínez (NYU PAA ’23) built the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation’s first Strategy and Planning function: an company-wide model integrating data and analytics, long-term strategy, and performance management across five business divisions at the world’s largest contemporary dance company. As inaugural Manager of Strategy and Planning, he serves as a strategic partner to the Executive and Artistic Directors and the Board of Directors, shaping institutional priorities and ensuring alignment between artistic vision and long-term sustainability. He established Ailey’s first Business Intelligence unit and impact assessment framework, transforming how the institution makes decisions and measures its impact, and previously led its $55M annual operating budget cycle.
Before Ailey, Albert spent over a decade in the private sector leading product, growth, and revenue strategy across fintech, healthcare, travel, and B2B SaaS at companies including Trivago, Danone, CaixaBank, and Datactics, partnering with CEOs, boards, and executive teams to translate strategy into resourced plans and execution in complex, fast-paced environments.
Alongside his executive work, Albert teaches, researches, and speaks on strategy, design thinking, and organizational transformation. He is an Expert-in-Residence at NYU and a lecturer at Columbia University. His research on integrating design thinking into arts organizations was awarded by the Association of Arts Administration Educators and has been published in the International Journal of Arts Management. He has delivered over 70 presentations at institutions including the League of American Orchestras, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Knight Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and universities across the U.S. and Europe. He advises the boards of Out of Hand Theater and McKoy Dance Project and has mentored emerging leaders and start-up founders through programs affiliated with the “La Caixa” Foundation.
Albert is a Global Executive Arts Management Fellow at the DeVos Institute of Arts and Nonprofit Management. A lifelong violinist and baritone, he holds degrees from New York University, Aarhus Business School, and Pompeu Fabra University, and completed executive education at INSEAD. Originally from Barcelona, he has lived and worked across Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and is now based in New York City.
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Jack Noseworthy (NYU PAA ’23) is the co-founder of Truworthy Productions along with Tony and Olivier Award-winning Director/Choreographer Sergio Trujillo. In their Truworthy venture, Jack is passionate about bringing authentic, diverse, and socially conscious works of theater, film, and television to life. He is an acclaimed producer and dynamic, experienced fundraiser on the Major Gifts team at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, where he produces and coordinates events for their annual giving society, the Angels and Visionary Circle, responsible for raising $5M of the foundation’s annual budget. In addition, Jack manages the Broadway Cares NextGen Network—creating giving opportunities for young professionals with a passion for giving back to the community.
In partnership with seven-time Tony winning legendary producers Fran & Barry Weissler, Jack produced the Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves, adapted from Josefina Lopez’ play and hit HBO movie, with music and lyrics by seven-time Grammy award winning artist Joy Huerta (Jesse & Joy) and Fred Ebb/ Jonathan Larson recipient Benjamin Velez. Real Women Have Curves – The Musical begin previews April 1st and opened on Broadway April 27th, at the historic James Earl Jones Theatre. It was nominated for 12 Major awards, including two Tony’s before closing on June 27th. A national tour will launch in the fall of 2026. Jack also produced Arrabal (Elliot Norton Award for Best Production at the A.R.T. and Gala Production at the Ibero-American Theater Festival in Bogotá, Colombia). Additionally, he produced Playbill’s ¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices concert for The Broadway League, Voices for Change at Ars Nova, as well as NextGen Spotlight and Home for the Holidays for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, raising over $350k for artists struggling during the Covid-19 pandemic.
His producing career has been bolstered by 33 years as a stage and screen actor. Jack was honored to make his Broadway debut in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, which was followed by Cats, A Chorus Line, Sweet Smell of Success, and the original Toronto company of the international hit, Come From Away. Some of his favorite screen credits include his debut in Encino Man, as well as ALIVE, Event Horizon, The Brady Bunch Movie, Undercover Brother, Cecil B. Demented, Killing Kennedy, and several Jonathan Mostow films including Surrogates, Breakdown, and U-571. His television credits include Elvis, Mrs. Cage, Shades of Blue, CSI, Judging Amy, Crossing Jordan, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, and Dead at 21.
Jack is currently developing the musical stage version of the Manolo Caro Netflix series La Casa de las Flores, adapted by Tony winner Bob Martin with music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy nominee Andrew Lippa. Concurrently, he is developing the internationally beloved Laura Esquivel novel, Like Water for Chocolate, with music and lyrics by the Tony and Olivier Award-winning team of Lynn Aherns and Stephen Flaherty Jack received his master’s degree in Performing Arts Administration from New York University and is a proud graduate of The Boston Conservatory at Berklee as well as the Commercial Theatre Institute. His greatest joy is being a dad to his six-year-old son.
