Chie Morita (she/they) is a consultant, creative producer, and consummate tinkerer dedicated to retraining our inherited habits and engineering empowering new systems in the arts. They are a co-founder and partner of FORGE, a boutique consultancy devoted to helping artists and companies take the next step in their own work. By leveraging the potential of proactive planning, holistic mentorship, and collaborative asking, Chie seeks to free Makers from historical hindrances, socialized stereotypes, and negative self-stories.

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She is also a Collaborator with Third Rail Projects, the award-winning company behind Then She Fell, creating site-specific, immersive, and experiential performance, and a board member for the Theatre Advocacy Project, creating safe and equitable working conditions for all theatre professionals. 

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From 2017-2019, Chie served as the Deputy Director at Town Stages, a Cultural Arts and Event space in Tribeca, where she created, curated, and managed the Sokoloff Arts Fellowship Program, which offered space, mentorship, and resources to makers of all kinds. While at Town, she had the pleasure of working with artists such as The Macallan, Art Beyond The Glass, Patreon, Milajam, Spotify, Fault Line Theatre Company, and many others. 

 

In New York, she has worked with Tony-Award-winning Broadway Producer Joey Parnes (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, End of the Rainbow), institutions including The Public Theater (Here Lies Love, Fun Home, Into The Woods, and more), Ars Nova, and New York Neo-Futurists (who, under her care, were awarded three Drama Desk nominations), and such independent artists and ensembles as Heather Christian, Esperance Theater Company, Extant Arts Company, UglyRhino, Panicked Productions, Fresh Ground Pepper, and art.party.theater.company. In New Orleans, she is a collaborator with Bywater Wonderland. 

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They finally completed The Artist's Way in January of 2026, believe deeply in sharing rituals and dumplings, and is a proud Taurus.