7 September – 5 November 2023

Amal Walks Across America

Little Amal is a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who has traveled across 16 countries meeting more than a million people.  Between 7 September and 5 November 2023, she journeyed 6,000 miles across the United States in one of the largest free public festivals ever created.

50 towns and cities from Boston to San Diego and 1,000+ artists and arts organizations created 123 events to welcome her.   Click the tiles below to explore Amal’s events in the United States. 

One little girl. One BIG hope. 

“The story of the United States has been shaped by a complex history of migration and movement that touches every corner of the globe. But the myriad challenges of today’s interconnected world are forcing many to revisit America’s status as the land of opportunity.

Our hope for Amal is that she can spur conversations in communities across the country around the important role of refugees and newcomers in writing the ongoing story of the United States.” – The Walk Productions Artistic Director Amir Nizar Zuabi

Amal’s United States team 

Meet the team of puppeteers, producers, production and communications artists who came together to create Amal’s journey across the United States.

Amir Nizar Zuabi

Artistic Director

Palestine & UK

Amir Nizar Zuabi is an award-winning playwright and director. He was the founding Artistic Director of ShiberHur Theater Company, an Associate Director of the Young Vic Theatre, a member of the United Theaters Europe for artistic achievement, and an alumni of The Sundance Institute Theatre Program.

Following his work on The Walk, in January 2022 he took up the role of Artistic Director of The Walk Productions Limited.

His writing and directing credits include I am Yusuf and This is my BrotherIn the Penal ColonyOh My Sweet Land The Beloved (ShiberHur/Young Vic); Three Days of GriefWest of Us The SeaMid Spring MusicalDry MudAgainst A Hard Surface (ShiberHur); Last WardWho Killed You AsmahanThe Huta and Grey Rock (Remote Theater Project, La Mama NYC).

Directing credits include: Samson and Delilah (Flanders Opera, Antwerp); Jidarriya by Mahmoud Darwish (Edinburgh International Festival, Bouffes du Nord and world tour); Forget HerostratusLe Mallade ImaginerWar or MoreSneezeDeep SorrowFall TaleWhen The World Was GreenLanterns Of The King Of GalileeTaha and The Comedy of Errors (Royal Shakespeare Company).

David Lan

Producer

UK

David Lan is a writer and producer. He was writer-in-residence at the Royal Court 1994/1996, artistic director of the Young Vic 2000/2018, consulting artistic director at the Performing Arts Center in NY 2014/2016 and theatre associate at BAM 2019/2020.  His publications include Guns and Rain: guerrillas and spirit mediums in Zimbabwe, a collection of plays and a memoir As if by Chance: Journeys, Theatres, Lives.

Tracey Seaward

Producer

UK

Tracey Seaward’s producer credits include Danny Boyle’s Millions, Fernando Meirelles’ Academy winning The Constant Gardener; David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises; Steven Spielberg’s War Horse; Michael Grandage’s Genius; eight movies with Stephen Frears including BAFTA and Academy nominated Dirty Pretty ThingsThe Queen for which she won a BAFTA for Best British Film and a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination, Tamara DrewePhilomena for which she received a further Golden Globe, BAFTA & Academy Award Best Film nomination, the Golden Globe nominated Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, and Victoria & Abdul.

Tracey also produced the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games, directed by Danny Boyle and The Two Popes directed by Fernando Meirelles starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce which was nominated for 4 Golden Globes, 4 BAFTAs, 3 Academy Awards.

Tracey was Executive Producer on Pistol a six hour limited series directed by Danny Boyle for FX and is Executive Producer on The Palace currently in production for HBO directed by Stephen Frears and starring Kate Winslet.

Sarah Loader

Executive Producer

UK

Before walking with Amal, Sarah Loader was a General Manager and Theatre Producer for many West End and touring theatre productions.  She was the General Manager for the Young Vic, General Manager for Mark Rubinstein (MRL), Associate Producer for ATG Productions and a Production Assistant for Bill Kenwright.  She was also for many years a freelance independent producer specialising in new plays and musicals. Between 2009 and 2016, she was creative associate to Simon McBurney.

