Ralph Remington

Ralph Remington (born January 2, 1963, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a multidisciplinary artistic leader and community builder, theater director, essayist, actor, writer, and former American politician.

Ralph was appointed by Mayor London Breed as Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission and the City and County of San Francisco in January 2021.

Ralph is the former Deputy Director for Arts and Culture for the City of Tempe, Arizona.

He also had artistic responsibility for the Tempe Center for the Arts as artistic director.

Remington is the former Western Regional Director/Assistant Executive Director of Actors' Equity Association.

Ralph Remington is a member of the first graduating class of The Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, in 1980, where he was President of the Student Council for two years.

He was a Drama Major and a Dance Minor.

He studied Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Modern at Philadanco.

While in high school, Ralph was a TV moderator/host for the series Perspective Youth on the ABC-TV affiliate WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.

Ralph changed his name professionally from Satterthwaite to Remington upon joining the acting unions in the 1980s.

His first acting gig under an Equity contract was Soulful Scream of a Chosen Son with Rob Morrow, written by Ned Eisenberg, at The Philadelphia Festival Theater for New Plays.

While living in New York City, he was a member of the company Thunder in the Light, under the direction of Remi Bosseau at The Whole Theatre, under artistic director Olympia Dukakis.

Remington is currently Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission.

He is the former Deputy Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Tempe, AZ.

In that capacity he functioned as Artistic Director for the Tempe Center for the Arts.

Remington served as the Western Regional Director/Assistant Executive Director of Actors' Equity Association (AEA).

The labor union represents 50,000 Actors and Stage Managers of the professional theatre in the United States.

Remington served as the Director for Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts.

He was responsible for the grantmaking processes for theater and musical theater, developing partnerships to advance the theater field as a whole, and leading large-scale theater projects such as the NEA's New Play Development Program.

He was appointed by NEA chairman and Broadway theatre producer, Rocco Landesman.

In the spring of 2002, Remington directed a production of Amiri Baraka's Dutchman at the Source Theater in Washington.

He was the executive director of the Media Artists Resource Center in St. Paul where he was responsible for fundraising and strategic planning and engineered a successful merger with the Independent Filmmaker Project.

Remington founded Pillsbury House Theatre out of the settlement house tradition of community collaboration.

He served as Pillsbury's producing artistic director, managing a $500,000 budget.

He served one term from 2006 through 2010.

Ralph Remington is a US Army Veteran, certified AIDS/HIV educator, union member and former International Brotherhood of Teamsters organizer.

He is currently a member of Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and Actors' Equity Association (AEA).

Ralph grew up in West Philadelphia.

His parents are Ralph and Sadie Satterthwaite.

He has two younger siblings Eric and Kristoffer Satterthwaite.

He attended Anderson Elementary School, Julia R. Masterman School and Turner Middle School.

He was also a student at Central High School (Philadelphia) before leaving in his second year for The Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

In 2010 he became the Director of Theater and Musical Theater for the National Endowment for the Arts.

He currently resides in San Francisco, California.

Remington has written seven feature screenplays and two plays.

He is founding producing artistic director of Pillsbury House Theatre, in Minneapolis Minnesota where he was also an elected member of the Minneapolis City Council.

In January 2014, Remington become the western regional director for Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors.

Remington has directed, produced and acted in over 50 plays.

He served as artistic associate and director of community engagement with Arena Stage, overseeing all of the company's outreach and education programs and a staff of 19, managing a $750,000 budget.

While at Arena, he led the Living Stage Theater Company, created and toured a devised work piece called America: Work in Progress, and directed Dael Orlandersmith's critically acclaimed The Gimmick and Talking With by Jane Martin.