About Us

Nicole Campoy-Leffler Editor-In-Chief

Danyel Madrid  Editor-at-Large

Nicole Campoy-Leffler, Danyel Madrid, Josh Morrison, Penny Orloff  Contributing Writers

Peter Lee, Josef Woodard, Gray Malin, Andrea F. Pagliai, Rebecca Taylor, Brittany Krasner, Helen Kearns, Michael Hartig Guest Writers

Christian M. Chensvold  Founder

Claudiu Rogoveanu  Web Maintenance

FineArtsLA.com serves to foster the fine arts community, including artists, dancers, musicians, arts leaders, visionaries, and aficionados by providing a forum to learn about current dance, opera, museum, music, art gallery, theatre, and film events happening in Los Angeles as well as behind the scenes glimpses of those who bring the highest caliber fine arts culture to Los Angeles.

Nicole Campoy-Leffler, born and raised in LA, has been a lifelong student of voice and dance.  Her love for both have been nurtured over the years all around this sprawling city and beyond.  After graduating from Emerson College with a degree in Media Theory and two minors, in Literature and Entrepreneurship, Nicole traveled to Hong Kong and Italy and recently worked for the Los Angeles Ballet.

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Danyel Madrid brings knowledge and passion to her post as Fine Arts LA’s Editor at Large.  After graduating from USC with a degree in Art History and Classics, Danyel traveled around the islands of Greece and has recently worked for the Los Angeles Ballet and the Anna Helwing Gallery in Culver City.

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Josh Morrison is a freelance writer, screenwriter, and aspiring actor with a double-degree in Film and Literature from Emerson College. He has lived in the LA area for the past year-and-a-half, working in the research department of CBS’s The Amazing Race, producing and writing his own films, and tutoring children with special needs. He is new to LA’s fine arts scene, but his eyes and ears are wide open.

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Penny Orloff is a freelance writer and editor in Los Angeles.  She studied voice at Juilliard  and sang over 20 principal sopranos with the New York City Opera.  She also wrote the novel “Jewish Thighs on Broadway,” starred in the stage version, and wrote the libretto for Allen Shawn’s Opera “The Ant and the Grasshopper.”

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Christian Chensvold, Fine Arts LA’s foward-thinking founder, has created other websites that include Dandyism.net and has written numerous articles for L’Uomo Vogue, Robb Report, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications.  We are immensely grateful to him for executing his vision and creating this site! We know that you, the readers, are as well!