The Office Performing Arts + Film

US Producing Partner

United States

THE OFFICE performing arts + film develops, produces, and presents art that makes a difference.

We are an independent performing arts and film curator and production company based in New York and London that works in ongoing partnerships with festivals, venues, and institutions to create cultural programming that is unique and mission specific. We produce events locally, nationally, and internationally, and consult on programming with organizations ranging from museums to universities to libraries to performing arts centers to philanthropies. We work in both the non profit and commercial arts worlds, and we have a special focus on making art happen that has a positive impact on society.

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Rachel Chanoff

Founding Director, The Office Performing Arts + Film

United States

Rachel Chanoff has been working in performing arts and film for 35 years and is the founder and director of THE OFFICE performing arts + film, her New York City-based programming, consulting, and production company. She is the Curator of Performing Arts and Film for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Director of Programming of the CenterSeries at the ’62 Center for Theater and Dance at Williams College, Consultant to the Feature Film and Theater Programs for the Sundance Institute and to the RAWI screenwriters lab in Jordan, Curator of The New York Jewish Film Festival and The Margaret Mead Film Festival, Senior Artistic Advisor to the FreshGrass Foundation, and the Artistic Director of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, New York’s longest running free outdoor performing arts festival. Rachel is proud to serve on the board of the 52nd Street Project and Working Films. She is also a long time participant in the Theater Development Fund’s Open Doors program, which introduces underserved high school students to the theater.

Erica Zielinski

Managing Director, The Office Performing Arts + Film

United States

Erica joined THE OFFICE in 2019. Her initial projects have included lead producer for the Kennedy Center’s 16-day festival launching their expansion campus, The REACH Opening Festival, and producer of the FFCON, the first ever nation-wide convening of For Freedoms. As one of our lead strategists for the overall development of THE OFFICE, Erica also mentors our emerging producers and programmers. For over two decades, Erica was the founding Producer/General Manager of the Lincoln Center Festival, the standard-setting summer global arts festival in New York City where her oversight included producing over 1,500 presentations of music, opera, dance, theater, installations, site-specific work, and multi-disciplinary visual and performing arts, for audiences of 1 to 4,000 in venues from city streets, abandoned warehouses, black boxes, and circus tents to the Park Avenue Armory, City Center, Governor’s Island and the stages of Lincoln Center including the Metropolitan Opera House. Erica holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University. She sits on the Board of the Brooklyn Youth Music Project and the Parents Association of MS 51. In her spare time, Erica tends to her garden, leads a book club and hopes someday to return to playing the harp and throwing pots.

Jamie Bennett

Fundraising Consultant

United States & Canada

Jamie Bennett [he/him] works at the intersections of nonprofits, philanthropy, and the public sector with arts, culture, and comprehensive community development, across rural, suburban, Tribal, and urban geographies.

For seven years, Jamie was the Executive Director of ArtPlace America, a ten-year, $150 million philanthropic collaborative that invested in artists working as allies in equitable community development. Jamie has also served as interim President and CEO of United States Artists; and worked as a Chief of Staff at the National Endowment for the Arts in President Obama’s administration, at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Mayor Bloomberg’s administration, and to the President of Columbia University.

Jamie provided strategic counsel to the Agnes Gund Foundation and worked in fundraising at the New York Philharmonic and at Columbia University. Jamie is on the board of directors for the David Rockefeller Fund, the emeritus board of the HERE Arts Center, and advisory councils for the Make Music Alliance and The Heritage Center (Itówapi Owápazo) of the Red Cloud Indian School in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota.

Jamie lives, works, worships, and plays in both Brooklyn, NY and Toronto, ON

Melissa Gallin

Fundraising Consultant

Khadijat Oseni

Artistic Associate

Enrico Wey

Artistic Associate and Director of Puppetry

Taiwan & Spain

Enrico Dau Yang Wey from Taiwan, is Puppetry Director and Artistic Associate for all productions with Little Amal. They have been a long standing senior member of Handspring and has performed in Kentridge’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and War Horse on Broadway.

