Bisagna Suh is a producer, director, and strategist who has worked at nearly every scale, from a two-hundred-capacity basement venue to the Kennedy Center.
She is drawn to work that does not exist yet, and to subjects most brands and institutions would simplify. Her job is to build the structure, both the story and the operations, that lets an institution handle something complicated in public. She assumes audiences can take more than they usually get. The scale changes; the standard does not.
Bisagna was selected for the inaugural cohort of the Kennedy Center's Cultural Leaders-in-Residence program, where she produced events across the institution and co-founded Field Day, a three-day festival on the REACH campus. She also closed the Center's first corporate cultural partnership. Yo-Yo Ma's Silkroad brought her on to direct during its leadership transition to Rhiannon Giddens. She has since produced for Sony Music, Topo Chico, Westfield, Fender Play Foundation, Comment Magazine, and the Washington National Cathedral. She led global communications for a decentralized arts and technology network spanning four thousand organizers and fifteen hundred institutional partners across six continents. For five years she ran Innervision, the media company she co-founded, growing it to twenty-plus client engagements.
As a director she has made documentaries, concert films, narrative shorts, and music videos. Her narrative work has screened at film festivals. She has made work for a DC punk band and for a chapter of The Links, for Grammy-winning musicians and for Congressional offices.
District Fray named her among its 21 DC Makers and Curators to Follow, and her writing has appeared in the Women's Media Center. She holds a BA in Public Relations and Strategic Communication from American University and is based in the Washington, DC area.