Rob Bailis

Rob Bailis became the Artistic and Executive Director of BroadStage in Santa Monica in 2019. Before then, he worked as a performing classical musician for ten years prior to becoming the Interim Artistic Director and Associate Director of Cal Performance at the University of California, Berkeley, where he headed the planning team in curating all of Cal Performances productions and presentations. There he curated dance and theater presentations working closely with Cal Performances established and longstanding artistic partners that included Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Mark Morris Dance Group, Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra, Kronos Quartet and others. He was also responsible for introducing a new generation of international talent to UC Berkeley stages like Kidd Pivot, Rude Mechs, Trajal Harrell, Camille A. Brown and Dancers, Manual Cinema, Bassem Youssef, Handspring Puppet Company, Company Wang Ramirez, and more.