EMERGE125's Artistic Director TIFFANY REA-FISHER is a NDP Award winner, a 2022 Creatives Rebuild New York Grantee, a 7-time consecutive AUDELCO Award nominee, a 2021 Toulmin Creator and 2022 Toulmin Fellow, a National Dance Project Awardee, a John Brown Spirit Award recipient, a Mellon Grant awardee through her company, and was personally awarded a citation from the City of New York for her cultural contributions. Rea-Fisher has been commissioned by Dance Theater of Harlem, Dallas Black Dance Theater, NYC Department of Transportation, Utah Repertory Theater, The National Gallery of Art in D.C., and has seen her work performed for the Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg. Her choreography has been produced in NYC at the Joyce, the Apollo, Joe's Pub, Aaron Davis Hall, and New York Live Arts. She curates the Bryant Park Picnic Performances Summer Dance Series, providing free access to art for thousands of audience members while exposing upcoming and established artists to a wider audience, and also acts as the Executive Director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative. Rea-Fisher was the first dance curator for the New York interdisciplinary arts organization The Tank, where she now sits on their Board of Trustees. As resident choreographer with the Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH), she has collaborated on their productions of Macbeth, The Three Musketeers, A Christmas Carol in Harlem, Antigone, The Bacchae, Seize the King and the company's 2024 adaptation of Agamemnon, recently staged at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. Following her 2022 contributions to CTH’s Twelfth Night, for which The New York Times suggested she should have been nominated for a Tony Award, Rea-Fisher’s choreography was prominent in The Public Theater’s 2023 Delacorte production of The Tempest as part of their Public Works program. She subscribes to the servant leadership model and uses disruption through inclusion as a way to influence her company's culture.