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Steven Raider-Ginsburg
He/Him/His
National Theater Project Advisor
Executive Director
Field Arts & Events Hall
Location: Lower Elwha Klallam and Jamestown S'Klallam (Port Angeles, WA) and Mohegan, Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Nipmuc, Lenape, Quinnipiac, And the unrecognized Algonquin peoples (New Haven, CT)
Biography
Steven Raider–Ginsburg is honored to serve as the Field Arts & Events Hall as the Executive Director. Joining the team in August of 2021 Steven’s work has been focused on building this new organization from the ground up. Now open for almost two years Field Arts & Events Hall is the leading arts presenter on the North Olympic Peninsula in Port Angeles, WA.
For over two decades, Steven has provided executive leadership to non-profit arts, higher education, civic and philanthropic organizations. Most recently Steven was the Director of the Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities at the University of Saint Joseph, a world-class performing arts presenter that receives over 30,000 guests a year.
In 2001, Steven co-founded the award-winning original creation theater company, HartBeat Ensemble. Steven was selected by American Theater magazine as one of 25 young theater artists most likely to influence theater in the next 25 years. He was also recognized as a 2018 State of Connecticut Performing Artist Fellow, and by the Hartford Business Journal on its “40 under 40” list.
Steven is an advisor for the New England Foundation for the Arts National Theater Project and the Ann T. and Edward C. Roberts Foundation. Steven is a member of the 2012 Lincoln Center Directors Lab, holds an M.F.A. in Directing from Boston University, B.A. from Hampshire College, a certificate in Curatorial Practice from Wesleyan University, a certificate in Community and Culture from the Harvard Business School and a certificate in Leadership and Change from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. He has served on Hartford’s Commission on Cultural Affairs, is a current Fellow at Yale University’s Pierson College, an alumnus of the National Arts Strategies (NAS) Chief Executive Program, and an accredited Executive Leadership Coach for the arts sector.
Steven began his career at New WORLD Theater under the direction of Roberta Uno at UMass Amherst, and then went on to work with some of the nation’s most illustrious theater-makers, including Anna Deveare Smith, Shakespeare and Company, Augusto Boal, Sojourn Theater, The Civilians, and others.