Ronee Penoi (Laguna Pueblo/Cherokee) is the Interim Executive Director of the Office of the Arts at Emerson College and Director of Artistic Programming at ArtsEmerson, Boston’s leading presenter of contemporary world theater. Previously, she was a Producer with Octopus Theatricals, where she advanced the work of Cherokee artist DeLanna Studi (And So We Walked), Phantom Limb Company (Falling Out), Ripe Time (Sleep), Homer’s Coat (An Iliad by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson), Theatre for One, and more. In addition to her work with Emerson College, she is Co-Lead at First Nations Performing Arts, and on the board of the Producer Hub. She is also a two-time recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship, recipient of a Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant, as well as commissions from Baltimore Center Stage and Pittsburgh Public Theater, for her musical composing work with collaborator Annalisa Dias. Their work, The Carlisle Project, was included in the 2024 Berkeley Rep Ground Floor season. She has been an APAP Leadership Fellow, ISPA Global Fellow and TISG Rising Leader of Color. Previously, Ronee was NNPN Producer-in-Residence at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Senior Producing Fellow and Directing Fellow at Arena Stage, and toured nationally with Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy. Her current anti-racism practice builds upon a decolonization framework and embraces systems change as a key component of that work. She graduated with honors from Princeton University with a degree in Music with certificates in Vocal Performance and Theatre & Dance.