Carla Blank
Carla Blank (Director) began her performance career as a child and made her New York City debut in 1963, as a participant in the experimental and collaborative Judson Dance Theater Workshops. She has been a performer, director, and teacher of dance and theater in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty-five years, especially devoting her time to youth and community arts performance projects. Funders of Bay Area programs have included the California Arts Council, the Alameda Arts and Berkeley Civic Arts commissions, and the Zellerbach, Stulsaft and San Francisco foundations. She has been involved in the development of The Domestic Crusaders since its inception, both as dramaturg and director. She is co-author, with Jody Roberts, of "Live On Stage!," an anthology of performing arts techniques and styles available in teacher resource and student editions (Dale Seymour Publications, a Pearson education imprint, 1997), and author and editor of the recently released historical reference, "Rediscovering America, The Making of Multicultural America, 1900-2000," (Three Rivers Press, a Random House imprint, 2003). Her current writing project is a timeline of 19th century America.