OUR TEAM.

Maria Rapetskaya

Founder & Creative Director
Inspired artist. Inspiring leader. Dedicated give-backer. Hands-on creating. Writing, speaking and occasionally teaching. Internationally honored and published. Travel addict at sixty-eight countries across six continents.

Teaching: NYU, University of the Arts.
Select Publications: Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, HOW Design, POST Magazine.
Select Speaking: CoreConnect, PromaxBDA, Self-Employment in the Arts Conference, SVG Graphics Summit (Committee Member).
Full press & appearance archive here.

Cathy Humphrey

Executive Producer & Director of Operations
Budget magician. Scheduling wizard. Resource juggler. Seventeen years of miracle-making, managing multi-million dollar creative companies. Cathy gives every project her all, big or small. Initiative-taker, prioritizer and multitasker. Personable at every turn. Proactive to a fault (as if that was even possible).

Notable Experience: Ten years on-site as Executive Producer of the US Open (Tennis ) Scoreboard Show. Director of Operations for two NYC post-production facilities. Eighteen years of live action producing at every level.

Stephen McNally

Lead Designer & Animator
Inventive. Curious. Analytical. Stephen is the senior animator/jack-of-some-trades at UC. In a realm dominated by (2) females, he brings some Y-chromosome balance to the proceedings.

Ten years into his career, he’s still young enough to bring fresh ideas, but old enough to have a go-to bag of tricks.

When not animating, he’s attempting to juggle recent fatherhood with a demanding schedule of (rec) soccer.

Mikaela Kalmar

Design & Marketing Wizard
Upbeat. Resourceful. Dependable. Mikaela is the newest addition to UC, juggling both creative and administrative roles.

Designer, illustrator, creature-creator and occasional world traveler, she brings a unique perspective to her work.

Forever dancing, regularly snacking and always ready for an adventure.