Rachel Katwan

Rachel Katwan is an arts administrator living in Brooklyn, New York. She currently serves as the General Manager for Pomegranate Arts, a Creative Producer dedicated to the realisation 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, 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 to 2016 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 – 2012), multi-venue “Si Cuba Festival” (2011), three seasons of “RadioLoveFest” (2014 – 2016), and BAM’s (Brooklyn Academy of Music) annual DanceAfrica programme.