MISSION

Blair Thomas & Company is a Chicago-based theater company that creates and performs contemporary puppetry and visual theater locally, nationally, and internationally. We accomplish our mission by dedicating ourselves to the art of the puppet and its relationship to live music as an expressive form, in addition to the art as a spectacle form. We create unique, artistic experiences that are vital to the cultural life of Chicago and influential to the field of contemporary performance nationally and internationally.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Angel Ysaguirre (President)
Director of Global Community Investing, The Boeing Company

Kathy Butera
Executive Director, Sherwood Conservatory of Music

David Egeland (Treasurer)
Vice President, Marketing, General Growth Properties

Vesna Grbovic
Associate Dean of Education, Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago

Justine Jentes
Director, Mies van der Rohe Society

Andrea Saenz
Executive Director, Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement

Eva Silverman (Secretary)
Director of Collaborative Programs, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs

Blair Thomas
Artistic Director, Blair Thomas & Company
Adjunct Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

MISSION

Blair Thomas & Company is a Chicago-based theater company that creates and performs contemporary puppetry and visual theater locally, nationally, and internationally. We accomplish our mission by dedicating ourselves to the art of the puppet and its relationship to live music as an expressive form, in addition to the art as a spectacle form. We create unique, artistic experiences that are vital to the cultural life of Chicago and influential to the field of contemporary performance nationally and internationally.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Angel Ysaguirre (President)
Director of Global Community Investing, The Boeing Company

Kathy Butera
Executive Director, Sherwood Conservatory of Music

David Egeland (Treasurer)
Vice President, Marketing, General Growth Properties

Vesna Grbovic
Associate Dean of Education, Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago

Justine Jentes
Director, Mies van der Rohe Society

Andrea Saenz
Executive Director, Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement

Eva Silverman (Secretary)
Director of Collaborative Programs, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs

Blair Thomas
Artistic Director, Blair Thomas & Company
Adjunct Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago