Jeremy Paul - Executive Artistic Director

Jeremy Paul is the founder and Executive Artistic Director of Maelstrom Collaborative Arts since 2006. Primarily working in the field of devised theater, Jeremy has led the creation of the original productions Who We Used To Be, Don't Wander Off, Broken Codes, The Turing Machine, The Grand Celebration of the Celestial Mystery, TingleTangle, Code: Preludes, The Excavation, and Marble Cities. He is also the co-creator of the original works The Last Day (with the Maelstrom Cadre), NICK&JEREMY (with Nick Riley), Absence (with Michael Rau) and The Beetlebug and the Bad Worm (with Faye Hargate). Jeremy has also directed the world and regional premieres of many plays in Northeast Ohio, including Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, Stranded on Earth, Black Cat Lost, My Barking Dog, Inoculations and Anna Bella Eema. Jeremy graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut with dual majors in Theater and Film, and has post-graduate training with the Pig Iron Theatre Company, New World Performance Lab and the Celebration Barn International School for the Performing Arts. Jeremy is a recipient of CPAC Creative Workforce Fellowships in 2012 and 2016.

Jasmine A. Golphin - Associate Artistic Director

Jasmine A. Golphin is a visual artist and creative producer from Cleveland Ohio. Her art spans photography, filmmaking, live performance, virtual reality and projection design and often explores themes of existentialism, surrealism, and our current sociological climate, usually in relationship to technology.

Jasmine received her degree in Film and Digital Media from Cleveland State University in 2011 and spent her time in the years since managing film education and community outreach programs for nonprofit organizations such as MyCom, Cleveland International Film Festival, and SPACES gallery. Her visual art has been featured in live performances and installations such as MCA’s Bricolage (2019), Cleveland BLAX MUSEUM (2020), Photo Poets: Visions of Cleveland (2023) and Black Woman (Unintentionally) in Tech (2023);  and the VR experiences Above|Below (2022) and FACEBOOKLAND (2022), which was funded by SPACES' The Satellite Fund through The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program Her latest short film and art installation Welcome to the Panopticon! premiered at MCA in 2024 and was supported by Dobama Theatre’s FOCUS Program, Cleveland Camera Rental’s 2024 Rental Credit Grant, and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grant