Kamal Sinclair supports artists, institutions, and communities working at the convergence of art, media, culture, and technology. Currently, she serves as the Senior Director of Digital Innovation at The Music Center in Los Angeles, which is home to TMC Arts, Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Opera, and LA Phil. The campus includes Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Walt Disney Concert Hall—and beautiful outdoor spaces including Jerry Moss Plaza, The Blue Ribbon Garden, and Grand Park.

Additionally, she serves as an advisor or board member to Peabody Awards interactive Board, For Freedoms, NEW INC.’s ONX Studio, Civic Signals, For Freedoms, MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality, Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation, and Eyebeam. She also teaches as an Adjunct Professor in USC’s Media Arts + Practice program.

Previously, she was the Director of Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Labs Program for seven years, which supports artists working at the convergence of film, art, media, and technology. She partnered with Chief Curator, Shari Frilot, in the development and platforming of landmark projects in the evolution of story, including experimentations with bio media, XR, IoT, and AI as storytelling mediums.

During that period, she consulted for the Ford Foundation's JustFilms program on a multi-year research project aimed at furthering equality in emerging media, which resulted in the landmark work “Making a New Reality,” which has been published through Immerse.news and sparked a four-year speaking tour at some of the most prestigious tech and media companies, philanthropic organizations, academic institutions, and social justice community initiatives.

Additionally, she served as a consultant on Rockefeller Foundation’s Food System Vision Price, External Advisor MacArthur Foundation's Journalism & Media Program, Johns Hopkins University’s Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technology Center, the University of Florida’s College of Art, and NYU Tisch’s Future Imagination Fund.

Sinclair got her start in emerging media as an artist and producer on Question Bridge: Black Males. At Question Bridge, where she and her collaborators launched a project with an interactive website and curriculum; published a book; exhibited in over sixty museums/festivals; won International Center for Photography’s 2015 Infinity Award for New Media; and was archived at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Alicia Payne is a professional actor, writer and facilitator whose acting credits encompass theatre, film, television and radio. Her professional memberships include ACTRA, CAEA, Dramatists Guild of America and Playwrights Guild of Canada, where she served as president.
She is an adaptive facilitator for arts organizations and has toured schools as a performer and facilitator for several theatres, including those that specialize in forum theatre, an interactive tool for social change.

Alicia was heard weekly on "Where Am I?" a contest she developed for Metro Morning on CBC Radio. She is also a singer (mezzo soprano/alto) and was a member of the Nathaniel Dett Chorale for two seasons.

Alicia’s new play development experience includes being an actor/narrator in numerous workshops and readings and bringing new characters to life such as Fatima in A Tender Path and Gwen/Lateesha in Justice for Maurice Henry Carter.

As a writer, she participated in the 2022 Gros Morne Playwrights Residency; 2022 & 2023 Valdez Playwrights Conference in Alaska; and a workshop production of her on-act play PAZ was mounted in the 2023 Toronto Fringe Festival. Alicia is an Alumna of the Playwrights Collective at Theatre Passe Muraille, the Tapestry Opera Composer Librettist Laboratory and the BIPOC TV & Film Kids' TV Writing Bootcamp and Incubator. 

Artist educator credits include leading workshops for Uth Ink/Luminato, Lakeshore Arts graphic novel program SHAZAAM!, Tapestry Opera Youth INside Opera. the Conference of Independent Schools Drama Festival, and Play! A Symposium at the 14th World Festival of Children's Theatre.
Alicia is the audiobook narrator of Flower Diary by Molly Peacock and a co-founder of Arbez Drama Projects, an independent, not-for-profit theatre company with several projects at different stages of development.