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WORKING 3: Establishing COVID-19 Safety Protocols for your Art Practice

KST Presents

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 | 6:00pm

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Being an artist in a pandemic means establishing new safety protocols for you and your collaborators. Join KST’s Producer of Engagement and Social Impact Sondra E. Woodruff II and New Hazlett Thearer’s Director of Programming, Kristin Helfrich for a conversation about the considerations one needs to undertake, and the measures that should be set in place for collaborating safely through COVID-19.


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Sondra E. Woodruff II joined the Kelly Strayhorn Theater team in July 2019 as the Producer of Engagement and Social Impact and has recently added to her role KST Rental Program Lead and Virtual Production Manager. Sondra is a Pittsburgh native, who has spent the last 10 years in New York City and 20 years in the music industry as a professional recording artist, singer songwriter, and guitarist. Sondra has toured with The Backstreet Boys in Germany, opened for Anthony Hamilton, performed with Taylor Swift, recorded a demo with LL Cool J and played guitar for Aaron Pfeiffer, Drew Vision, BETS, and Grey’s Anatomy star Sara Ramirez. Sondra has a Bachelor’s degree in Music from Columbia University in the City of New York, which is where she began to marry her love and practice of music with topics in cognitive neuroscience. With KST’s transition from in-person to virtual programming, Sondra supports KST programming by coordinating, researching, directing and designing the technical needs for virtual programs. As KST’s rental program lead, Sondra has been focused on researching and designing COVID-19 Safety Protocols for in-person rentals.

Kristin Helfrich is the Director of Programming at the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh, PA where she curates the Community Supported Arts series, a new work residency program that gives local performance-based artists the opportunity to produce new work in a professional environment. Kristin has spent the past fifteen years supporting innovative artists in various disciplines. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Lighting Design and Photography from Columbia College in Chicago. While in Chicago, she served as Lighting Supervisor and Production Manager for Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and Stage Manager for Ballet Chicago.

In 2008, she joined the world renowned modern dance company Pilobolus, where she toured internationally for four years as Production Stage Manager before becoming Production Manager in 2011. During that time she worked on the International Collaborators Project (ICP), which brought together artists from all over the world to collaborate on new dances. Collaborators included Basil Twist, Imball Pinto & Avshalom Pollak, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Art Spiegalman, Trish Sie and Penn and Teller.

A native of Pittsburgh, Helfrich has worked locally as the Production Manager for Kelly Strayhorn Theater where she oversaw the production of Takes, by Maria Canuso Dance and multimedia artist Lars Jan and root, a one-woman show by Vanessa German,  as well as many other interdisciplinary performances.  At Bricolage Production company she oversaw the production of large-scale immersive works including, Welcome to Here,  Dodo, and the company’s first immersive escape room, Enter the Imaginarium. Helfrich holds her Master of Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon University.