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Lea Marshall, Producer

Lea Marshall, Producer, has worked with VCU Dance since the spring of 2004 on projects ranging from Dancing with Horses, Equus I, to co-coordinating VCU’s hosting of the 2005 Mid-Atlantic Region American College Dance Festival. She has worked as a producer and arts administrator for the past six years, serving as co-founder and Executive Director of Ground Zero Dance Company, where she has secured funding from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, among others, to produce the work of local, regional and national choreographers in a range of venues. For two years, Lea served as Administrative Coordinator for the Live Arts Technical Team, American High School Theater Festival at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She also works as a freelance writer for Style Weekly, C-ville Weekly, and Dance Magazine. She received a BA in English from the University of Virginia. Lea began studying dance in college under Juanita Wilson, Mary Marshall, and Robert Cook. She has performed in various productions with Live Arts Theater Ensemble (Charlottesville, VA) since 1993, and from 1998-2000 she danced with Steve's House Dance Collective before helping to found Ground Zero Dance Company. Lea is also a member of the Dance Critics Association.

Virginia Commonwealth University
School of the Arts
Department of Dance and Choreography
dance@vcu.edu
Date Last Modified: 11/22/2009