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Creative Team

Ash Marinaccio, Ph.D.

Founder and Artistic Director


Ash is a multidisciplinary documentarian and theatre artist. She works at the intersections of documentary/nonfiction theatre, journalism, and visual storytelling and is committed to collaborative/community-devised storytelling and expanding historical archives. For her work, Ash has received a Lucille Lortel Visionary Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, been listed as one of Culture Trip's “50 Women in Theatre You Should Know”, a recipient of a Drama League Residency, a NY Public Humanities Fellow, and is a 2x TEDxNations-recognized Speaker. She is the founding artistic director of the United Nations recognized NGO Girl Be Heard and launched Docbloc in 2024 as the culmination of her applied theatre Ph.D. research. 


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Previous Artists and Collaborators

We are proud to have these artists work on projects with us and be part of our community.


Individual Artists: Alanah Allen, Anna Savant, Anthony DeVito, Avery Ingvarson, Bryan Moreno, Ciela Elliot, Emma Kotkin, Gabby Newton, Isabel Beckner, Jamie Saunders, Jason Wang, Jenna Krasowski, Jessica Litwak, Jonah Lione, Jonathan Siverson, Joseph Shahadi, Kristen Hoffman, Kristin Cantwell, Kyla Jeanne, Lillie Beth Radziminsky, Marielle Parra, Melissa Ingle, Mick Bleyer, Michaela Brown, Opalanietet, Sommer Campbell, Stephen Cedars, Tyrus Holden, Brandy Thomas, Maria Litvan, Eva Doyle, Necati Çoklar, Rubaiyat Ratul, Naomi Infanzon, Marcela Abanto , Shaday Garvey, Noushin Anika, Akilo Kelly, Isaac Wolf, Ada Victoria Israel, Zian Xu, Raven Kennedy, Winnie Hurd, Nicholas Barreiros, Jonathan Kelly, Matthew Yuen, Rayna Brown, Alysa Asencio, Gabriella Sanchez, Lara Ramos, Daniel Gargano, Daniel Mulcahy, Steven Sanichar, Andrea Ilarraza


Organizations: Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, ASHTAR Theatre (Palestine), The Eagle Project (NY), Theatre of the Oppressed NY, The People's Forum (NY)


Schools and Colleges: Pace University, CUNY Queens College, SUNY Purchase College

Fellows 

Docbloc offers fellowships and internships in any field related to our mission to college students for credit and/or pay. Fellows work with the Artistic Director and are encouraged to develop their own fellowship based on interests, time, and need.


Patrick Beebe, Amanda Costa Diniz, and Fiona Carolynn Dietz, Media and Design, Spring 2023
Elena Davis, Media and Design, Spring 2022

Katie Brown, Documentary Research and Development, Fall 2021
Caroline Tesoro, Documentary Research and Development, Fall 2021
Amanda Rabinowitz, Documentary Research and Development, Fall 2021
Arielle Zaytsev, Producing, Summer 2021
Kristen Hoffman, Producing, Summer 2021

Advisory Committee

Jessica Blank

Writer, Director, Professor at The Juilliard School


Sarah Blesener

Documentary Photographer and Photojournalist


Dominique Bravo

Attorney and Progressive Strategist


Stacy Hartman, Ph.D.

Founder of the Publics Lab, CUNY Graduate Center


Virginia Heath

Documentary Filmmaker and Professor of Film at Sheffield Hallam University


Karen Gunn

President of Soiree Fair Literary and Talent Management


Jean Graham-Jones, Ph.D.

Lucille Lortel Professor of Theatre and Performance, CUNY Graduate Center


Emily Mann

Director, Playwright, and Artistic Director


Jen Marlowe

Documentary Filmmaker and Artistic Director of Donkeysaddle Projects


Ryan Victor Pierce/Opalanietet

Founder/Artistic Director of The Eagle Project


Joseph Shahadi, Ph.D.

Interdisciplinary Artist, Executive Director/Co-Founder, Art of Brooklyn Film Festival

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