DIANE J. MALECKI (associate producer) served for several years as Artistic Administrator of The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where she first worked with director Peter Sellars. She was subsequently invited by him to become Executive Director of the American National Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where Sellars had been named Artistic Director. In 1987 Malecki was appointed Producing Director of the newly formed BAM Opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Since 1990 she has been working as an independent producer, collaborating primarily with Sellars on the development, production, and touring of his theater, opera, and festival work.