Staff

Alisha Tonsic - she/her (Portland, OR)
Executive Director

**ON SABBATICAL THROUGH MAY 31, 2024**
To reach NET’s interim leadership team during Alisha’s sabbatical, please contact us at bridge@ensembletheaters.net

Alisha Tonsic first became a NET member in 2005. She served as Board Treasurer (2006-09) before joining the NET staff as Operations & Resources Coordinator (2009-11) then Managing Director (2011-15), and now as Executive Director (2015-present). From 2003-12, she was the first Managing Director for Sojourn Theatre (now part of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice), working in partnership with the ensemble and founding Artistic Director Michael Rohd. She has over 30 years of non-profit arts administration and management experience, including positions in finance, fundraising, general management, program development, field research, and literary management/ dramaturgy at American Repertory Theater (MA), Berkeley Repertory Theatre (CA), Manhattan Theatre Club (NY), McCarter Theatre (NJ), and Theatre Communications Group (NY), and as an independent arts consultant for small- and mid-sized companies.

Alisha is currently a Board member of the Performing Arts Alliance, and of Portland Center Stage. She has served on Theatre Bay Area’s Theatre Services Committee, and on grant selection panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, New Dramatists, Oregon Cultural Trust, and Theatre Communications Group. She is an alumna of the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute, was selected to participate in the inaugural round of the TCG New Generations Program, and was named an Unsung Hero of Portland Theatre by the Portland Drammy Awards. A first-generation college graduate, Alisha received a BA in Theatre and in English from Barnard College, Columbia University, and makes her home in Portland, Oregon.