Olivia Woodford
Director
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Olivia joined the HAND team in March 2008 as its new director. She brings 25 years of arts experience and a background in developing models for using art as a tool for health and well-being.
As a theatre artist, she directed and performed in regional and off off Broadway. Recently, she served as Development Director for Revels in Boston, MA and was the Director of Staff Development at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA. At Kripalu, Olivia created and led programs for staff and guests on cultivating well-being through creativity and authentic self-expression.
The founder of Healing Theatre, Olivia created twenty-five original productions in Asheville, NC and Lenox, MA. She has taught theatre, creativity and mythology in public and private schools and to people of all ages. She developed four one-woman plays portraying the women of the gospels that she continues to tour across the country to churches of all denominations.
Utilizing the medium of theatre and storytelling, Olivia facilitates people in identifying themselves within world stories and articulating their personal story as a means of generating mindfulness and awareness of the mind/body connection. As an administrator, artist and teacher, Olivia continues to provide innovative and safe ways for people to have an intimate experience with what they hold sacred.
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Betty Haskin
Eye Center Visual Arts Coordinator
since 1996
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Betty has worked as a professional artist for over 25 years and is involved in all phases of presenting and exhibiting the visual arts at the Eye Center. She enjoys the challenge of developing programs and making the arts accessible to people who are visually impaired
In 1998-99 she developed and administered the Able Arts North Carolina/Japan Exchange Project, an international project to support the creative work of students who are blind or visually impaired. The project is documented in the 30-minute video, Exceptional Vision.
Betty serves on the board for the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, and is a member of that organization’s consulting service. She is also a member of AHA, Arts in Healthcare Advocates, a think tank of leaders in the field.
Before coming to Duke Betty taught art history and studio art at the college level and privately. Betty continues to paint and maintains a studio in her home. Several of her paintings are in the collection of Duke Medical Center.
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Sam Morrison
Visual Arts Coordinator
since 1979
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Sam has a BA in Art from North Carolina Central University. In his 30 years with HAND, he has hung over 2,000 original works of art, installed over 1,500 exhibits and either facilitated or coordinated over 30 annual employee art shows. He has worked with almost every hospital department and has engaged thousands of patients from around the world. A free-lance cartoonist for 50 years, many of his cartoons can be found on HAND manuals and brochures. Like all arts in healthcare administrators, he believes that what he does treats the soul while the doctors treat the body.
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Grey Brown
Literary Arts Coordinator
since 1986
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Grey co-founded the literary arts program for HAND in 1986. She began offering the literary arts in a medical setting as a graduate student at New York University when she assisted poet Sharon Olds teaching creative writing at Goldwater Memorial Hospital.
Grey gives presentations locally and nationally on the role of the literary arts and on creating literary arts programming in health care settings. A visiting lecturer teaching creative writing in the Duke English department, she has also served as a writer-in-the-schools.
She is the author of Staying In, winner of the North Carolina Writers’ Network Harper Prints Poetry Contest. Her forthcoming chapbook of poetry, When They Tell Me, Finishing Line Press, will be released in 2009, and her first full length collection, What It Takes, Turning Point Press, will be released in 2010.
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Erin Dangler
Performing Arts Coordinator
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Erin Dangler has been performing for most of her life. Erin grew up in Philadelphia
where she performed in community theatre throughout junior high and high
school. Graduating from Denison University with a B.A. in Theatre, Erin
toured nationally with the Cleveland Signstage Theatre in the acclaimed
Children of a Lesser God as both an actress and an American Sign Language
Interpreter. Erin has owned and operated performing arts businesses in
three different parts of the country, teaching young performers the art
of musical theatre. She has also directed and choreographed dozens of
musicals, summer camps and revues. All throughout, Erin has been acting
both onstage and in front of the camera in commercials, movies and industrials.
When not onstage or on camera, Erin can be found at local fitness facilities
teaching yoga and pilates. This is Erin’s first job with the performing
arts and health care and she is thrilled to blend her love of the arts
with a desire to serve.
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