Staff

GALA Choruses is managed under an association management contract with Godfrey Consulting LLC. The individuals shown below are Godfrey Consulting LLC staff assigned to the GALA Choruses account.

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Robin Godfrey
Executive Director
Robin is a native of western Pennsylvania and a long-time lover of choral music. Her professional background is in accounting and finance and Robin worked as a financial consultant to GALA Choruses for two years prior to being appointed Executive Director in February 2007. Send Robin an email.
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Jane Ramseyer Miller
Artistic Director
Jane Ramseyer Miller has served as GALA Choruses’ Artistic Director since 2010, designing programming for four GALA Festivals in this role. She also served on the GALA Choruses board of directors and has been active in supporting the organization’s mission of utilizing music as a tool for social change and promoting equality for LGBTQ+ people. From 1995 to 2023, Jane Ramseyer Miller was the Artistic Director of One Voice Mixed (LGBTQA) Chorus and commissioned more than 40 individual choral works, mostly by queer and BIPOC composers, during her tenure with the chorus. She has also served as Artistic Director for Calliope Women’s Chorus, TransVoices, and as Interim Director of the Twin Cities’ Gay Men’s Chorus.  Through her involvement with GALA and One Voice, Jane Ramseyer Miller has played a key role in promoting LGBTQ+ choral music and community engagement both in Minnesota and around the World. She has been recognized for her contributions to the LGBTQ+ community and to the arts, and has received numerous awards and honors for her work.
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Sue Bell
Membership Services Director
Sue holds a BA degree in English and Women’s Studies, and her resume includes working as a Data Analyst and Client Service Manager for a major management science firm, a Medical Records Manager, DJ for a public radio station, and Sound Engineer for a women’s performance space. She sees her engagement with GALA as a natural blending of her work experience as an information provider with her life-long passions for music, arts culture, feminism, and LGBTQ community-building. Sue will gladly answer your questions about GALA Choruses, membership and participation in GALA events.
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Paul Kruse
Communications Specialist

Paul works as GALA Choruses’ Communications Specialist, maintaining our social media, producing and distributing GALA’s own media content, and developing our website.

Outside of his work with GALA, Paul tells Queer love stories. As a playwright and media artist from Western Wisconsin, his work flows from his Catholic roots and ever-evolving experience of family. Paul often writes collaboratively, drawing from his years of experience as a videographer and documentarian. He is a 2023–2025 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis and a cohort member of Audible’s third Emerging Playwrights Fund. His audio play Once Removed was an official selection at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. Paul’s plays have been produced by Adjusted Realists in Brooklyn, NY; Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA; the Vortex Theater in Austin, TX; and in high schools around the country. Paul has developed work at The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Yaddo, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and Middlebury College. Paul completed his MFA at UT Austin in 2020, where he was a fellow with the Michener Center for Writers. From 2012–2022, Paul was resident playwright with Pittsburgh’s Hatch Arts Collective, which he co-founded with Adil Mansoor and Nicole Shero.