MISSION

Citizen Arts and Education is a non-profit arts organization committed to generating cultural dialogue through the creation of original artistic work. 

Rob Reddy

Co-Artistic Director

Rob Reddy formed his first ensemble in 1989 featuring legendary bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Pheeroan akLaff. Since then, he has worked almost exclusively as a band leader, with the exception of brief stints with Workman’s ensemble and Ronald Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society. He founded the Reddy Music label in 2006 and released A Hundred Jumping Devils, which earned him a Chamber Music America commission. His second release, Book of the Storm, which featured an all-star 19-piece ensemble, was commissioned by the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council of the Arts. It premiered at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Rob has been awarded commissions and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the American Music Center, and the MAP Fund. He has received several residencies including at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and BRIC Arts Media. Rob holds a BFA in Jazz from The New School and an MM in Music Composition from New York University.  

Meg Araneo

Co-Artistic Director

Meg Araneo is a Brooklyn-based theatre maker and scholar whose work focuses on the intersection of performance and the history of neurological impairments. With a BA in Political Science from Johns Hopkins, an MFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon and a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Meg embraces interdisciplinary work that places practice in conversation with histories and theories of performance. Meg has worked collaboratively with performing artists from across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. She has appeared in such works as Mosca [Fly] by Fabio Rubiano, The Pelican by August Strindberg, Woyzeck by George Buchner, and a stage adaption of Akira Kurosawa’s iconic film Rashomon. She recently collaborated with jazz musician, poet, and visual artist Oliver Lake and composer Rob Reddy on the multi-disciplinary performance piece Interruption! that was presented at BRIC Arts Media in Brooklyn. Her upcoming original play, Salomania, will premiere in late 2024. 

Currently, Meg is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and an Adjunct Instructor of Drama at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.