Our Team

E-mail: aotto@catamountarts.org

Andrea Otto (she/her) is the Community Liaison and Film Curator for Catamount Arts. Andrea works with various partners including community organizations and artists to make the arts more accessible and integral to programs throughout the Northeast Kingdom. When not curating a community film discussion, installing artwork, or collaborating on a community event, Andrea resides in Peacham with her husband on an off-grid homestead. Andrea also is a singer, and performs with local folk band Rake Factory Union.

E-mail: acampbell@catamountarts.org

Anne started working with Catamount Arts as a consultant in 2012 to help the Arts Education Committee design a program for children in grades K-8. She was hired to implement the program in 2013. Her background in arts administration, education, and community development includes working in a variety of positions with two local arts councils, managing a 200-member community chorus, overseeing marketing and PR for an opera company, designing and directing afterschool programs, working in alumni relations and development, directing a downtown revitalization program, and working as a children’s librarian. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Smith College, and a master’s in community education from Goddard College.

Anne develops and promotes classes, workshops, camps and artist residencies for all ages. She recruits and hires teaching artists and oversees class registrations. She drafts grant proposals and reports, and develops tracking and evaluation systems. Anne supervises part-time staff, interns, and volunteers. She collaborates with community partners on festivals and arts initiatives such as PoemTown St. Johnsbury. She is co-chair of the New England Teaching Artist Collaborative and an active member of the Vermont Community Arts Education Council. Anne loves to dance, hike, and play percussion and ukulele. She lives in St. Johnsbury.

E-mail: avanzandt@catamountarts.org

Ashley lives in Lyndonville with her husband, two children, Colin and Amelia, dog Quinn, and cat Luca. After graduating from Lyndon Institute, Ashley earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Lyndon State College in 2009, then taught Kindergarten and worked at St. Johnsbury Pediatrics before joining the Catamount Arts team in August 2016. When she’s not at Catamount events, volunteering at HOPE in Lyndonville, or hanging out with her kiddos, Ashley enjoys reading, traveling, making collages and scrapbooks, and photography.

Ashley currently handles the majority of the fundraising for events such as the Levitt AMP St. Johnsbury Music Series and First Night North. She works with the marketing team to develop print, social, and press materials, and manages the marketing timeline for events including our two annual raffles, KCP Presents, our Annual Auction and Gala, and our annual appeal and report. As the First Night North Coordinator, Ashley not only works with local businesses on sponsorships for the event, but she manages all marketing materials, and is the main event contact on New Year’s Eve.

E-mail: aroberts@catamountarts.org

Ashli Roberts joined the Catamount Arts team in 2017 after volunteering as a stagehand for the first Levitt AMP summer concert series at Dog Mountain. Inspired by her growing passion for live event production, she went on to study Music Business & Industry at Northern Vermont University, graduating in 2021.

Since then, Ashli has played a central role on the production team and has helped bring hundreds of events to life throughout the Northeast Kingdom and beyond. Her work has supported a wide range of performances, festivals, and concert series, including KCP Presents, Levitt AMP at Dog Mountain and St. Johnsbury Final Fridays, Newport’s Wednesdays on the Waterfront, and more.

Alongside her work in live events, Ashli has become increasingly involved in Catamount’s visual arts programming. She assists with exhibition planning and installation for the Fried Family Gallery and Rankin Gallery, and serves as Gallery Manager for The Satellite Gallery in Lyndonville.

Outside of Catamount, Ashli is a practicing artist who enjoys painting, sewing, and spending time with her dog, Ramona.

E-mail: achamberlain@catamountarts.org

Autumn Chamberlain joined the Catamount Arts team in 2021 as an education intern, helping out with anything related to music and/or teaching. This included summer camps, live shows, EPIC Music, and Open Stage. In past years, Autumn has participated in various Catamount events, such as performing live music at First Night, and enjoyed working behind the scenes after experiencing firsthand the on-stage operation.

Autumn graduated from Northern Vermont University – Lyndon in May 2022. She finished with her bachelor’s degree in Music Business and Industry, double concentrating in self-promotion and audio production. She grew up in the NEK and has been involved in music for almost as long. Autumn started learning the piano at the age of five and has added a myriad of instruments to her toolbox since. She now performs live music sets by herself, with her sisters, or with other musicians, as well as writes, records, produces, and distributes her own original music. Aside from music, Autumn enjoys ultimate frisbee, cooking, and baking.

Email: bjohnson@catamountarts.org

Bri Johnson joined Catamount Arts in September 2025 as Artist Residency Assistant, supporting our 560 Railroad Community Artist Residency program. She welcomes residents to town from across the country, assists with their workshops, events, and open studios, and helps meet the day-to-day needs of the residency with care and resourcefulness.

