Ralph Remington

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Remington is currently Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission. He is the former Deputy Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Tempe, AZ. In that capacity he functioned as Artistic Director for the Tempe Center for the Arts. Remington served as the Western Regional Director/Assistant Executive Director of Actors' Equity Association (AEA). The labor union represents 50,000 Actors and Stage Managers of the professional theatre in the United States.

Remington served as the Director for Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts. He was responsible for the grantmaking processes for theater and musical theater, developing partnerships to advance the theater field as a whole, and leading large-scale theater projects such as the NEA's New Play Development Program. He was appointed by NEA chairman and Broadway theatre producer, Rocco Landesman.

In January 2014, Remington become the western regional director for Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors.

Remington has directed, produced and acted in over 50 plays. He served as artistic associate and director of community engagement with Arena Stage, overseeing all of the company's outreach and education programs and a staff of 19, managing a $750,000 budget. While at Arena, he led the Living Stage Theater Company, created and toured a devised work piece called America: Work in Progress, and directed Dael Orlandersmith's critically acclaimed The Gimmick and Talking With by Jane Martin.

In the spring of 2002, Remington directed a production of Amiri Baraka's Dutchman at the Source Theater in Washington.

He was the executive director of the Media Artists Resource Center in St. Paul where he was responsible for fundraising and strategic planning and engineered a successful merger with the Independent Filmmaker Project.

Remington founded Pillsbury House Theatre out of the settlement house tradition of community collaboration. He served as Pillsbury's producing artistic director, managing a $500,000 budget. He also selected and oversaw a four-to-six play annual series; founded Breaking Ice, a touring multiracial, socio-political improv company for youth and adults; and created the Chicago Avenue Project where children write and perform original plays with professional actors. The program received a Coming Up Taller award in 2005. Presented by the First Lady Laura Bush on behalf of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Coming Up Taller awards recognize outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of America's young people. In addition, Remington has directed at Intermedia Arts, Painted Bride Art Center, The Southern Theater and Walker Art Center.

Remington is also a former member of the Guthrie Theater acting company, in Minneapolis, Minnesota with Rainn Wilson in The Venetian Twins.

Remington ran to represent Minneapolis's Ward 10 on the Minneapolis City Council, defeating Scott Persons 55%–45% in the 2005 election to replace retiring incumbent Dan Niziolek. Remington's term began January 2, 2006. He did not run for reelection in 2009 and was succeeded by Meg Tuthill at the end of his term on January 4, 2010.

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drama from Howard University.

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