I have been a San Francisco resident for the last 13 years and the Bay Area is my creative home. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English. As a young dancer, I trained with American Ballet Theatre and was an inaugural member of Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet training program.

After performing with Robert Moses’ KIN for four years, I spent the next ten years dancing with ODC/Dance. At ODC, I also served as a choreographer, rehearsal director, and music composer for the company. During my time there, I guested with the San Francisco Symphony and Kate Weare Company (New York). In 2014, I was the recipient of an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for my performance in Two if by Sea, choreographed by Kimi Okada. In 2018, I received an Emmy for my performance and music composition work in the TV special Baseballet: Into the Game.

While loving my professional dance career and all the relationships this offered, it was important to me to branch out into my own work in other mediums. In 2014, I founded Concept o4 as a way to channel my creative energy into choreography, filmmaking, and music composition.

Through Co4, I directed, choreographed, and danced in the film Take Your Time (2017), which became an official selection of the Mill Valley Film Festival and the recipient of six awards including "Best Short" by the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Red Rock Film Festival, and Valley Film Festival. In 2020, I co-created Dance on Camera to help teach these foundational filmmaking skills to more dancers like me.

In 2022, I was awarded an Artist Fellowship with Amy Seiwert’s Imagery. The two-year fellowship will allow me the space and resources to learn to be an effective leader and creator in the field of dance. I will also be asked to bring my perspective and innovations into play throughout its duration.

In my free time, I love to compose music. As part of Saint Tiimbre, I had three album releases with my bandmate, Amp Live, and multiple TV placements for our music. I have since moved on to creating more original music solo as the shortened moniker of Tiimbre. I was selected to create the original song Pink and Purple for the Pixar Sparkshort Out, which was shortlisted for the Oscars in 2021. In addition to my own compositions, I have been serving as the Video Director and host for Ubisoft‘s Rocksmith Plus launch in 2021.

I currently reside in the Bay Area where I love to spend time in the trees, eat delicious food, and hang with my pups.

Max Sachar is a Creative Producer at Pixar Animation Studios by day, and a freelance director/producer by night. For the past 15 years, Max has led teams on Feature Films and Short films, including Coco, Toy Story 3, Wall-E, and Incredibles 2. He recently was the Lead Producer for Pixar’s original short film OUT, which was a shortlist nominee for the 2021 Academy Awards. In addition, Max is a co-director and cinematographer for Concept o4 films, where he has collaborated with Artistic Director Natasha Adorlee on several award-winning pieces of content. During what’s left of his free time, Max spends as much time in the outdoors with his fiancé and 2 pups, and roaming the streets of his hometown, San Francisco, camera in hand.