They were Resident Puppetry Director for the German production of War Horse. Enrico has presented work through Danspace Project (US), Conde Duque (ES), and for River to River Festival 2018 (US). Notable roles include Shulea Cheang’s 3x3x6 (2019 Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion), Dennis Cooper/Zac Farley’s feature film Like Cattle Towards Glow and roles for choreographers Robyn Orlin, Annie-b Parson, and Ishmael Houston-Jones.

Enrico holds an MA from UdK Berlin and has published research through Brumaria (ES) and Performance Research (UK). Most recently, Wey performed in the UK touring production of Animal Farm and performed a vocal score rooted in this research for Picnic Sessions at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid.

Muaz AlJubeh

Technical Director

Palestine

Muaz Aljubeh is a Jerusalem based, Palestinian lighting designer who has been working in the field since 1995. He was the technical director for Al-Kasaba Theatre and Cinematheque for almost 20 years and is currently the technical director for the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival since its founding in 2006.

He has created light for more than 30 local productions, which have toured nationally and internationally. His work has been seen in notable theatres and festivals such as Tokyo Art International Festival (Japan), Carthage Theatrical Days Festival (Tunisia), Young Vic Theatre (United Kingdom), The Avignon Festival (France), and the Institute De La Monde Arab (France). He is currently touring TahaAzzaWhere Can I Find Someone Like You, Ali?, and Against a Hard Surface.

Brendon Boyd

Head of Production, The Office Performing Arts + Film

Brendon Boyd is the owner and Principal of BoydDesign Inc, a design, production and consultancy company founded in 2009. BoydDesign specializes in production design and lighting for concerts, theater, festivals, trade shows, special and corporate events as well as lighting for architecture and other themed environments. Brendon and the BD team have been working with THE OFFICE for over a decade and most recently have collaborated on events and shows such as BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival (where he is the Director of Production), The Reach Opening Festival at the Kennedy Center (Washington DC), The Mile-Long Opera (The Highline, NYC), William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load (Tate Modern, London; Ruhr Festival, Germany; NYC), the For Freedoms Congress (LosAngeles, CA), and Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia (Melbourne, Australia; NYC; Boston; Paris; Phnom Penh, Cambodia). BoydDesign provides support for events such as these in the form of production management, technical direction, lighting design and programming, stage management, staffing, and stage building. In his spare time Brendon enjoys riding his motorcycle, camping in our National Parks and traveling around the world.

Mego Williams

Deputy Head of Production, The Office Performing Arts + Film

Mego (Meghan Maureen Williams), AEA, Production Stage Manager, oversees stage management aspects of all The OFFICE shows. Originally trained as a performer and designer, Mego has worked all over NYC in all departments of production and design. A long-time collaborator of THE OFFICE and BoydDesign, some of her credits include The Mile Long Opera, eleven seasons of the Celebrate Brooklyn!, William Kentridge’s Sibyl and Angelique Kidjo’s Yemandja. She was PSM on David Byrne’s Contemporary Color, Neurosociety and the early versions of Theater of the Mind, Nick Cave’s The Let Go, Taryn Simon’s An Occupation of Loss, five BRIC JazzFests and three Great Small Works’ International Toy Theater Festivals. She is also puppeteer, mom to twins, an advocate for neurodiversity, and Associate Artistic Director of award-winning multi-disciplinary theater company Drama of Works.

Bruna D'Avila

Artistic Programming Associate

Brazil & United States

Bruna d’Avila is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and proud University of Michigan alumni. She has served as a creative producer on The Mile Long Opera, The REACH opening Festival at the Kennedy Center, Waterlicht, Antigone in Ferguson, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and the For Freedoms Congress, among other projects. Most recently, Bruna has led artistic partnerships for THE OFFICE’s work with Yo-Yo Ma from West Virginia to Kenya and Little Amal from Boston to San Diego. Outside of THE OFFICE, you can find her at Samba parties with her Brazilian friends and serving on the board of The Barn at Lee.

