Bill Bragin

Executive Artistic Director, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
Co-Founder & Co-Director, GlobalFEST
United Arab Emirates

Bill Bragin is the founding executive artistic director of The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, a “game-changer” (The National) since it began its programs in 2015. Under his leadership, The Arts Center is a winner of the 2018 and 2019 Pride of Abu Dhabi Award, and Bragin has been a finalist twice for Abu Dhabi AmCham's Falcon Individual Award for Excellence.

Bragin is a co-founder of globalFEST, 2018 winner of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals’ (APAP) William Dawson Award for Programmatic Excellence. Previous activities include seriving as Director of Public Programming of NY’s Lincoln Center, Director of Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, as well as roles at Symphony Space, NYNO Records, Central Park SummerStage, and George Wein's Festival Productions, Inc.

Bragin has served as a music advisor for the TED Conferences. He has served as a jury member, advisor, or speaker for acclaimed conferences and organizations including the International Society of the Performing Arts (ISPA), APAP, WOMEX, CenterStage US, Pan African Creative Exchange, Culture Summit Abu Dhabi, MAP Fund, Arts International, National Endowment for the Arts, Performing Arts Market Seoul, and Porto Musical, among others. As “Acidophilus”, he has djed internationally as part of GlobeSonic Sound System.

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