board of directors 
about viBe
Trevor P. Foley, Chair
Trevor is a product manager at Macquarie Capital Investment Management in New York. He has specialized his Wall Street career in institutional sales and marketing as well as strategic and financial communications. He has previously worked at such firms as Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase, and Gargiulo + Partners. Trevor holds a B.A. in American & Southern Studies from Vanderbilt University. Trevor's involvement with viBe Theater Experience is an extension of his personal interest in the performing arts. While at Vanderbilt, he served on the board of Vanderbilt University Theatre as business manager and president. Since 2002, he has studied sketch and improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, The Peoples Improv Theater, and the Magnet Theater. Trevor was also a producer and co-playwright of K(no)w, a one-act play that premiered at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in April 2005.
Kristin Marting, Secretary
Kristin Marting is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of HERE and has constructed 24 hybrid works for the stage (10 original works, 8 adaptations of novels and 7 classic plays). For the last 15 years, she has been developing a unique hybrid directorial / choreographic form that features a "gestural vocabulary" used both as an emotional signifier and as a choreographic element. Her work has been supported by the NEA, NYSCA, DCA, Aeroflex Foundation, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Jerome Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation Multi Arts Program and Peg Santvoord Foundation; reviews have appeared in all major New York media. She co-founded Tiny Mythic Theatre Company in 1988 and HERE Arts Center in 1993. As Artistic Director of HERE, she cultivates artists and programs all events for two performance spaces for an annual audience of 45,000. Under her leadership, HERE has received thirteen OBIE-awards, one Pulitzer Prize nomination, and two Drama Desk nominations. She has lectured and been a guest artist at Bard, Brown, Columbia, Harvard, NYU and Williams. She regularly serves on grant panels for TCG, DCA and NYSCA, among others.
Ian Ferguson, Treasurer
Dana Edell
Dana is the co-founder and executive director of viBe Theater Experience. She has co-directed almost all the 40+ productions, written and performed by viBeGirls. Dana also co-founded and directed Inside/Out Performing Arts, a playmaking company with girls affected by the juvenile justice system in San Francisco and ran a technical theater job training program for low-income youth at Brava! for Women in the Arts. As a theater director, Dana has produced, written and directed new plays, rock operas and classical works at small theaters across the country. She was a theater artist-in-residence in public schools in the Bronx and Harlem, and teaches as an adjunct in the Theatre Department at Marymount Manhattan College and with the Bard College Prison Initiative at Bayview Women's Prison. She has spoken at conferences worldwide and published multiple articles about the need for creative arts opportunities for girls. Dana holds a BA with honors in Classics/ Ancient Greek from Brown University, an MFA in Theater Directing from Columbia and is currently working on her PhD in the Performing Arts Department of the Steinhardt School for Education, Culture and Human Development at New York University.
Tom Ontiveros
Tom Ontiveros is an educator and theatrical designer focusing on new and premier works by composers including Paul Dresher, Mark Grey, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Santa Cruz Civic); playwrights Naomi Iizuka, Charles Mee and Jessica Hagedorn; choreographers Allyson Green, Yolande Snaith, Mark Haim, and Scott Wells. Touring work includes productions in The Holland Festival, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, and The International Theatre Festival in Cluj, Romania as well as national tours with The Paul Dresher Ensemble for Ravenshead, Slow Fire, and Soundstage. Other collaborations include projects with Michael Grief, Bob Balaban, Campo Santo, and Erin Mee. Recent work includes Production Design for Schick Machine with composer Paul Dresher and Writer/Director Rinde Eckert. Other design credits include: Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse); The Exonerated (Culture Project-New York Premiere); The Tyrant (Paul Dresher Ensemble); Enemy Slayer (Phoenix Symphony); Unstoppable (St. Joseph Ballet); Garden of Lila, Garden of Deadly Sound, Garden of Forbidden Loves, Iman (IMAGOmoves); Sweet 15 (San Diego Rep); My Old Lady, Visions of Kerouac, Indiscretions, Candida (Marin Theatre Company); Miss Julie, Women Center Stage (Culture Project); Full Circle (Danspace); A Dance Party (Joyce SOHO); Veils, Vestiges… (Ontological-Hysteric); First Love, Schrodinger's Girlfriend (Dean Goodman Award), Summertime (Magic Theatre); Contagion, Funny House of a Negro (Dean Goodman Award), The Language of Angels (Intersection for The Arts); Tattoo Girl (Sledgehammer). Tom is an Assistant Professor of Design at California State University, Chico.
chandra thomas
chandra thomas is the co-founder and director of programming of viBe Theater Experience. She is consistently amazed by the 175+ “viBe Girls” who have shared their creative voices through their original plays, solo shows, music and performances. As a professional actor/ writer/ producer, chandra has worked and studied for over 15 years across the United States and internationally. Her long-standing artistic interest is in the development and creation of fresh, new works. To this end, chandra has originated roles in plays as well as performing in film, television and voiceover. She has also written and produced new plays and theatrical experiences. As an educator, chandra teaches collaborative theatre development, business for performing artists and performance as empowerment. She currently teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Recently, she completed a performance as empowerment workshop series at the Ferris School for Boys, an all-male juvenile detention center in Wilmington, DE. She has also taught at Creative Arts Team at the City University of New York, New York Film Academy, University of Minnesota, Webster University, among others. chandra graduated, with honors, with a BA in Theatre Arts and BA in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University.