Frances Caperchi

Events Production

Italy & United States

Barbara Sartore

General Manager, The Office Performing Arts + Film

United States

A native of Italy, Barbara is a general manager and producer with over 20 years of combined experience in the US and Europe, presenting, producing, and touring national and international multidisciplinary performances. Before joining THE OFFICE she worked on Broadway and, off-Broadway for some of the largest not-for-profit performing arts organizations, Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts and The Public theater. At the Lincoln Center Festival Barbara was involved in the artistic planning of the Festival line-up from selecting the shows to presenting and curating the ones produced by the Festival. As Programming Budget Manager at The Public Theater, Barbara was responsible for creating and managing the budgets for all productions, from inception to closeout, for the downtown season (5 theatres), Shakespeare in the Park (Delacorte), Public Works, the Mobile Unit, Public Lab and all the Tour activities. Barbara earned a Dottore in Lettere e Filosofia degree from the Universita degli Studi di Firenze and an MFA in Theatre Management from Brooklyn College. In her spare time Barbara loves to cook, garden, and sit by the sea. Sailing around the world is her next dream to fulfill.

Chloe Golding

General Manager, The Office Performing Arts + Film

United States

Chloe joined THE OFFICE in June of 2018, and we have little memory of life before her arrival. As General Manager, she coordinates all agreements with our various partner institutions, as well as with the vendors, individuals, venues, and other contracting parties associated with our many productions, and administers all incoming and outgoing financial transactions. She does this with both extraordinary attention to detail and a surprising level of good humor. Chloe graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a double major in Piano Performance and Music Business, and attended the Performing Arts Administration Masters program at NYU. Prior to becoming part of THE OFFICE team she was a development fellow at HERE Arts center, a freelance musician, and a music teacher (she continues the latter two). In her free time she likes to go to shows, eat brunch, and play a lot of music.

Soleil George

Production Coordinator, The Office Performing Arts + Film

United States

Soleil (she/they) is native to Miami, FL and is a 2022 graduate of Louisiana State University where they studied Business Management and Strategic Leadership as well as Arts Administration. They discovered their love for the arts in middle school after attending their first theatre class and falling in love with the craft. Throughout their career they hope to produce art for black and queer audiences, especially for those that wouldn’t usually be exposed to it. In their free time, Soleil enjoys baking, watching anime and korean dramas, playing video games (especially the Sims 4) and spending time by the water. Production credits at the office include; Lincoln Center’s You Are Here,The Watermill Center’s Crossroads: A Summer Festival led by Carrie Mae Weems and Robert Wilson, Rolex Arts Weekend at BAM, Project Everyone’s Business as Usual…? for UN General Assembly week, Yo-Yo Ma’s Our Common Nature and Bach Projects, William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load.

Carol Blanco

Company Manager

United States

Carol Blanco met The OFFICE team Company Managing Wayne McGregor/Olafur Eliasson’s production of Tree of Codes at the Park Avenue Armory. She was delighted to join in adventures on the road thereafter with projects such as William Kentridge’s Refuse the Hour and The Head & The Load, Carrie Mae Weems’ Grace Notes, The Reach Opening Festival at the Kennedy Center, Theater of War’s Antigone in Ferguson, The Onassis Festival, Bangsokol, Carrie Mae Weems/Robert Wilsons Crossroads Festival, The Mile Long Opera, in venues such as The Tate Modern, The Holland Festival, MASS MoCA, Watermill, BAM and the like. Prior to coming onboard full-time with The OFFICE, Carol worked as Company Manager at The Park Avenue Armory on such productions as Robert Wilson’s Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, Kenneth Branaugh’s Macbeth, Heiner Goebbel’s De Materie, Peter Sellers/Regg Roc’s FLEXN, and Richard Jones The Hairy Ape, to name a few. Further back, she loved being Associate Producer for The Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur, California, and working with Quaternaire of Paris, France. Her life before the glamor of Arts Management was spent as a performer, primarily in dance. She is proud to have taught and choreographed for many years in ABT’s Education Dept as well as NYC Ballet’s Education Dept. Her choreography was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center Rose Theater, La MaMa, INTAR Off-Bway, and other venues. Teaching, designing curriculum, and proving relatively organized led to jobs casting and coordinating local dancers and actors for many visiting companies (The Bolshoi, The Kirov, The Royal Ballet, The Young Vic, Les Artes Florissants, Abby Theatre, Meow Meow Holiday Cabaret, Paris Opera Ballet, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Josie Rourke’s The Machine, White Lights Festival, Royal Ballet, Netherlands Opera, Thomas Ostermeier’s Miss Julie, David Henry Hwangs Silver River, Shirin Neshat’s Logic of the Birds, Royal Court Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet, Universal Ballet, etc) at Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House Special Events, BAM, City Center, and so on. At the beginning of Carol’s adult origin story, she received her B.A. in Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley and her M.A. in Theatre History and Criticism from CUNY/Brooklyn College. She is a Berkeley native and plays Classical Guitar.

