2026-2027
Advisory Committee Members
Kprecia Ambers
Kprecia Ambers is a Minneapolis-based digital illustrator and founder of Kp Inspires, a visual art and storytelling studio inspiring possibility through vibrant illustration and uplifting stories. Her work captures expression and celebrates Black beauty, culture, resilience, joy, and the many ways art connects with people.
Kprecia is passionate about seeing illustration move beyond traditional spaces and into everyday life—from gallery walls and prints to home goods, packaging, cards, campaigns, and more. Through her work, she hopes to create moments that invite reflection, celebration, and joy while allowing people to connect with a story in their own way.
She has collaborated with organizations including Alina Health’s Mother Baby Center and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, creating work centered on representation and social impact.
A North Minneapolis native, Kprecia grew up going to the Capri Theater, making her opportunity to serve as an advisory board member especially meaningful. She is excited to contribute to a space that has been part of her community and childhood.
Tiffany Cooper
Tiffany is a multi-disciplinary Broadway and Film Performing Artist, Educator, Executive Public Speaking and Life Coach, and Podcast Host. She has performed across the U.S. and in 15 countries, with highlights including Broadway’s Tony-nominated Bombay Dreams, Fences, and Porgy and Bess, as well as her self-produced solo recording Satin Mood.
As an arts educator, she creates curriculum, workshops, and masterclasses nationwide. Tiffany serves on the Board of Theater Latte Da, school boards in Kentucky, arts councils in Minnesota, and social justice initiatives at Westminster Church, advancing arts access and leadership. She holds degrees in Speech Communications, Theatre, and Dance from Murray State University and coaches leaders to communicate with authenticity, presence, and impact.
Daphne
Daphne is a strategic advisor and cultural producer with more than 20 years of experience connecting the arts, culture, civic engagement, and community. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Capri Advisory Council.
Through her consulting practice, Daphne develops strategic partnerships and leads special initiatives, public programs, and organizational projects. Her current and recent work includes Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA), Minnesota Museum of American Art, and American Craft Council. Over the course of her career, she has worked with organizations including HBO, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Amnesty International, New York University, The New School, The America Project, and the Hip-Hop Theater Festival. At HBO, she led national education outreach initiatives for The Black List, The Latino List, and The Women’s List, building partnerships with Scholastic, Target, NPR, PBS.
Daphne is also a self-taught clay-maker whose studio practice explores the connections between clay, farming, cooking, and the table.
Maija García
An accomplished artistic leader, director, producer, curator, educator, and advocate for equity in the arts, Maija brings decades of experience across the performing arts industry—from Broadway and international festivals to film, television, and regional theater.
John Hardy
John Hardy is a leadership development strategist with more than 15 years of experience at a Fortune 100 organization. He designs and leads programs that help leaders build the mindset, skillset, and self-awareness needed to lead inclusive, high-performing teams.
John is currently exploring opportunities to extend his work across organizations and communities, with a focus on advancing leadership effectiveness and inclusive workplace cultures.
Greg Jameel
Greg Jameel, also known artistically as Greg Grease, is a Minneapolis-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, and community builder. His creative work explores identity, place, family, and legacy through music, visual art, design, and storytelling.
He is also the Executive Director of the Solomon Hughes Sr. Golf Academy, where he leads youth development work centered on mentorship, confidence, and creating opportunities for young people to grow and contribute to their communities. Across his creative and professional work, Greg is committed to building meaningful experiences that connect people, culture, and community.
Beck Lee
A playwright and media relations advisor for the arts, Beck is the founder of the Cultural Fluency Initiative, a Twin Cities non-profit that promotes cross-cultural understanding and collaboration between divergent groups.
Over the years, he has worked with arts organizations in theater, film, social impact investing and sustainable development. His New York-based clients include the indigenous-feminist theater company Spiderwoman; the NY Irish Center (in Long Island City); and the National Yiddish Theatre Folkbiene.
