Staff & Board

Laura Karlin

Artistic Director

Laura Karlin founded Invertigo Dance Theatre in 2007. She works to make Invertigo a vibrant Los Angeles institution through its imaginative performances and wonderful outreach programming. Click here to read more about her on her Artist's Page.
David Mack

Executive Director

David Mack has a decade of experience leading some of LA’s most adventurous performing arts companies in the fields of theatre, opera, and dance. He has served as Strategic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance, General Manager and Managing Director of The Industry, and Managing Director of Watts Village Theater Company. In addition, he has consulted for many arts and arts service organizations throughout LA, including: the City of West Hollywood, Center Theatre Group, L.A. Dance Project, DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion, Ate9 Dance Company, the Dance Resource Center, MULTIPLEX Dance and the Clown School.

Throughout his career, Mack has collaborated with a variety of LA institutions, including: the LA Opera, Hammer Museum, Watts Towers Arts Center, Ford Theatres JAM Sessions, Grand Performances, LA Poverty Department, Wild Up, LA Convention Center, LA Tourism & Convention Board, The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Metro LA Boys & Girls Clubs and Green Dot Public Schools. In addition, Mack has served as Chairman of the Board of LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas' Empowerment Congress Arts & Culture Committee, the Boards of the Theatrical Producer's League of Los Angeles and Dance Resource Center, and as a member of the Dance/USA LA 2018 Annual Conference Host Committee and Ate9 Dance Company Advisory Council. Mack is currently on the Black Arts @ WAA Committee for Western Arts Alliance's 2019 annual conference in LA.

As Executive Director of Invertigo Dance Theatre, Mack’s goal is to support the company’s efforts in making a positive impact on LA’s diverse communities in this new 21st-century environment.
K. Bradford

Community Programs Manager

K. Bradford is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and cultural innovator who believes in converting everyday stories, metaphors and public spaces into brave, imaginative acts of change. Over the last fifteen years, K. has founded transformational community-based arts programs including: Gender Fusions, a large-scale annual queer spectacle + cultural dialogue at Columbia College Chicago; The Raw Works, a story and performance program for low-income and homeless LGBTQIA youth in Chicago; It’s a She-Shoot, a feminist writing + video program for marginalized women and girls in Austin; and White-Out: the outing of whiteness, a documentary film and anti-racism project.

Since moving to LA, K. founded One Mile, an arts + social justice program that works with communities to poetically re-imagine the problems of our times through immersive public art installations, and more recently, Qumanity, an art + liberation program for LGBTQIA youth in LA. K. has taught at Antioch University, Santa Monica College, and for eight years taught poetry and literature at Columbia College where they also worked as the Coordinator of the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community. K. teaches woodworking to kids on a magic school-bus-turned-wood-shop for Side Street Projects.

K.’s writing has appeared in publications such as the LA Review of Books,Viralnet.net, Slag Glass City, Trop, Gulf Coast, and Web del Sol. K. has received scholarships from the Fulbright Foundation, Tin House Writers Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. K. holds an MFA in Writing and in Art + Technology from CalArts.
Michael Rebong

Operations and Production Manager

Operations and Production Manager Michael Rebong, is Invertigo's forth full-time employee. He has worked with us since January of 2016. He is originally from San Jose, California and graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in Psychology. Michael has always had a passion for the arts and has worked with multiple arts organizations over the course of his career, both in the office and on stage as a b-boy. Michael enjoys studying guitar and aerial rope in his spare time.
Leslie Scott

Producing and Touring Director

Leslie Scott has worked for Jodi Kaplan & Associates as the International Project Manager for the past four years, overseeing the agency’s touring projects. As an International producer Scott continues her work from the booking DANCE FESTIVAL Beijing 2008, which coincided with the summer Olympics, to the Edinburgh Festival 2010 – the present 2015.

Leslie Scott is the founder and artistic director of BODYART a NYC&LA based contemporary dance theater company. Founded in 2006 BODYART has enjoyed performances across the globe, most notably at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), Ailey Citigroup Theater (NYC), The Joyce Soho (NYC), 3LD Art & Technology Center (NYC) and the Bass Performance Hall (TX). Scott opened BODYART Studio in April 2010. This 1800 sq/ft arts space based in Long Island City, NY provides reduced fee rehearsal space for NYC artists. Scott won through support from the Queens Arts Council in praise of her PILLAR program. This program places a premium on the creative process rather than the product, giving free rehearsal space to local Queens based artists.

As an interdisciplinary artist Ms Scott also holds a degree in photography that greatly spaces her work compositionally. She has worked with world-renowned dance photographer Lois Greenfield and was the staff photographer for the American Dance Festival in 2005. Ms Scott has developed an active collaboration with underwater photo artist, Chris Crumley.

Ms Scott is also a certified sommelier and enjoys bringing her love of viticulture into her other artistic practices.
Linda Berghoff

Board Member, Dancing Through Parkinson's teacher

Linda Gattegno Berghoff graduated UCLA summa cum laude, with an undergraduate major in Spanish and French, a minor in Italian, and a graduate degree in Early Childhood Education and Bilingual Education. She worked in the Los Angeles Unified School District, both as a teacher, a Bilingual Coordinator, and as a Mentor-Teacher. After retiring from LAUSD, Linda began a private practice, tutoring university students in Spanish and French. Throughout her life, Linda has had a passion for music and dance, performing in high school and college plays, musicals, and recitals. When she was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2006, Linda feared that PD would bring an end to her ability to take dance classes--her most beloved activity. However, while in New York visiting her children, Linda learned of the Mark Morris Dance for PD program. She participated in Dance for PD workshops for teacher training, both in Brooklyn and in Los Angeles, and is now proud to collaborate with Invertigo Dance Theatre to bring its Dancing Through Parkinson's program to Los Angeles. This invaluable dance program brings, body awareness, balance, rhythm, and especially, joy to its participants with PD. Linda continues to take dance and Pilates classes, and her health continues to be robust (which she credits to her dance and movement regimen...). Linda is also very active as a board/committee member and mentor for the American DIabetes Association. As an an avid supporter of the arts, Linda is proud to also serve on Invertigo's board, to help bring its unique, spirited, and thoughtful artistic dance aesthetic and outreach to the Los Angeles community.