Erin Mullin

Stage Manager

United States

Ana Maroto

Deputy Company Manager

United States

Elijah Grant

Videography & Documentary

United Kingdom

Elijah Grant is an experienced and creative Videographer and Video Editor, with extensive experience in creating online advertisements, trailers, documentaries, branded content, event highlights and behind the scenes. His ambition is to challenge the status quo while empowering audiences, creating video content that inspires, educates and entertains others.

Alice Evans

Documentary Producer

Laura Wohlwend

Social Media Content Creator

Switzerland

Laura Wohlwend is a Swiss theatre maker, youth worker and “social media person”. She trained on the BA Acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Laura has worked in refugee camps in Greece and is now working for the charity Compass Collective who supports the integration of young refugees through theatre. Laura is passionate about using storytelling as a tool to amplify underrepresented voices and give a positive/celebratory representation of refugees and asylum seekers.

Ashley Winkfield

Puppeteer

United States

Ashley Winkfield is a multidisciplinary artist and writer from Durham, NC where they grew up surrounded by music and the arts. They began their journey into professional performance at UNC-Chapel Hill where they were introduced to puppetry while workshopping Basil Twist’s Rite of Spring. After graduating with a degree in Performance Studies, Ashley began performing new works in New York City at locations such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Abrons Art Center, LaMama, and Greenwood Cemetery. They currently train with Shannah Rae Vocal Studios and Lucid Body Technique. Ashley is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, and Winston-Salem, NC.

Barges Smahneh

Puppeteer

Palestine

Mohammed Smahneh – who goes by Barges – is a self-taught hip-hop and contemporary dance artist. He has won various break-dance battles in Palestine and performed in many international and local projects including: Badke, a co-production between KVS, les ballets C de la B & A.M. Qattan Foundation (2013-16, Belgium); B choreographed by Koen Augustijnen and Rosalba Torres (2017-2019, Belgium);  Nomads Dance Camp directed by Dina Abu Hamdan with choreographers Jorge Crecis, Taoufiq Izzediou, and Samar Haddad King (2014, Jordan); Naji Ali with Botega Dance Company directed by Enzo Celli (2009, Italy); and was a champion in Floor Wars Battle (2012, Denmark). In 2004-5 Smahneh performed dabke in festivals in Spain and Greece. Mohammed has been a member of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT) since 2011.

Bartolomeo Bartolini

Puppeteer

Italy & United Kingdom

Bartolomeo Bartolini is a multidisciplinary artist and producer, devising physical work aimed at telling stories to inspire change and introspection, with lightness. He’s the co-founder of the culture-promoting association Echoes in Firenze. In 2021 he produced and developed The Walk’s Bloomberg Connects App ‘City Through Their Eyes‘.

Craig Leo

Puppeteer

South Africa

Craig Leo is a South African theatre designer, puppeteer and performing artist.

