The Field Office 501 c(3) is a creative hub in the Delaware Valley where visiting artists and our local community grow together through a shared commitment to creative sustainability. We support emerging artists and community based creative work to build a cycle of mutual investment, inspiration, and impact.
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At The Field Office we support emerging and early career artists with tools for long-term creative lives and support our local community in creative work that reflects and uplifts our region. We also aim to accessibly bring nationally recognized artists and performance to Sullivan County to enrich and inspire.
By fostering a cyclical exchange between visiting artists and our neighbors, we create a thriving ecosystem of creativity and opportunity.
Such a Fun Age
In 2024, in partnership with The Chi Hive, a local Wellness organization, we hosted a six week educational series for women experiencing menopause and perimenopause. The creative work that came from those sessions was profound. The show is based on these women’s stories and designed to be taken and transformed for any community.
Such a Fun Age is designed as a “plug and
play” theatrical template—offering prompts and flexible scenes that allow any group to adapt the piece to reflect their own community’s voices and experiences. We explore identity, invisibility, rage, power, and reinvention with theatricality, movement, humor, and tenderness. We believe our greatest power is in the sharing of our stories.
This project is made possible with funds from the Sullivan County Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance.
The Bridge Project
A supportive, skill-building experience for emerging and early career artists.
This summer, eight artists across multiple disciplines—actors, dancers, directors, writers, and creative technologists—come to The Field Office to deepen their craft, develop original work, and gain practical tools for creative sustainability. We offer hands-on workshops in grant writing, entrepreneurship, digital branding, investing, pitching, and on-set skills for camera work, all led by working professionals.
Each artist will leave with a personalized professional reel, a collaborative short film, and a stronger sense of how to thrive as a creative beyond school. They’ll also connect with local institutions and share their talents with our community — learning from and contributing to the creative life of the region.
This year our residents join us as current students or recent graduates from The Juilliard School, College of Charleston, North Carolina School of the Arts, and The New School.
The Bridge Project is a space to grow, collaborate, and connect—with each other and with the community— and most importantly, to learn how to build a sustainable creative life.
Applications for 2025 are closed. Applications for 2026 residency open February 2026.
THE STREETCAR PROJECT
With support of our local and regional partners, we hope to bring THE STREETCAR PROJECT’s A Streetcar Named Desire, following national acclaim, to Sullivan County. This bold, contemporary take brings top-tier artistry to our rural audiences—and furthers our vision of Sullivan County as a destination for extraordinary live performance.
For regional residents, we offer tickets at accessible rates including free student tickets, pay-what-you-can, and tiered pricing, and priority access.
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Our Founders
We live in a region already rich with creative spirit—Sullivan County is home to artists, organizers, and cultural workers who make bold, meaningful work and generously share their knowledge. At The Field Office, we see ourselves as part of this ecosystem: collaborators and partners building on the deep well of creativity that exists here. We also recognize that sustaining a life in the arts today requires skills beyond craft—like entrepreneurship, financial literacy, self-producing, digital fluency, and community-centered thinking-- skills often left out of arts education or illusive to early career creatives.
The Field Office was born at the intersection of these realities: a place where emerging artists gain real-world tools for creative sustainability, and where local and visiting artists come together to make work that is accessible, impactful, and rooted in mutual growth for our community.
Liza Bennett
Liza is an actor, writer, and educator with a passion for community organizing. A Juilliard graduate, she began her career in SteveMcQueen’s 12 Years a Slave (Oscar, Best Picture) and has since appeared in The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino (Broadway), The Leftovers (HBO), Chicago Fire (NBC), and many more. Her writing will be featured in the upcoming film Bodies of Water (executive producer Reed Morano, The Handmaid’sTale) and her original series ALTERED (Co-creator Chaelon Bennett) is in development with Echo Lake Entertainment (Nebraska, The Great). As an educator, she has taught at institutions like The Williamstown Theater Festival, City College of New York, and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has completed programs with Cornell (Diversity in the Workplace), NYU (Equity in theClassroom), and Theatrical Intimacy Educators (Trauma-Informed Practices), and she led PolyPrep’s LGBTQ+ chapter while serving on its DEI Director search committee and Committee for Arts Advancement. She is a grant winner of the Delaware Valley Arts Association and has been honored to serve on their grant review panel.
Chaelon Bennett
Chaelon serves as a Professor of Theatre and Performance at The New School’s College ofPerforming Arts, where she is Head of the First-Year Program and Advisory Faculty for Acting. A multi-time nominee for the DistinguishedUniversity Teaching Award and Achievements inSocial Justice Teaching, she is a founding member of the Cultural Change Task Force. Chaelon has serverd as an educator at many creative institutions such as the Williamstown Theatre Festival,Fordham University, The City College of New York, and the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Her theatrical credits include performances with esteemed companies such as Women’s ProjectTheatre, The Old Vic/TS Eliot Exchange London,and Fault Line Theatre Co.As a writer, her original series ALTERED, is in development with Echo Lake Productions (TheGreat, Nebraska) and she serves as a consulting producer on the upcoming feature BODIES OF WATER, Dir. Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale).
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