StreetCry Board of Directors
ROB STUPAY President. Rob has been an architect, a visual artist, a designer, a programmer, and a technical writer. As a performer, he has worked with Trajal Harrell Dance Style, KJ Holmes, 600 Highwaymen, and Reza Abdoh. He has taught at the Boston Architecture Center, lectured at RMIT, and been a visiting critic at Pratt and City College. He has a Master’s degree in Architecture from MIT. He currently works for the Ethereum Foundation and is on the curatorial board for an art exhibit at NASA’s Biocene conference.
ELISE BERNHARDT has worked in the non-profit sector for over 3 decades. Her experiences include: Founder of Dancing in the Streets and producer of numerous site-specific performances; Executive Director of The Kitchen; CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Culture; Executive Director of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and numerous other roles as a curator, artistic director and consultant. Bernhardt started Fleur Elise Bkln, a floral design company focused on Team Building through Floral Design Workshops. She is also Director of Jerusalem International Fellows: A Cultural Residency Program. She is on the board of Hook Arts Media.
SANDOR ELLIX KATZ is a fermentation revivalist. He is the author of five books: Wild Fermentation; The Art of Fermentation; The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved; Fermentation as Metaphor; and his latest, Fermentation Journeys. Sandor’s books, along with the hundreds of fermentation workshops he has taught around the world, have helped to catalyze a broad revival of the fermentation arts. Sandor seeks to expand the context for thinking about fermentation beyond its food and beverage applications to its profound role in the generation, maintenance, and evolution of life, and its continuing metaphorical and creative power. A self-taught experimentalist who lives in rural Tennessee, the New York Times calls him “one of the unlikely rock stars of the American food scene” and the BBC says “his teachings and writings on fermentation have changed lives around the world." Sandor is the recipient of a James Beard award and other honors. You can learn more at his website www.wildfermentation.com.
NEIL GOLDBERG makes video, photo, mixed media, and performance work about embodiment, sensing, mortality, and the everyday. Exhibitions include: the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the Hammer Museum. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He teaches at the Yale School of Art and has been resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is a mentor with Queer|Art|Mentorship. neilgoldberg.com
ANNIE RACHELE LANZILLOTTO Artistic Director. Poet, performance-artist, author, songwriter, cantastoria, pluralist by nature. Inspired by the demos, cacophonous opera of pushcart peddler street cries, the roots of theater in the agora, singing the story in the piazza. Lanzillotto's stories rivet attention and ignite audience interaction. Author of the books: "Dyke Rubicons" (Quelle Presse), "Whaddyacall the Wind?" (Bordighera), "L is for Lion" (SUNY Press), "Schistsong," (Bordighera) "Hard Candy" and "Pitch Roll Yaw," (Guernica). Podcasts as "Annie's Story Cave." annielanzillotto.com
Street Cry Artist Assistant 2026
MEGHAN FLAHERTY, Artist Assistant
Meghan is a writer living in New York. She is an Associate Editor for VIA: Voices in Italian Americana. She has presented her writing at the Italian American Studies Association conference and was a featured reader at the Italian American Writers Association reading series. Her work has appeared in Ocean State Review, the Paterson Literary Review, and Ovunque Siamo: New Italian-American Writing. She received the Walter Glospie Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and has an MFA from Bennington College.
Street Cry Creation Story
StreetCry was incorporated in New York State as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization on 7/16/2018, with the guidance and assistance of Neil Goldberg, Sandor Ellix Katz, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and K&L Gates, LLP: Holly D. Hatfield, and Hilda Li. Founding Board Members were: Emily Jordan Agnes Kunkel, Annie Lanzillotto, Audrey Kindred, Salley May. Soon after incorporation, Ellynne Skove joined the Board of Directors.
Board Members Emeritus:
Audrey Kindred
Salley May
Ellynne Skove
Sean Meehan, Esq.
Emily Jordan Agnes Kunkel
Founding Board Member Salley May, pictured here with City Lore’s POEMobile, in Annie Lanzillotto’s “Passeggiata Letteraria.”
Salley May is a NYC based performance artist, since 1987, a curator of Performance Space 122's Avant-Garde-Arama series, and a teaching artist of theater workshops with mentally disabled populations through Hospital Audiences, Inc. (HAI). Salley was a social worker in a psychiatric emergency room of a public hospital, and was a longstanding member of Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok. She remains committed to the work and spirit of Tom Murrin/Alien Comic. She was part of the Performing Beyond Funding Limits Residency at the New Museum.
Street Cry Interns
Anastasia Hristidis was Street Cry's 2023 intern. She came to us in collaboration with The Loft Recording Studios in Bronxville, New York. Anastasia is a singer-songwriter, actor, filmmaker, artist and writer. She graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University with a B.A. in Film & Media Studies, and concentrations in Music and Acting. She explores healing and transcendent acts of creation. Her work focuses on mental illness and the complexity of female trauma, pain and power. Her music, which she releases as Mystery Girlfriend, spans indie and folk.
Paola Nicole Egipciaco-Cruz was Street Cry's 2021 intern. She came to us through Jan Cohen-Cruz' class "Art and Social Engagement." Paola is a writer and NYU graduate student in Experimental Humanities. She was born and raised in Sabana Grande, a small town in the southwest of Puerto Rico. Paola believes in the power of self-organization as a form of governance. Her research interests are culture, self-organization, writing as a healing method, and Caribbean and Latin-American studies She double majored in Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. Her favorite food is arroz con habichuelas.
Mavera Rahim was Street Cry's 2021 intern. She came to us through Jan Cohen-Cruz' class "Art and Social Engagement." Mavera is a co-founder of “The Being Body” podcast. Mavera describes herself as: “a Pashtun girl passionate about creating spaces of vulnerability and honesty with other women, in order to regain the confidence we are usually robbed of growing up.” Mavera has a BA from Beaconhouse National University, in Lahore, Pakistan, and is a Fulbright scholar pursuing a Masters in Politics at NYU. Mavera’s favorite food is Matakarey Rotay.