Local collaborations include: Magnet Theatre, Jazzart Dance Theatre, Mothertongue Project, Janni Younge Productions. Handspring Puppet Company credits include: Tall HorseWar HorseIl Ritorno d’Ulisse (William Kentridge), Or I’ll Kiss You and The Life and Times of Michael K.  Directorial Credits include: Associate Director of Puppetry, War Horse (UK, Holland and Australia), Puppetry Direction for Franco Dragone’s House of the Dancing Water and Olifantland.

Most recently: Puppetry design and direction, Elliot Harper’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, director Sally Cookson, Leeds Playhouse/The Bridge Theatre, London. Recent puppetry credits Include: Gyre and Gimble’s, Vivaldi’s Four Season Re-Imagined, Shakespeare’s Globe, London.

Emma Longthorne

Puppeteer

United Kingdom

Emma Longthorne is a British actor and puppeteer who trained at East 15 Acting School and The Curious School of Puppetry.

Theatre credits include: The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin (Stuff and Nonsense) My Other Self: Richard III (Cockpit Theatre) Dear Zoo Live (UK Tour) Home for Christmas (Lichfield Garrick) The Comedy of Errors (Open Bar Theatre) Lily and the Little Snowbear (UK Tour) Coriolanus, The Comedy of Errors (Cambridge Shakespeare Festival) Macbeth (Tristan Bates Theatre) The Snow Queen, Twelfth Night (White Horse Theatre).

Nicole Baker

Puppeteer

United States

Nicole Baker received her BFA in dance performance from Adelphi University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. At AU, she performed the works of Martha Graham, Orion Duckstein, Takehiro Ueyama, Paul Taylor, and Jiří Kylián. Currently, she is a company member of Eryc Taylor Dance and chrisbell dances. Nicole most recently traveled to Mumbai, India for a three week tour to perform in an exclusive industrial with internationally renowned choreographer Nikos Lagousakos in the 2019 Aditya Birla Group Awards.

Sebastian Charles

Puppeteer

United Kingdom

My name is Sebastian Charles and I’m a physical theatre performer/actor. Born in the UK. I started my theatrical journey very young as I’m part of a very “performy” family, this took me into TV work in my early teens but I found the love for physical theatre in my late teens which after working with Frantic Assembly, took me to college.

After graduating from East 15 in Southend studying BA in Physical Theatre and Acting, I began my crazy 7 year journey till now.

Performing as an outdoor street theatre clown as my first job post grad, to delving more into dance theatre, to travelling overseas as a lead singer in an a cappella band, performing in Latitude and Riverside Theatre on the Southbank as Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

I’m always looking for something that I know is going to creatively challenge me and a story that I believe in. This took me to Action to the Word’s A Clockwork Orange at the Park Theatre, followed by my journey in War Horse which lasted 18 months. I felt I’d been a horse long enough and wanted to speak, which took me into something a little different and narrated for the English National Ballet. Finally my last adventure before everything took a long theatrical nap was performing in The Bridge Theatre in Sally Cookson’s production of Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, all while selling hats in-between to keep that London roof over me head.

Troy Feldman

Puppeteer

Canada

Toronto-based performer Troy Feldman has worked as a professional puppeteer, actor, choreographer, dancer, stilt walker, parkour artist, acrobat, and stuntman for over 20 years.

Troy launched his professional career in the Dora Award winning musical production, Lord of the Rings (Mirvish Productions – world premiere) utilizing his skills as a stilt walker, acrobat, dancer and stunt performer.

As a puppeteer, Troy performed a leading puppeteer role as Joey in War Horse, produced by Mirvish Theatre Productions as well as The Heart of Robinhood (Mirvish Productions), The Forbidden Phoenix (Citadel Theatre/MTYP/YPT), and A Soldier’s Tale (Theatre Aquarius).  

 Troy was recently featured in the starring role of Overlord in the TV series Overlord and the Underwoods (Hulu/CBC Gem/Nickelodeon). Other film and TV credits include: Score: A Hockey Musical, ReignSave the Last Dance 2, and Stepping Up.   Troy is also a professional street dancer (bboying and house dance), and has traveled across Canada, and Europe both competing and performing.

