RACHEL KATWAN

Rachel Katwan is an arts administrator living in Brooklyn, New York. She currently serves as General Manager for Pomegranate Arts, a creative producer dedicated to the realization of international performing arts projects. Since 2016, Katwan has served on Pomegranate’s core producing team for large scale works by artists including Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs, Taylor Mac, Robin Frohardt, and Bassem Youssef, and for North American multi-city tours of the Batsheva Dance Company and Japan’s Sankai Juku. In 2023, on behalf of Pomegranate, she served as the lead festival producer for the Onassis Foundation’s Archive of Desire: A Festival Inspired by the Poet C. P. Cavafy curated by composer Paola Prestini. She previously served in various roles at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from 2004–16 and was a key member on the internal producing team for some of the academy’s most ambitious programming initiatives including the city-wide Muslim Voices: Art & Ideas (2009), The Bridge Project international tours (2009–12), multi-venue Si Cuba Festival (2011), three seasons of RadioLoveFest (2014–16), and the beloved annual DanceAfrica program.