Board Members

Gloria Bradbury

Board Member

Driven by adventure and continuous learning, Gloria has cultivated a diverse skill set in strategy, marketing and operations, which she has applied to help increase efficiency and effectiveness in different company structures; from a boutique logistics company for the fine arts and antique market, to the global audit and advisory firm, PwC, working internationally. She attributes this flexibility and rigor to her dual training in business and the arts (dance/theatre/film).

Currently, she is using her analytical expertise in strategy and franchise development to help turnaround an iconic restaurant brand. In parallel, she is exercising her strong sense of aesthetic and organization as an independent producer committed to creating poignant and universal stories.

Her journey has taken her from a small town in Hawaii, to obtaining her B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University in NYC, then later graduating with an M.B.A. specializing in Entertainment, from Europe’s top business school, HEC Paris (France), and UCLA Anderson School of Management.

She is grateful for the beauty and spontaneity that the world offers and believes that dance embodies and expresses these qualities, unlike any other creative expression.
Francine Ringold

Board Member

Francine Leffler Ringold (Johnson), Ph.D., was the Poet Laureate of Oklahoma 2003-7 and a 2003 winner of the “Writers Who Make A Difference” award from the nationally distributed Writer Magazine, a Katie Westby Lifetime Award from the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, and a “Sadie” and “Newsmaker” Award from Women in Communications. Her name is also synonymous in the minds of many with Nimrod, the international literary journal that she edited and championed for over 47 years.

Fran’s published work ranges from poems to plays to guides for creative writing and includes: Still Dancing: New & Selected Poems, and The Trouble with Voices, both winners of the Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry, 1996, 2004; Every Other One, 2001, a collaborative venture with her husband, poet Manly Johnson; Voices, 1981; prize-winning plays, including one-woman presentations based on the lives of Mercy Otis Warren and Isadora Duncan; and two volumes detailing her creative writing approach, with examples from her students: A Magic Journey: Writing and Painting at Gatesway (a school for persons with developmental disabilities), and Making Your Own Mark: A Guide to Writing and Drawing for Senior Citizens (with art therapist, Madeline Rugh, Ph.D.) She has just published a memoir: from Birth To Birth: a Memoir and Guide to Writing Your Memoir, 2016. Fran has also won several playwriting contests so long ago that she can’t remember the year, and is currently working on a play called “Family Theater.” Another play “Kicking Up Her Heels” was produced in 2014.

A devoted teacher, Fran has taught literature, creative writing, and theatre at the University of Tulsa, and in the Oklahoma State Arts in Education and Artists in the Schools programs. She has taught in prisons, The Center for the Physically Limited, Gatesway Foundation for the Developmentally Disabled, at Resonance Foundation in a special program for children of parents who are incarcerated, as well as in diverse classrooms in public and private schools.

Fran is the mother of four grown children and four fast-growing grandchildren. She is a sometimes swimmer, a sometimes dancer, and, of course, an acrobat.
Alex Calle

Board Member

Alex takes a unique approach to directing, producing, and design, utilizing his background in theatre to above all, tell a story. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, he has worked on Film, Television, Theater, Themed Entertainment, and Public Art Installations all over the world.

Alex recently served as CEO of Entertainment Design Corporation (EDC), a company comprised of over 30 artists that designs and produces Branding Icon Attractions, Themed Retail Experiences, and Live Shows. In recent years, Alex worked on installing two 20-million-dollar Branding Icon Attractions for the Galaxy Entertainment group in Macau, and two E-Ticket Dreamworks attractions for Dubai Parks and Resorts’ Motiongate Themepark. Before that, Alex was based in Singapore bringing EDC’s Crane Dance project to life—a 70-million dollar Branding Icon for Resorts WorldSentosa. Alex’s film and television productions include the MTV MovieAwards, Pirates of the Caribbean II and III, and Starz’s Magic City. He has also served as the Art Director and Co-Designer for EDC’s last seven designs for Princess Cruises.

As a theatrical set designer, Calle has designed for a number of renowned regional theatre companies, including The California Shakespeare Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Company, The Cuillo Theatre, Florida Stage, The Kirk Douglas Theatre, and The Colony Theatre. He also served as a resident designer for the Invertigo Dance Theatre since their 2008 season.
Michael Karlin

Board Member

Michael Karlin grew up in several countries. After graduating from Cambridge University in 1973, he became a lawyer in England before moving to California in 1980 and becoming a member of the California Bar. He is a senior partner of the Los Angeles law firm of Karlin & Peebles, LLP and a prolific author and speaker on international tax topics. Since 1981, he has volunteered in multiple roles for American Youth Soccer Organization. He serves as webmaster for the LACMA Docent Council. He speaks several European languages and is fighting a lengthy campaign to learn Japanese. Invertigo opened his eyes to modern dance, although he intends to stay strictly on the audience side of the stage.
Fiona Karlin

Board Member

Fiona Karlin is proud to work with the board members and artists of Invertigo Dance Theatre, and to be very involved in the Dancing Through Parkinson's classes. She admires Laura's choreography and values the opportunity to bring such a creative art form to Los Angeles. She also works as a docent giving tours at LACMA, and is a former chair of the Docent Council.