A native New Yorker, Beck relocated to the Twin Cities in 2018, the year his play, “Subprime,” premiered at the Mixed Blood Theatre.
Christopher Schout
A seasoned entrepreneur, marketer, producer, and arts advocate, Mr. Schout brings decades of experience spanning successful business ventures, Broadway production, branding, and the arts, including as a Tony Award–winning producer of Hadestown.
Scott Morris
Scott A. Morris is Founder & CEO of The Morris Edge Coaching, LLC, where he partners with executives and global organizations as an executive and organizational wellbeing coach and facilitator. He serves as a member of the Capri Theater Advisory Board and as Board Chair of the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, both serving North Minneapolis communities and beyond.
With deep expertise in Inclusion & Belonging, Learning & Development, and Talent Strategy, Scott helps leaders and organizations build resilience and create the competitive edge to thrive. He also serves on numerous advisory and governing boards, including Deese College of Business at North Carolina A&T State University, Michigan State University’s DEI Advisory Council, Chair of Programs, International Black Coaches Alliance, Governor Walz MLK Planning Council, and BestPrep.
Nora Montañez-Patterson
Nora Montañez Patterson is an Afro-descendent Indigenous Peruvian Playwright, Director, Actor, Arts Administrator and Theater Educator based in Mni Sota Makoce (Minnesota).
She was raised in Paterson, NJ and holds a BFA from Florida Atlantic University. In Minneapolis, Nora has performed at Theatre Latte Da, Pillsbury House + Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, The Guthrie Theater, Theatre Mu and Mixed Blood to name a few.
Nora has directed various productions including Stages Theater Company, Exposed Brick Theater, Pillsbury House Theatre’s Chicago Avenue Project and Minnesota Opera’s Project Opera. As a Curriculum Developer, Nora facilitated the creation of the Art of Consent cards with Upstream Art, developed a Bilingual theater program with Minneapolis Public Schools and developed the pedagogy Decolonizing the Artists which has been facilitated at the Guthrie Theater’s BFA Program, Ordway Center, Center for the Performing Artists and Exposed Brick Theater.
Nora is also the Founder of ALMA (Alliance of Latine Minnesota Artists). Her work has been recognized as a 2018 Next Step Grant recipient, a 20/21 Many Voices Mentee at the Playwrights Center, a 21/22 Creative Support Grant recipient, the 21/22 Artist-in-Residence with the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota and a Avanzando Liderazgo Fellow with LatinoLead. Nora’s extensive work has been honored in the Yo. Un Latino en Minnesota by MLatino Media.
Arame Sy
Arame Maxine Sy (b. 2007) is a Black, emerging, interdisciplinary, and contemporary artist. They come from a Black Mississippian and Indigenous Senegalese blended family, and these rich lineages appear in their work.
They work between mediums and materials depending on what their hands “want” to do, but often find themselves in collage, assemblage, sculpture, poetry writing, and performing arts. Sy is focused on tacitly using these modes as portals of art-making. They are hypnotised by Black fable, history, habit, and love, that drives their creation as an archival love-making process.
Sy is currently preparing for university in 2027 working as contemporary arts apprentice at Juxtaposition Arts, working under contemporary artist Namir Fearce, and previously Cameron Downey.
Zola Dee Williams
Zola Dee is a playwright, screenwriter, and performer whose works are deeply invested in exploring Black Americana, African diasporic religions, and imagining freer worlds for the Black collective body. Her plays include GUNSHOT MEDLEY, Smile, Goddamnit, Smile, and [Home]going. Other accomplishments include: 2025 – 2028 Jerome Hill Fellow, 2023 I Am Soul National Black Theater Resident Playwright, Jerome Fellow 2022-2023, Many Voices Fellow 2021-2022.
As an artist and arts advocate, Zola currently serves as a Program Officer at the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, she holds a BFA in Acting with a minor in Creative Writing. She is currently represented by Lizzy Weingold at WME and managed by Stefan Rich.
For more information go to www.zoladee.com