08/25/2025
⚡️ Ronee Penoi (Indigenous Theater Producer and Composer) shares a piece of advice that has resonated with her throughout her work
🎉 A joint program of CDS Creative Productions and Producer Hub, The Alchemy of Performance is a series that unveils the blend of talent, technique, and creative impulse that brings performance to life. Through short form videos and longer intimate interviews, AoP will share and hear from a diverse array of artists about their personal journeys and the intricate craft that fuels their success. This newly conceived iteration of AoP partners with Producer Hub to bring the conversation to the shared artistic spaces online.
👥 About Ronee Penoi:
Ronee Penoi (Laguna Pueblo/Cherokee) is the Interim Executive Director of the Office of the Arts at Emerson College and Director of Artistic Programming at ArtsEmerson, Boston’s leading presenter of contemporary world theater. Previously, she was a Producer with Octopus Theatricals, where she advanced the work of Cherokee artist DeLanna Studi (And So We Walked), Phantom Limb Company (Falling Out), Ripe Time (Sleep), Homer’s Coat (An Iliad by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson), Theatre for One, and more. In addition to her work with Emerson College, she is Co-Lead at First Nations Performing Arts, and on the board of the Producer Hub. She is also a two-time recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship, recipient of a Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant, as well as commissions from Baltimore Center Stage and Pittsburgh Public Theater, for her musical composing work with collaborator Annalisa Dias. Their work, The Carlisle Project, was included in the 2024 Berkeley Rep Ground Floor season and is a NEFA National Theater Project Grantee. She has been an APAP Leadership Fellow, ISPA Global Fellow and TISG Rising Leader of Color. Her current anti-racism practice builds upon a decolonization framework and embraces systems change as a key component of that work. She graduated with honors from Princeton University with a degree in Music with certificates in Vocal Performance and Theatre & Dance.
