Moira Brennan is the program director for the MAP Fund at Creative Capital. Under her 12-year leadership, MAP has dramatically increased the number of proposals reviewed annually and expanded the program's formidable impact on contemporary American performance. Ms. Brennan transitioned MAP from an in-house program at Rockefeller Foundation to an independent fund incorporating multiple stakeholders, including the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ms. Brennan also designed and administered the Creative Exploration Fund to encourage continued risk-taking among MAP grantees with a record of success, and introduced General Operating grants for structural support to organizations and independent artists. She represents the program throughout the country as a speaker on the complex interplay between creativity, art, power, and money in contemporary culture. Moira sits on the board of Movement Research and Apple Village Arts. A former editor at Ms. magazine, Ms. Brennan has written about arts and social justice for a variety of publications, including American Theater, Ms., and Community Arts Network. She has acted as a consultant for arts programs including Movement Research's Critical Correspondence and MORE LIFE: Interdisciplinary Studies and Genocide at the California Institute for the Arts. In addition to her work in the arts, Ms. Brennan consults with the Focusing Institute, a New York-based nonprofit, for Focusing in Afghanistan, a Kabul-based program that teaches coping skills to victims of trauma. She is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Bebe Miller, a native New Yorker, first performed her choreography at NYC's Dance Theater Workshop in 1978, after receiving her MA in Dance from OSU in 1975. She formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985 to pursue her interest in finding a physical language for the human condition, a connecting thread throughout her work. Collaboration being fundamental to her working process, she has worked with composers, artists, writers, filmmakers, designers and dramaturgs, along with the dancers who share her studio practice and from whom she has learned what dancing can reveal. Bebe Miller's work has been performed internationally in Europe, Asia and the African continent, and nationally in venues ranging from Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, REDCAT in Los Angeles and the Wexner Center for the Arts, to numerous colleges and universities around the country. Her choreography has been commissioned by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Oregon Ballet Theater, Boston Ballet, Philadanco, Amsterdam's Neue Dans Groep, and the UK's Phoenix Dance Company, among others. She has been honored with four New York Dance and Performance "Bessies," fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the Guggenheim Foundation; she is a United States Artists Ford Fellow and a 2012 Doris Duke Foundation Artist, and in 2013 received the New York Live Arts David White Award. A Professor in the Ohio State University Department of Dance since 2000, she is a Distinguished Professor in OSU's College of Arts and Humanities and received an Honorary Doctorate from Ursinus College in 2009.

Tere O'Connor is Artistic Director of Tere O'Connor Dance and a Center for Advanced Studies Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has created over 40 works for his company and toured them throughout the US, Europe, South America and Canada. He has created numerous commissioned works for other dance companies, including the Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project and solo works for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jean Butler. O'Connor received a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, is a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow, and a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow among numerous other grants and awards. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project, The MAP Fund, and many others. He has been honored with three New York Dance and Performance "Bessies." In 2014, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An articulate and provocative educator, O'Connor has taught at festivals and universities around the globe for 25 years. He is an active participant in the New York dance community, mentoring young artists, teaching, writing, and volunteering in various capacities. His most recent work BLEED, premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in December 2013 and toured throughout the United States. O'Connor will premiere a new work for 12 dancers at The Kitchen in December 2015.