David Bury
David works in the areas of management, planning and fundraising. Since founding DB&A in 1981, he has helped arts organizations raise tens of millions of dollars. Prior to forming DB&A, he served as Assistant Director of the Vermont Council on the Arts and Executive Director of the New England Bach Festival. David has taught history and economics on the secondary and post-secondary levels, founded an alternative school, and served as Development Director for a private college. He was a Peace Corps volunteer and trained VISTA volunteers. He received a B.A. from Bethany College, WV in 1964 and a M.A. from Antioch New England in 1968.
Among the clients David has worked with are the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (capital campaign, annual fundraising, development counsel), the American Composers Orchestra (development counsel, capital campaign), Chamber Music America (capital campaign, annual fundraising, development counsel, program development), and many others.
Bryony Romer
Bryony has been with DB&A since 1996, working with clients in the areas of strategic planning, development strategy, and institutional and individual fundraising. Prior to joining DB&A, she worked with a range of cultural organizations including Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the National Endowment for the Arts, Elders Share the Arts and Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility. A visual artist herself, Bryony pursues her own work both individually and in collaborative community contexts. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from Rutgers University.
Jill Sigman
Before joining DB&A, Jill worked as Development Manager at The Field, a non-profit service organization for performing artists in New York City, and as an independent grant writing instructor and development consultant for artists working in dance, theater, and puppetry. She is a choreographer, solo performer, and the Artistic Director of jill sigman/thinkdance. Jill has presented her work in the US and Europe. Along the way, she has also led architectural tours of Belgium, restored Renaissance tapestries, and taught analytic philosophy. She holds A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. Degrees in philosophy from Princeton University.
Dana Boll
Before joining DB&A, Dana was Company Manager for American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company. She served as co-chair of the Gallatin Arts Festival at NYU, an assistant teacher at Ballet Academy East, and a resident assistant for the School of American Ballet's Summer Program. Dana is a singer/dancer/actor who works in musical theatre with a range of directors and companies in New York City. She received a B.A. with honors from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study in dance, performance studies, and writing.
Royd Climenhaga
Royd is actively involved in the New York City theater and new performance community as an artist, teacher, development consultant and administrator. He currently teaches in the theater and interdisciplinary arts program at Eugene Lang College - The New School for the Liberal Arts. He researches and writes about intersections between dance and theatre, publishing work on Pina Bausch, Anne Theresa de Keersmaeker, Big Dance Theatre, and Anne Bogart and SITI Company. Royd co-founded Human Company in 2006 with Kelly Hanson, where he explores developmental and cross-disciplinary models for performance in creating new work for the stage. He holds a BA in English from Oberlin College, and an MA and PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.
Stephanie Riven
Stephanie Riven is a consultant with the New York-based consulting firm, David Bury & Associates where she provides services to non-profit organizations in the areas of capacity building, strategic planning and leadership development.
Riven also currently serves as a Visiting Practitioner at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education, Arts in Education Program.
From 1987 to July of 2010, Riven was the founding Executive Director of the Center of Creative Arts (COCA) in St. Louis where she conceptualized, managed and supervised COCA's growth and development bringing it from a budget of $80,000 to the fifth largest multi-disciplinary community arts center in the country with a budget of $5 million. Beginning with 40 children in the first set of classes in 1987, COCA serves 50,000 people annually. The organization received many awards during her tenure including Best Arts Organization and Excellence in the Arts Award.
Riven's leadership of staff, faculty and volunteers resulted in the development of COCA's Arts Education Programs that provides 500 classes, camps and workshops annually and its Schools and Community Division that offers arts education in 50 schools. The two programs serve 20,000 students annually. She also developed COCA's Urban Arts Program that has been recognized with many awards including the Coming Up Taller Award given at the White House.
Riven is also credited for developing COCA's Interchange, one of nine programs in the country selected and supported by the Ford Foundation to increase access to quality integrated arts education for students in the St. Louis Public Schools.
Other programs that Riven developed and managed include the COCA Family Theatre Series that presents dance, music, drama and puppetry from around the world to 14,000 people annually and COCA's Pre-professional Dance Program, a program that recruits, trains and obtains scholarships for talented dance students to attend post-secondary schools. COCA pre-professional students have trained and secured scholarships to attend The Juilliard School, New York University / The Tisch School and New World School for the Arts, among many others. These graduates have joined some of the most prestigious dance companies in the world including The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Ballet Hispanico, Trisha Brown Dance Company and Philadanco, among many others.
In 2007, COCA was selected as one of 12 organizations by Harvard University's Project Zero for inclusion in a publication entitled The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education that documented the characteristics of high quality arts education.
Steve Procter
Steve has been associated with DB&A for nearly 20 years. He has held administrative positions at the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival, the Marlboro Music Festival and the New England Bach Festival. Steve is an accomplished classical guitarist. He has held teaching positions at the Brattleboro Music Center and Castleton State College, among others. He received a B.A. from Middlebury College and holds a M.M. from Ithaca College.
