{"id":979,"date":"2020-08-30T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=979"},"modified":"2020-10-12T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:12:18","slug":"drew-klein","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/drew-klein\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Klein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Drew Klein\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a performance curator currently based in Brussels. Since 2011, he has\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">served as Performing Arts Director at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cincinnati, Ohio, establishing the institution\u2019s first program dedicated to performance.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His implemented programs include the Black Box Performance Series (2011-2019), the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">annual interdisciplinary festival This Time Tomorrow (2019 \u2013 present), and the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">discourse series Goetta-Institut (2019 \u2013 present). Crafting a prominent platform for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">international exchange in North America, he has provided continental premieres for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">artists like Ingri Fiksdal, Kate McIntosh, Jisun Kim, and Mithkal Alzghair. He has\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exclusively and co-commissioned performance projects by Kaneza Schaal, jumatatu\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">poe &amp;amp; Donte Beacham, Jens Lekman, Raquel Andr\u00e9, Eddy Kwon, Lorena Molina,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radouan Mriziga, and more.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drew has collaborated as a visiting curator and lecturer at organizations such as\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fusebox Festival (Austin), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, Oregon),\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DiverseWorks (Houston), University of Cincinnati, and Art Academy of Cincinnati,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">among others. Prior to joining the CAC, he worked in independent film with sister\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">companies Cinetic Media and Sloss Eckhouse LawCo LLP. (Photo credit: Tina Gutierrez)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drew Klein\u00a0is a performance curator currently based in Brussels. Since 2011, he has\u00a0served as Performing Arts Director at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in\u00a0Cincinnati, Ohio, establishing the institution\u2019s first program dedicated to performance.\u00a0His implemented programs include the Black Box Performance Series (2011-2019), the\u00a0annual interdisciplinary festival This Time Tomorrow (2019 \u2013 present), and the\u00a0discourse series Goetta-Institut [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":1063,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}