Staff & Board

Angelique N. Kane is a transformational leader and family & community advocate with a deep commitment to empathy, trauma-responsive practices, and culturally-sustaining systems. Since joining Phoenix Center for the Arts as Interim Executive Director in April 2025, she has led the development of key administrative systems and implemented truth and reconciliation strategies to strengthen community relationships. With a passion for inclusive leadership and creative collaboration, Angelique believes that “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” She is dedicated to ensuring the Center remains a vibrant, welcoming space for all.

From an early age Lauren has been volunteering and working with Nonprofits on everything from grant writing to cleaning the highway. She was part of several organizations working toward a brighter future for her home state of Colorado. After graduation she made her way to Phoenix and away from the snow in 2010. Since living here Lauren has been part of several nonprofit organizations including Race for the Cure and Ignite Hope for the Phoenix Children’s Hospital and is currently President of the PTO for her daughters school. She is excited to be back in the nonprofit world full time and to help bring so much light and color to the world. At home Lauren can be found reading a ton of fantasy books, baking bread, building puzzles and raising a future starving artist.

Esteban Rosales is a multidisciplinary performance artist from Phoenix, Arizona. He is a descendant of Mesoamerican ancestry, and an artist of the LGBTQ+ community. Infatuated by his high school’s dance team during a freshman pep-rally at fourteen, his existence is forever influenced by the form. He completed a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Dance at Arizona State University, where he’d further cultivate his passion for dance as a profound art.

The foundation of his performance training consists of studio-oriented hip-hop. He refined this movement practice at ASU; training in forms such as locking, vogue femme, house, and popping. During his final four semesters, he expanded his practice towards Postmodern Contemporary techniques, Classical Ballet, and Commercial Jazz – which were far less familiar to him at the time. He self-identifies as the spitting image of the jack of all trades: master of none. Nonetheless, he finds peace playing the jack of all trades, than the master of one. As of 2025, he is performing with Safos Dance Theatre, the Charlie’s Show Dancers, and The Pachanga Collective; a collective of 6 dance makers in Arizona, which he co-founded with Ruby Morales, and Zakiya Rose Johnson.

As a visionary, a creator, a dance-maker, he values abstraction as much as the glitz of performance – drawing inspiration from existential nihilism, glamour, and absurdity. Within Arizona, his work has been showcased for the Phoenix Blaktinx Dance Festival, Ten Tiny Dances at Taliesin West, nueBOX’s SEED Residency, Breaking Ground, and the Third Space Dance Project. He made his official out-of-state debut at Disco Riot’s 2024 Queer Movement Fest in San Diego, California.

He is also a professional lighting board operator, designer, and electrician. Learning the basics during his time at ASU, he furthered his growth working at Tempe Center for the Arts, Arizona Theatre Company, Southwest Ballet Theatre, and Phoenix Center for the Arts. Although lighting is his primary passion within technical theatre, he is also well versed in stage managing, audio/visual, costume design, and fly rails. You can count on seeing something a little extra in his own works as a result.

He is forever grateful to his mentors Mary Fitzgerald, Eileen Standley, Nicole Bradley Browning, Liz Lerman, Melissa Britt, and Carolyn Koch, for helping him cultivate his earliest artistic voice, and preparing him for his career.

Cadel started with Phoenix Center for the Arts during the summer of 2019 as a theater intern. Since then, Cadel has served as the Center’s Technical Coordinator, and most recently as the Campus Manager. Cadel has a background in theatre performance, audiovisual systems, and production studio work. As an advocate for live entertainment, Cadel enjoys being able to work closely with producers and artists to bring their imagination to life on stage. Cadel is grateful to work with the Center and is always looking forward to what’s happening next.

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Erik has been involved with the Phoenix Art and Design communities for the last 23 years. 10 years as an Instructor, 13 years in the print industry, and all the while working on various commissions and pieces for gallery showings.

A believer in the quote “Doing something leads to inspiration, more so, than inspiration leads to doing something.” – unknown; has led to many projects.

Erik is looking forward to working with the PCA and utilizing his various skill sets to assist the Phoenix creative community.