AVERY PRODUCTIONS

AVERY PRODUCTIONS AVERY PRODUCTIONS AVERY PRODUCTIONS

AVERY PRODUCTIONS

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Uplifting

Visionary Artists

Visionary Projects

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Uplifting

Visionary Artists

Visionary Projects

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Investing in innovative artists with genre-bending projects

Founded in 2006 by Avery Willis Hoffman, Avery Productions is dedicated to uplifting artistic projects across a wide range of creative disciplines, including theater, opera, dance, music, and visual art. 


Our mission is to provide a dynamic platform for artists committed to creating socially impactful and innovative work.

About Avery WILLIS HOFFMAN [FOUNDer]

commitment to the arts

commitment to the arts

commitment to the arts

Throughout my career, I have worked across many artistic disciplines - opera, dance, theater, visual arts, exhibitions, music, tv and film/video - in a variety of roles including Writer, Director, Producer, Dramaturg, Content Developer, Researcher, Public Programming and Performance Curator, As a Creative Producer, I have supported the in

Throughout my career, I have worked across many artistic disciplines - opera, dance, theater, visual arts, exhibitions, music, tv and film/video - in a variety of roles including Writer, Director, Producer, Dramaturg, Content Developer, Researcher, Public Programming and Performance Curator, As a Creative Producer, I have supported the incubation of numerous artistic projects, and produced multiple large scale convenings of artists and scholars.  

Education

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commitment to the arts

As a Marshall Scholar, I earned a DPhil (PhD) and MSt (Masters) in Classical Languages and Literature from University of Oxford, and a BA (Bachelors) in Classics and English Literature (double honors) from Stanford University. I am also a proud graduate of The Westonbirt School (UK) and The Lawrenceville School (NJ). 

EARLY training

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WORK experience

I have dedicated myself to pursuing projects in the Arts since my first professional gig at aged 12, playing Martha Cratchitt in The Christmas Carol (McCarter Theater, NJ). After multiple summers at The Hedgerow Theatre Company (PA), where I learned every aspect of theater on and off the stage, I set off for Stanford University, where I f

I have dedicated myself to pursuing projects in the Arts since my first professional gig at aged 12, playing Martha Cratchitt in The Christmas Carol (McCarter Theater, NJ). After multiple summers at The Hedgerow Theatre Company (PA), where I learned every aspect of theater on and off the stage, I set off for Stanford University, where I founded The Highlighter's Traveling Theater Troupe. While at Oxford, I helmed The Oxford Classical Drama Society, produced and directed numerous projects includingThe Oxford Greek Festival  and The Trojan Women at the Oxford Playhouse. 

WORK experience

commitment to the arts

WORK experience

Returning to the NY area after graduate school, I continued my career in the Arts, working in various roles as a Producer, Dramaturg, Assistant Director, Company Manager, and Festival Organizer  with theater and opera director, Peter Sellars;  as international Tour Producer for Hijabi Monologues;  as Program, Communications, and Special P

Returning to the NY area after graduate school, I continued my career in the Arts, working in various roles as a Producer, Dramaturg, Assistant Director, Company Manager, and Festival Organizer  with theater and opera director, Peter Sellars;  as international Tour Producer for Hijabi Monologues;  as Program, Communications, and Special Projects Manager for The Clinton Foundation (Clinton Global Initiative); as a Film/Tv Festival Organizer for TED (TED Prize); as a Researcher for Focus Features; as a Content, Media, and Project Developer for Ralph Appelbaum Associates (Smithsonian Institute: National Museum of African American  History and Culture); as inaugural Program Director for Park Avenue Armory (NY), and as inaugural Artistic Director for Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. 

avery's NOTABLE Freelance PROGRAMS | PROJECTs | artistic work (2004-present)

Jack Tchen: Anti-Eugenics Project (2021)

Meshell Ndgeocello: Gospel of James Baldwin (National Tour, 2017-2020)

Sahar Ullah: HIJABI MONOLOGUES (International tour, 2007-2019)

New York City Opera: TREEMONISHA by Scott Joplin (Schomburg Center, 2011)

New York City Opera: Tribute to Betty Allen (Schomburg Center, 2011)

Focus Features: Iphigenia in Aulis (research for James Schamus and Ang Lee, 2009)

Jehane Noujaim: PANGEA DAY (TED | TED Prize: International Film Festival | TV simulcast, 2008)

Oxford University Classical Drama Society: ORESTES (2005)

Oxford University Classical Drama Society | Oxford Greek Festival: TROJAN WOMEN (Oxford Playhouse, 2004)

Oxford University Classical Drama Society |Oxford Greek Festival (various locations, 2004)

Peter Sellars Company (2006-present)

Peter Sellars: OTHELLO (International tour, 2008-2009)

Peter Sellars: New Crowned Hope Festival (Vienna, 2006)

Peter Sellars: ZAIDE (International Tour, 2006-2008)

Brown University | Brown Arts INstitute (2020-2024)

Matt Aucoin | Peter Sellars | AMOC*: 

Music for New Bodies (Brown Arts Institute, 2024)

Helga Davis: HELGA Podcast (Season IV, V & VI ) (Park Avenue Armory, 2022 & Brown Arts Institute, 2023-2024)

Chachi Carvalho: Local Traffic (Brown Arts Institute, 2023-2024)

Tanya Tagaq: In Concert (Brown Arts Institute, 2024)

William Kentridge & The Centre for Less Good Idea: HOUSEBOY (Brown Arts Institute, 2024)

Carrie Mae Weems: Varying Shades of Brown (Brown Arts Institute, 2023)

ArtsCrew (Brown Arts Institute, 2020-2024) 

Brown Arts IGNITE Series (Brown Arts Institute 2020-2024)

Artistic Innovators Collective (Brown Arts Institute, 2020-2024)

Park Avenue Armory (2015-2021)

Carrie Mae Weems: Land of Broken Dreams: Convening & Concert Series (2021)

Elizabeth Colomba: Minerva (1st Portrait of a Woman Commission, 2021)

Regg Roc Gray | Peter Sellars: FLEXN (International Tour, 2016-2020)

100 Years | 100 Women: online festival marking 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote (2019-2020)

Culture in a Changing America (Symposium Series, 2016-2020)

Theaster Gates: Black Artist Retreat (2019)

United Lenape Nations: Pow Wow & Standing Ground Symposium (2018)

Regg Roc Gray | Peter Sellars: FLEXN Conversation Series (2015)

Ralph appelbaum associates international (2010-2015)

Smithsonian | National Museum of African American History & Culture (my work: content and media development for 12 Permanent Exhibitions, 2010-2015; museum opened 2016)

International African American Museum  (my work: concept phase; museum opened 2023)

Museum of Tomorrow  (my work: concept research; museum opened 2015)

Canadian Museum for Human Rights (my work: concept research; museum opened 2014)

William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum  (my work: The Little Rock Nine Exhibition, opened 2010)

William J. Clinton Foundation (2006-2007)

Clinton Global Initiative (Annual Meetings 2006, 2007)

Clinton Global Initiative University (founded 2007)

Clinton Global Initiative: Inaugural Global Citizen Award Ceremony (Carnegie Hall, 2007)

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