Ralph Remington

Ralph Remington serves as the Western Regional Director/Assistant Executive Director of Actors Equity Association (AEA). He is based in Los Angeles, California. As part of an Executive Team, comprising the other AEDs and under the leadership of the Executive Director, Remington works to develop and implement the administrative vision, which integrates key national and regional goals of AEA, the labor union representing 49,000 Actors and Stage Managers of the professional theatre in the United States.

Remington served as the Director for Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts. He was responsible for the grantmaking processes for theater and musical theater, developing partnerships to advance the theater field as a whole, and leading large-scale theater projects such as the NEA's New Play Development Program. He was appointed by NEA Chairman and Broadway theatre producer, Rocco Landesman.

In January 2014, Ralph Remington become the western regional director for Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors.^[2]

Remington is a visionary artistic director with a proven record of leadership and innovation in eclectic theatrical environments. He has directed, produced and acted in over 50 plays. He served as artistic associate and director of community engagement with Arena Stage, overseeing all of the company's outreach and education programs and a staff of 19, managing a $750,000 budget. While at Arena, he led the Living Stage Theater Company, created and toured a devised work piece called America: Work in Progress, and directed Dael Orlandersmith's critically acclaimed The Gimmick and Talking With by Jane Martin.

In the spring of 2002, Remington directed a critically acclaimed production of Amiri Baraka's Dutchman at the Source Theater in Washington.

He was the executive director of the Media Artists Resource Center in St. Paul where he was responsible for fundraising and strategic planning and engineered a successful merger with the Independent Filmmaker Project.

Mr. Remington founded Pillsbury House Theatre out of the settlement house tradition of community collaboration. He served as Pillsbury's producing artistic director, managing a $500,000 budget. He also selected and oversaw a four-to-six play annual series; founded Breaking Ice, a touring multiracial, socio-political improv company for youth and adults; and created the Chicago Avenue Project where children write and perform original plays with professional actors. The program received a Coming Up Taller award in 2005. Presented by the First Lady Laura Bush on behalf of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Coming Up Taller awards recognize outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of America's young people. In addition, Ralph has directed at Intermedia Arts, Painted Bride Art Center, The Southern Theater and Walker Art Center.

Mr. Remington is also a former member of the Guthrie Theater acting company, in Minneapolis, Minnesota with Rainn Wilson in The Venetian Twins.

Mr. Remington was a city council member on the Minneapolis City Council in the City of Minneapolis, where he governed the metropolis through legislative, administrative, and financial power, controlling a 1.4 billion dollar municipal budget.

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drama from Howard University.

He was responsible for designing and leading national leadership initiatives, developing partnerships to advance the theater field, recommending panelists, and managing the review process for theater and musical theatre applications. Ralph implemented stronger emphasis on new play development with 75% of NEA funding focused on new plays. Under Ralph's leadership fewer grants were awarded at greater financial amounts resulting in higher institutional impact. He makes frequent speeches and public dialogues to national audiences at various venues around the country. Remington has forged stronger relationships with private and public funders nationally.

In December 2011 Ralph was invited by the Chinese Minister of Culture to be a Keynote Speaker at The 2nd International Forum on the Development of China's Musical Theatre & The 5th Symposium on the Teaching & Creation of China's Musical Theatre, at the Beijing Contemporary Music Academy. He specifically addressed the funding and development of Musical Theatre by the United States of America.

Neighborhoods in Ward 10

• CARAG: Calhoun Area Residents Action Group
• CIDNA: Cedar Isles Dean Neighborhood Association
• ECCO: East Calhoun Community Organization
• EIRA: East Isles Residents Association
• EHFNA: East Harriet Farmstead Neighborhood Association
• LHENA: Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association
• LNA: Lyndale Neighborhoon Association

Major Developments or Initiatives in Ward 10

• Acme Tag
• Blue Apartments
• Calhoun Square Redevelopment
• Lake Calhoun City Apartments
• Lumen on Lagoon
• Midtown Greenway
• Mozaic
• Uptown House
• Uptown Small Area Plan
• Urban Village

Appointments
Committees

• Community Development
• Elections
• Intergovernmental Relations
• Rules, chair
• Taxes
• Zoning and Planning

Boards, Commissions and Task Forces
• Meet Minneapolis
• Southwest Corridor Policy Advisory Committee
• Urban Land Institute Executive Committee
• National League of Cities Public Safety Committee
• MTN Study Commission
• Republican National Convention Workgroup
• Civilian Review Authority Workgroup
• Minneapolis Community Development Agency (MCDA) Operating Committee
• Midtown Community Works

Speeches, Articles and Resolutions

• Animal Protection Article
• A Premier Destination Speech
• Closing Speech On Circus Animals
• Circus Animal Ban Speech
• Destroying Tribalism and Creating Community
• Final Cessation of War Resolution
• Impeachment Now
• The City Can and Should Prohibit Animal Circuses

Ralph Remington was an early supporter and a Minnesota state-wide elected delegate for the nomination of then Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States at The Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado in 2008. As a city council member in Minneapolis, he was one of the earliest elected officials in the country, along with Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak to support Barack Obama for his first Presidential bid. Remington was the first African-American and indeed the first person of color ever elected to represent his ward on the Minneapolis City Council.