Brian McCormick is an arts activist, writer, and educator, and the Producing Director of Nicholas Leichter Dance. He is a long-time contributing dance editor for Gay City News, where as arts editor from 2005-2007, he earned the paper a New York Press Association award for arts coverage. McCormick is a Part-time Assistant Professor at The New School in the Media Studies MA program, where he teaches digital performance theory as well as courses in media concepts and design. Since 2003 he has taught Dance TRaC—the Teen Reviewers and Critics program of Arts Connection/High 5 Tickets to the Arts, and in 2009 he began working as a career mentor with dance seniors at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens. He has been a panelist, moderator, guest curator, and/or adjudicator for New York Foundation for the Arts, Joyce Theater Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop, Brooklyn Arts Council, Hunter College Dance Department, Kinetic Cinema, LMCC, Movement Research, The A.W.A.R.D. Show, CMJ Music Marathon, Queer Art Impact, and BETA. He has done marketing, and audience engagement work for the American Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dancing in the Streets, and Scholastic Arts; and reporting work for Dance Theater Workshop and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As a writer, he has contributed to The New York Times, Dance Magazine, Movement Research Journal, Encore publications, Dance Studio Life, and ClassicalTV.com. Brian is a member of the New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies) committee.