Brad Erickson
Executive Director
Theatre Bay Area
Brad Erickson serves as executive director of Theatre Bay Area, one of the nation’s largest regional performing arts service organization, with 400 theater and dance company members, and nearly 3,000 individual members. He leads the organization’s efforts to support, promote, and advocate for the region’s vibrant theater community. Previously, Erickson served as executive director of the Northern California Supplier Development Council, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting and strengthening ethnic minority-owned businesses. Erickson currently serves as president of California Arts Advocates, the statewide advocacy organization committed to making the arts accessible to every Californian. With Deborah Cullinan of Intersection for the Arts, Erickson is the co-founder and co-director of Arts Forum SF, which advocates and mobilizes on behalf of the arts in San Francisco. Advocating for the arts at the federal level, Erickson serves as the Northern California District Captain for Americans for the Arts.
Also a playwright, Erickson’s play Woody & Me received an NEA grant for its 2001 world premier at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, IN, and was selected as best new play in the 2000 Festival of Emerging American Theatre. His latest play, The War at Home, received its world premiere at San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre in September of 2006, and won an award for Best New Script from the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. Erickson is also an actor and was recently seen onstage in the Magic Theatre’s West Coast premiere of Steve Yockey’s Octopus.