THE OFFICE performing arts + film is an independent curator and production company based in New York and London and run by Laurie Cearley, Olli Chanoff, Nadine Goellner, and founder Rachel Chanoff. We work in ongoing partnerships with festivals, venues, and institutions to create cultural programming that is unique and mission specific. We also produce events around the world, and consult on programming with organizations ranging from museums to universities to libraries to PACs.
THE OFFICE programs Celebrate Brooklyn!, New York’s longest running free outdoor performing arts festival, which takes place from June through August at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell and features free music, dance, film, spoken word, and other innovative performance. Founder Rachel Chanoff has served as Artistic Director of Celebrate Brooklyn! since 1991. Celebrate Brooklyn! is produced by BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn.
THE OFFICE is the Curator of Performing Arts and Film at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), where we have programmed a year-round series of dance, music, theater, and documentary film in multiple venues on the museum campus since its opening in 1999.
Rachel is a consultant to the Feature Film and Theatre Programs at the Sundance Institute, selecting projects for the Writers and Directors Labs, and THE OFFICE produces the Sundance Works in Progress Screenplay Reading Series in New York. Rachel is also Chair of the Selection Committee for the New York Jewish Film Festival.
THE OFFICE created and programs the CenterSeries at the Williams College ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, where professional companies come for performances and residencies that include integrated programming events aimed at using the arts as a catalyst for scholarly inquiry on campus.
THE OFFICE programs music and the BYOK family music series at 92YTribeca, the 92nd Street Y’s downtown Manhattan outpost, where we also created and continue to consult on the film programming.
THE OFFICE produces events and performances in New York and around the world, notably with the music producer Hal Willner, and with the South African composer Philip Miller and his frequent collaborator William Kentridge, the Johannesburg-based visual and theater artist and filmmaker. We have produced American and international performances of Miller’s REwind: A Cantata for Voice Tape & Testimony, as well as Miller and Kentridge’s 9 Drawings for Projection and Black Box: The Music of Philip Miller for the Films of Williams Kentridge. With Willner, who works in the recording industry, film, television, and on live events, we have co-produced more than 20 multi-artist shows at venues and festivals ranging from Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn!, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery in New York, to the Sydney Opera House, the Barbican Centre in London, the Dublin International Theatre Festival, the Brighton Festival, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, and the 2010 Cultural Olympiad during the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC. THE OFFICE was also executive producer of the album Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, the soundtrack to a documentary film about Willner’s Came So Far for Beauty concerts (which we produced), and project manager for Willner on the albums Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen and Bill Frisell’s Grammy-winning Unspeakable.
Other past and present clients of THE OFFICE include the American Museum of Natural History, Symphony Space, the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative, Philip Glass, the Clark Art Institute, Wave Hill, Riverspace Arts in Nyack, NY, and the Purchase Performing Arts Center.
THE OFFICE was founded by Rachel Chanoff, who has 30 years of experience working in the arts in New York. Rachel is proud to serve on the board of the 52nd Street Project, The Jewish Fund for Justice, The Builders Association, and Working Films. She has also, since 1997, participated in the Theater Development Fund’s Open Doors program, which introduces underserved high school students to the theater.
THE OFFICE programs Celebrate Brooklyn!, New York’s longest running free outdoor performing arts festival, which takes place from June through August at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell and features free music, dance, film, spoken word, and other innovative performance. Founder Rachel Chanoff has served as Artistic Director of Celebrate Brooklyn! since 1991. Celebrate Brooklyn! is produced by BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn.
THE OFFICE is the Curator of Performing Arts and Film at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), where we have programmed a year-round series of dance, music, theater, and documentary film in multiple venues on the museum campus since its opening in 1999.
Rachel is a consultant to the Feature Film and Theatre Programs at the Sundance Institute, selecting projects for the Writers and Directors Labs, and THE OFFICE produces the Sundance Works in Progress Screenplay Reading Series in New York. Rachel is also Chair of the Selection Committee for the New York Jewish Film Festival.
THE OFFICE created and programs the CenterSeries at the Williams College ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, where professional companies come for performances and residencies that include integrated programming events aimed at using the arts as a catalyst for scholarly inquiry on campus.
THE OFFICE programs music and the BYOK family music series at 92YTribeca, the 92nd Street Y’s downtown Manhattan outpost, where we also created and continue to consult on the film programming.
THE OFFICE produces events and performances in New York and around the world, notably with the music producer Hal Willner, and with the South African composer Philip Miller and his frequent collaborator William Kentridge, the Johannesburg-based visual and theater artist and filmmaker. We have produced American and international performances of Miller’s REwind: A Cantata for Voice Tape & Testimony, as well as Miller and Kentridge’s 9 Drawings for Projection and Black Box: The Music of Philip Miller for the Films of Williams Kentridge. With Willner, who works in the recording industry, film, television, and on live events, we have co-produced more than 20 multi-artist shows at venues and festivals ranging from Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn!, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery in New York, to the Sydney Opera House, the Barbican Centre in London, the Dublin International Theatre Festival, the Brighton Festival, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, and the 2010 Cultural Olympiad during the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC. THE OFFICE was also executive producer of the album Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, the soundtrack to a documentary film about Willner’s Came So Far for Beauty concerts (which we produced), and project manager for Willner on the albums Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen and Bill Frisell’s Grammy-winning Unspeakable.
Other past and present clients of THE OFFICE include the American Museum of Natural History, Symphony Space, the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative, Philip Glass, the Clark Art Institute, Wave Hill, Riverspace Arts in Nyack, NY, and the Purchase Performing Arts Center.
THE OFFICE was founded by Rachel Chanoff, who has 30 years of experience working in the arts in New York. Rachel is proud to serve on the board of the 52nd Street Project, The Jewish Fund for Justice, The Builders Association, and Working Films. She has also, since 1997, participated in the Theater Development Fund’s Open Doors program, which introduces underserved high school students to the theater.
