Ralph Remington

Ralph Remington has extensive professional experience in arts administration and government, and has experience as a director, actor, essayist, playwright and screenwriter.

Prior to joining the City and County of San Franciscoas Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission, he served as the Deputy Director for Arts and Culture for the City of Tempe, Arizona. In that role, he was responsible for Tempe Center for the Arts' comprehensive performance and visual art programming, as well as overseeing public art, the Tempe History Museum, arts engagement and municipal arts grantmaking.

He previously served as the former Western Regional Director and Assistant Executive Director for Actors Equity Association in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he was Director of Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in Washington, D.C. In 2010, he received the NEA Chairman's Distinguished Service Award.

Remington has previously published an essay in the nonfiction anthology Blues Vision with Minnesota Historical Press, 2015, as well as an essay in Goodbye Billie Jean: The Meaning of Michael Jackson, 2009. He also contributed a regular column to the African American newspaper Minnesota Spokesman Recorder titled "Keeping It Real."

Prior to working at the NEA, Remington was a City Council member for the City of Minneapolis. He is a former Guthrie Theater Acting Company member and is the founding Producing Artistic Director of award-winning Pillsbury House Theatre in South Minneapolis. Remington has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from Howard University.