Yukari Osaka Nishimura

Puppeteer

Japan & United States

Yukari Osaka is a dancer, theatre performer, and the director/choreographer of a dance theatre project ENTERART originally from Kobe, Japan. Yukari began her ballet training with Shibata Ballet Studio and continued with Sadamatsu-Hamada Ballet School where she joined their professional ballet company. After she moved to New York, Yukari completed the International Independent Study Program at The Ailey School. She has danced at Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre; a multimedia-contemporary dance company as a founding member since 2006. She has performed a wide range of works by choreographers such as Nikolai Fedorov, Dou Dou Huang, Ricky Jackson, Samar Haddad King, Kate Swan, Susan Tenney and Yuri Ng. She has appeared in various performances including international dance and theatre festivals, musical “Phantom” (Fleure) at Fireside Theatre and opera “Les Contes D’Hoffmann” at The Metropolitan Opera, to name a few. She also appears in commercials and music videos internationally. One of the music videos she has choreographed; “white sea” was selected at Raindance Film Festival in 2014. Yukari recently co-directed and choreographed a performance at the renewal opening ceremony of the most well-known and traffic-filled plaza in Kobe, Japan.

Ben Kramer

Production Manager

Cornwall

As well as working with Little Amal, Ben Kramer works on film and TV productions across the UK.  In his spare time he lovingly refurbishes old vehicles and spends as much time as he can in his native Cornwall.

Sophien Riahi

Crew

France

Zakaria Baggour

Crew

France

Ailbhe Fitzpatrick

Social Media Content Creator

Ailbhe Fitzpatrick is a singer/songwriter, content producer, and documentary filmmaker from Dublin. She is a huge advocate for the Irish language and the Irish Arts at home and abroad. She has done acting and stage training with The Gaiety School of Acting, Backstage stage school, Billie Barrie and The National Performing Arts School, where she also worked as a singing teacher. 

Ailbhe graduated with a degree in Film & Broadcasting with Irish language and worked as Production Coordinator for Samson Films for 2 years before leaving Ireland, on projects such as A DARK SONG, TIGER RAID, THE TRUTH COMMISSIONER, FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY and ROSE PLAYS JULIE.  Her short documentary, THE WILD GEESE won the audience award at the 2014 IFI Stranger than fiction competition. 

Ailbhe moved to New York City 8 years ago, where she worked as a Music Producer and spent a lot of her time in New York performing Irish traditional music at venues such as at the American Irish Historical Society, The Irish Consulate and The Irish American Artists and Writers Salon. 

Now based in LA, she works as a content producer and freelance music producer, specializing in digital marketing and documentary. As a storyteller, music producer, and eternal seeker of creative expression, Ailbhe is continuing to find ways to help amplify the unheard stories of the world. 

The Soze Agency

Impact Producers

United States

Our story is no different from most other small businesses in the United States. We began with an idea, compassion. We developed a system to deliver our ideas, authentic stories. And we decided the end result of our process would be equity. What is different from most other small businesses is that we also wanted to model these three values internally as a company, and not just within the products that we conceived or the campaigns that we created. So, we embarked on a remarkable journey of building a creative agency that is worker owned, with no investors, no debt and can never be sold.

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Michael Skolnik

Founding Director, The Soze Agency

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Partner Manager, The Soze Agency

Jordan Chatman

Fundraising Coordinator, The Soze Agency

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The Soze Agency

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Cause Lab

Marketing

United States

Cause Lab helps clients harness participation for meaningful social impact.  https://causelab.io/

Jessica Toledano

Founding Director, Cause Lab

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Design & Marketing Associate, Cause Lab

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Social Media Assistant, Cause Lab

Hailey Walsh

Creative + Design Director, Cause Lab

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Design & Marketing Associate, Cause Lab

DKC

Press and Communications

United States

We are defined by a heritage of exceeding expectations, through unrivaled access and unrelenting creativity. Client success is our only benchmark, and we expect to be judged on what we achieve, not just what we promise.

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