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Joe Petrowski (NYU PAA ’20) is an arts administrator, ticketing professional, and lighting designer with more than 20 years of experience in the performing arts. He currently serves as Director of Ticketing and Customer Relations at Park Avenue Armory in New York City, where his work brings together audience experience, ticketing operations, technology, and creative problem-solving.
Joe began his ticketing career while studying theatrical lighting design as an undergraduate, progressing from box office representative to supervisory and management roles. Prior to joining Park Avenue Armory, he served as University Box Office Manager at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and held positions with Blue Man Group, Madison Square Garden, Second Stage, Cirque du Soleil, Broadway Across America (Boston), ArtsBoston, and The Joyce Theater Foundation. His experience spans box office management, customer service, CRM systems, Tessitura, ticketing strategy, and audience-facing operations.
Alongside his work in arts administration, Joe continues an active career as a lighting designer, maintaining the creative practice that first brought him to the performing arts. His lighting design work spans nightlife, theater, concerts, immersive events, installations, holiday displays, television, and music videos. Notable projects and organizations include Art Bath, The Box, Knockdown Center, Gay Men's Chorus, The Saint at Large, and the Fire Island Pines Party. He is also a co-producer of New York City's Illumination Light Art Festival.
Joe's passion for lighting began at a young age through his festive holiday light creations appropriately named Joe's Amazing Lights. He went on to produce and creatively direct large-scale synchronized holiday lighting projects in Connecticut, featuring tens of thousands of lights synchronized to music. Over the years, these displays have helped raise more than $150,000 for charitable organizations.
His dual background in arts administration and lighting design gives Joe a distinctive perspective on the performing arts, allowing him to approach his work from both creative and operational viewpoints. He brings together technical expertise, audience-centered thinking, and an understanding of how artists, organizations, and audiences interact with and experience art.
Joe holds a BFA in Theatre Design/Technology, with an emphasis in theatrical lighting design, from Emerson College and an MA in Performing Arts Administration from NYU Steinhardt, completed in 2020. He also earned the NYU Music Industry Essentials Certificate from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
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A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Cameron Terry (NYU PAA `23) is a choreographer making his way through the dance world. Beginning his dance training at the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (CCCEPA), he quickly found his passion for choreography. Not one to be boxed into one style, Cameron pulls from his studies at The Ailey School and Nashville Ballet, while also taking inspiration from Luigi and West African Dance. Terry blends the technical demands of classical ballet, with the sharp lines of Horton technique, and the freedom and groove of West African dance to create his own hybrid style. His work has been described as “daring,” “an education,” and “a new school vibe, with an old school flare.” Terry's choreography received the “Outstanding Student Choreography Award” at the Regional High School Dance Festival in 2017. This paved the way for his professional debut with a choreographic residency with the students of Fort Wayne Ballet in 2018. Cameron received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Modern Dance Performance from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 2021. During his time at OU he staged a total of twelve works at the School of Dance. Cameron has set work for OU’s Young Choreographer’s Showcase, the American College Dance Association, and his own independently produced shows. He has set works and taught classes all over the U.S.
In 2023, Terry also received his Masters Degree in Performing Arts Administration from New York University (NYU). During his time at NYU, he worked closely with the CEO of American Ballet Theatre (ABT). He credits his time at ABT and NYU with providing him with the tools and skills he needs to run SHADES.
Terry founded Shades Dance Theater with the intention of bringing together dancers from different walks of life to participate in innovative storytelling that speaks to our humanity. Cameron currently serves as Artistic Director & CEO of Shades Dance Theater.
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Mara Vlatković is a marketing and communications professional currently working as a digital communications analyst at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Previously, she worked at The Juilliard School for seven years, ultimately as the Marketing Director, Community Relations, leading all digital and print marketing efforts for earned and contributed revenue across the school. Prior to Juilliard, she worked in digital communications at the New York Foundation for the Arts and a start-up in London. She has specialized in analyzing data for the purpose of making data-informed marketing and communications decisions in organizations and institutions.
Mara is also the Co-founder of Young Professionals in the Arts (YPA), a networking community that provides professional development and support for art professionals in New York City. She is a contributor to The Profitable Artist, a comprehensive “how-to” guide to being a working artist. Mara has a M.A. in Culture, Policy, and Management from City University London and a B.Sc. in Sociology from the London School of Economics.