Vallejo Gantner has been Artistic Director of Performance Space 122 since 2005, and a man in the family way since 2007. Prior to this, he was Director of the Dublin Fringe Festival from 2002 – 2004 and Artistic Associate of the Melbourne Festival 2000/01.

Originally from Melbourne, Gantner has worked in a range of capacities throughout the arts in the US, Asia and Australia – as a director, writer, performer, agent, producer and programmer. He was also the co-producer of Spiegelworld in NYC and Miami from 2006-2008. Recently, Gantner has appeared as a performer in “The Curator’s Piece” by Tea Tupajic and Petra Zanki across Europe, Executive Produced the hit indie feature, “Your Sister’s Sister”, by Lynn Shelton and directed a new concert performance by Irish composer / singer Julie Feeney.

He is a partner in a Melbourne micro-brewery – Mountain Goat Beer and sits on the board of the National Performance Network (USA), Jianguo Pty Ltd (Aus), and Four Winds Foundation (Aus) and the advisory board of Fortnight Journal (USA).

Jeso O’Neill proudly hails from the sunny state of Florida where she graduated with honors from the University of South Florida with a B.A. in Dance Studies and minor in Business Administration. In her 7 years of living in New York, Jeso has worked with various dance and theater companies in various production, marketing and management positions such as Dancewave, Half Straddle and the Paper Industry to name a few. She made her Performance Space 122 debut by performing in the National Theater of the United States of America’s Chautauqua! which lead to her becoming NTUSA’s Company/Tour Manager from 2009-2012. Jeso enjoys cooking, social media-ing, and cats.

Alex Reeves studied writing and film production at Tufts University where he co-founded bushorchimp.com, an early political satire sensation. He went on to found TaketheHandle.com, an innovative online cultural magazine “For Thinking Rascals Everywhere.” For the past few years he has been dedicated to developing creative technology solutions and videos at the legendary downtown performance art venue Performance Space 122. His interest in film is also on display in his production design work on several shorts, music videos and commercials by the Kodak Vision Award-winning directing team PEKING.

Before working for PS122 Bevin Ross headed fundraising efforts for several high profile PBS programs for WNET/Channel Thirteen including Nature, Blueprint America, Wide Angle and the highly successful series Women, War & Peace, produced by Abigail Disney and featuring Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee. Her background also includes business administration and fundraising for Wingspan Arts, a growing arts education not-for-profit serving over 20 schools in the New York City tri-state area. Before coming to New York she helped launch the Artist Story collection for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs’ website the Chicago Artists Resource, a collection of narratives by Chicago Artists focused on providing professional development advice to their peers. Ms. Ross holds a Masters in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a thesis focusing on international Latino theater festivals in the United States. She also holds a dual bachelors degree in Performing Arts and Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis.

Lori Vroegindewey has been with Performance Space 122 since 2004, starting as an intern and working her way through various roles to her current position as Individual Giving and Special Events Manager. Lori is an avid cyclist, a master composter through the DSNY and in her spare time likes to volunteer and advocate for organic farming causes.

Prior to working at PS122, Jess Edkins was the Producing Assistant at Whitney Live, the live performance department at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she headed projects as varied as Christian Marclay: Festival, Elizabeth Streb’s ASCENSION and the re-staging of Trisha Brown’s Walking on the Walls and Man Walking Down the Side of Building. As a freelance producer she has worked on projects at the Greene Space, Joyce Soho, and Alvin Ailey Studios. She is currently a Master’s Candidate in Performing Arts Administration at New York University and holds a bachelors degree in Dance and Art History from Mount Holyoke College.

Prior to joining PS122 in summer 2011 as a creative producer, Amy Rogoway spent five years at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as Program Coordinator in the Programming Department. She has worked as a dramaturg at the Dallas Theater Center, Yale Rep, Yale Cabaret, and the Guthrie Theater, and several seasons at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in the marketing and development departments. She received her BA from Grinnell College (with a double major in History and Theater), followed by an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, and has received teaching fellowships from Yale College, a dissertation fellowship from the Yale School of Drama, and a Fulbright for research in Spain.

Chris Walters started working at PS122 in 2003, and never really went away. He’s thrilled to be back in the more full-time role of Patron Relations & Box Office Manager. A passionate writer and city-enthusiast Chris’ musings can be found on his Corner By Corner blog. He will begin a Masters Program in Urban Planning at Hunter College in February 2013.

Finding PS122 as an intern in 2011, Erica has been realizing her dreams as an arts administrator in New York City since the winter of 2012. A recent graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle, Erica received her BA in Psychology, and minors in dance and anthropology. Her West Coast background includes acting as assistant to the founding director of the University of Washington’s Chamber Dance Company, as program assistant for the Education and Community Programs department at the Seattle Theatre Group, and as an administrative assistant at the Bates Dance Festival in Maine. In addition to her work at PS122, Erica also functions as program assistant for Fourth Arts Block, a non-profit organization leading the cultivation of Manhattan’s only city-designated cultural district in the East Village.