Bri graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in Printmaking, and later earned her Master’s in Library Science from the University of Rhode Island, combining her love of literature and the humanities with fine arts. Born and raised in Lamoille County, she now lives in the old village schoolhouse in East St Johnsbury, where she is slowly creating a home with a library and an art studio.

E-mail: cjillette@catamountarts.org

Campbell can always be found where the music is. His internship with Catamount Arts is just a small piece of a full resume, both on and off the stage.

Campbell is a junior at NVU – Lyndon, working towards a degree in Music Business and Industry with a focus in audio production. When he’s not behind the soundboard for Catamount, he can be found working tech at the Alexander Twilight Theater on campus, or teaching his fellow students as the Production Manager for the MEISA club. As well as interning with Catamount, Campbell is also the Open Stage Program Assistant on Friday nights. When he isn’t working, he’s still making music–sometimes solo, sometimes with bands locally or back home in Conway, NH. And when he’s not making music, you can find him hiking or cooking.

E-mail: cnockels@catamountarts.org

Christine joined Catamount in 2022 as the Youth Programs Assistant.
Christine graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, with a BFA in illustration. She has partially completed degrees in mortuary science and MLIS.

In LA, Christine worked in various creative positions, including animation clean-up, puppet builder and wrangler, set designer, theater production, and freelance illustrator. Her illustration work has been exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles such as The Hive Gallery, Hyaena, and La Luz De Jesus.

Christine is employed full time as the atelierista at a Reggio-Emilia inspired children’s school serving ages 3 mos to 5 years. At Catamount, she leads sessions of our afterschool CatCH program, Community Arts Club, offering kid’s art workshops, and also works in the box office.

She regularly volunteers at Kingdom Animal Shelter, and has fostered over 50 cats.

When not at work, Christine’s hobbies include thrifting, spending time with her rescue animals, attending frog concerts, and collecting unfinished degrees.

E-mail: production@kcppresents.org

Catamount Arts/KCP Presents production manager Derek Campbell, has been a driving force on the local Northeast Kingdom music scene for the past two decades. Over the years Derek has acted as talent buyer/promoter/audio engineer for several NEK venues, and collaborated with fellow promoters on a variety of events. He operates Lyndonunderground Studio where he has recorded a variety of albums and EPs for local and regional artists, spots for National Public Radio, and a series of best selling audio books for Steven Huneck’s “Sally Goes To…” children’s book collection.

Derek can be seen performing regularly at venues around New England as a solo act as well as with bands, StarratS, Subject To Change, and Electric Sorcery, for whom he is the vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and record producer. Derek is a graduate of Lyndon State College’s Music Business and Industry program where he earned his Bachelor’s degree, graduating summa cum laude, in May 2015. He currently works as adjunct instructor at Northern Vermont University where he teaches Guitar, Rock & Roll Form and Style, and other music related courses. Derek co-founded and directed the very popular Rock & Roll Recording Summer Camp for teenagers at NVU Lyndon.

As Catamount Arts/KCP Presents Production Manager, he supervises a crew of college interns, guiding them in hands-on learning of sound and light engineering, and overall event production. Derek is also a visual artist working in paint, ink, mixed media, and photography, as well as producing music videos, instructional videos, and more. He can be seen acting in a variety of student/amateur films. Derek is the proud father of two very talented and motivated teenagers, singer/songwriter, actress and student of musical theater, Irie, and web-streaming gamer/comedian, Felix. To see his work visit Derekcampbellart.com

E-mail: eknarey@catamountarts.org

E-mail: jfried@catamountarts.org

Jody Fried has been the Executive Director of Catamount Film & Arts in St. Johnsbury since 2008. Jody began his career in Colorado working in healthcare management for a large national corporation before deciding to move back home to Vermont in 1998. His work in the rural Northeast Kingdom, as both an entrepreneur and as a volunteer, has included owning multiple private businesses and serving as the current President of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Kingdom Collaborative, as a Corporator of both Passumpsic Bank and the Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital, and as the past President of both the Burke Area Chamber of Commerce and the Northeast Kingdom Travel and Tourism Association.

Jody has also served in various statewide leadership roles including as the current Chair of the Vermont Creative Network, Director of the Vermont Leadership Institute at the Snelling Center for Government, as a Governor-appointed member of the Vermont Travel and Recreation Council, Trustee of Community Heart and Soul, as well as having previously served as a founding member of the Vermont Tax Advisory Board.

E-mail: mbryan@catamountarts.org

Martin has been a St. Johnsbury resident for most of his adult life. He was raised in Western Massachusetts, and is a 1969 graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University with a B.S. in education. He is a former elementary school teacher and has been on the staff of Catamount Arts since the early 2000s; formerly he was a volunteer.

