CCI 2.0 ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER

Linda Brumbach founded Pomegranate Arts in 1998 dedicated to the development of international performing arts projects working closely with artists to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition.  As creative and executive producers, Pomegranate Arts produced Taylor Mac’s multi-award-winning 24-Decade History of Popular Music and Holiday Sauce, Robin Frohardt's The Plastic Bag Store, and the Olivier Award-winning production of Einstein on the Beach with Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, and Lucinda Childs. Over the decades, Pomegranate has developed and toured many new works and touring productions with Philip Glass, Bassem Youssef  Hal Willner, Leonard Cohen, The Kronos Quartet, Virginia Rodriques, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Ohad Naharin, Ushio Amagatsu, Bassem Youssef and many others.  Prior to that time, Linda was producing director at International Production Associates (IPA) working closely with Twyla Tharp, Spalding Gray, Diamanda Galas, Elizabeth Streb, Karen Finley, Richard Foreman, Meryl Tankard, and the Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center. Current projects in development are The Bark of Millions: A Parade Trance Extravaganza for the Living Library of the Deviant Theme by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray, newly commissioned dance works by Lucinda Childs, Justin Peck, Bobbi-Jean Smith, Chanon Judson, and Leonardo Sandoval, Akoma in collaboration with composer Jlin and visual artist Florence To, Metamorphosis with Aya Ogawa and Saori Tsukada, HOST by Machine Dazzle, and the Cavafy Festival with curator Paula Prestini and the Onassis Foundation.  She received the 2016 ISPA Patrick Hayes Award for long-standing achievement in the performing arts, has served on the board of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), the advisory board for Celebrate Brooklyn, and is a founding member of CIPA (creative and independent producer alliance).  She is a graduate of the Indiana School of Music and lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband Marty and children Jonah and Molly.