As an avid collector of vintage sound recordings and related ephemera, Martin has a profound appreciation for history and the need for its preservation. He is a former president of the St. Johnsbury Historical Society, and he currently serves as secretary of the St. Johnsbury History and Heritage Center.

In addition to being the Membership Coordinator, Martin’s duties include Box Office back-up, curating the video rental collection, booking Catamount’s facilities for public use, etc. He likes to think of himself as Catamount’s oldest intern!

E-mail: mstone@catamountarts.org

Molly Stone is a powerhouse producer, creative leader, and passionate arts advocate with a knack for turning bold ideas into unforgettable events. As Artistic Director at Catamount Arts, she curates and produces 50+ events annually, ranging from major concerts to intimate listening experiences, all designed to bring communities together through the arts.

She leads the Levitt AMP St. Johnsbury Music Series, part of a national network of free outdoor concerts supported by the Los Angeles-based Levitt Foundation. In addition to producing and emceeing the series at Dog Mountain, Molly also serves on the Levitt Convening & Resources Steering Committee, helping shape network-wide strategies and grantee support.

Molly also plays a key role in producing First Night North, One of Vermont’s largest single-day arts celebration, and co-creates community-rooted programming like Final Friday and the Vermont edition of the Scottish Master Workshop, School of Dàimh.

Also a gallery director, creative economy advocate, and global collaborator in rural music policy, Molly’s work bridges local culture with national networks, all while keeping the beat going in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.

E-mail: odavie@catamountarts.org

Owen has been an employee of Catamount Arts for six years, having begun as an intern while studying Music Business at Northern Vermont University, before transitioning onto staff following the successful culmination of his studies. Owen currently works as the Associate Director of Marketing and Communications, operating as the graphic designer for Catamount Arts, as well as handling the creation and dissemination of Catamount’s promotional materials, both digitally and in print, as well as collaborating with other area organizations to co-produce and market regional events.

Owen continues to broaden his ability and skill set with relation to communications and design software, as well as develop a more nuanced understanding of contemporary marketing strategies.

E-mail: pblack@catamountarts.org

Patrick started working for Catamount straight out of college in the summer of 1987, eventually becoming the chief projectionist and part time box office. When he came back from Arizona, where he ended his time at Lake Powell Resorts and Marinas as Front Office Manager of the Wahweap Lodge, he returned to being the chief projectionist as well as being full time in the box office.

Currently Patrick is responsible for creating content for and maintaining the ticketing system, maintaining the Catamount websites, handling email communications with customers, and maintaining/building relationships with our presenting partners. He also oversees Catamount’s two theaters, managing content (film, satellite, and DVDs), maintaining equipment, and providing technical support to the staff.

E-mail: rnunn@catamountarts.org

Rose started working at Catamount Arts in April of 2019 and is responsible for the indoor and outdoor cleaning, care, and beautification of the Catamount Arts building. She lives in Peacham, VT with her husband, their two dogs (Misty and Arlo) and cat (Bruno). Rose previously worked at the Peacham School as the After School Assistant. In the summertime she loves to be outdoors, camping, swimming, fishing and riding her four wheeler on her land. Rose is accomplished in hand arts, including felting, sewing, and crocheting. In the winter Rose loves to ice fish, and make maple syrup in their family sugar house.

E-mail: samos@catamountarts.org

Sarah grew up in the Northeast Kingdom and has been a great lover of the arts since childhood. She began performing professionally as a singer with her father Bob Amos when she was in 8th grade at St. Johnsbury School and has continued to perform locally, regionally, and nationally ever since.

After attending high school at St. Johnsbury Academy, she spent four years studying at New College of Florida where she also worked as a Music Theory TA and Choral Director. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in May of 2015 and began working at Catamount Arts the following fall. In 2017 she was accepted into the Vermont Leadership Institute and graduated the following spring.
Sarah currently lives in the Stark District in her grandparents’ old house with her partner Owen, her Bernese Mountain Dog Bash, and her cat Fritzeen.

As Director of Operations, Sarah’s primary responsibility is coordinating and managing the day-to-day operations of the Arts Center, Box Office, and Catamount’s ArtPort venue. She manages front of house operations and staff for all live events, including KCP Presents, Levitt Amp, and ArtPort performances. Additionally, she coordinates the Annual Auction for the Arts. Grateful for all she has learned from her work so far, Sarah hopes to continue expanding her role as a leader at Catamount Arts and make a lasting positive impact in the community.

E-mail: tmikovitz@catamountarts.org

Tim has directed the lighting and sound for our KCP Presents Performing Arts Series since we started in 2009. His full-time job is as the Director of Theaters and Programming at NVU. Tim has spent decades in the industry including as Director of Production for the Wanderlust Tour where he oversaw a multi-million dollar technical budget and a staff of over a hundred technicians. Tim’s expertise will be critical as we continue to expand our production support services and use of the mobile stage throughout the region.