About us
Vera Belova, founder
I’ve been in love with theatre since I was a teenager, not as a maker, but as an audience member. I grew up in a culture where going to the theatre was just something you did, the way you might go to a café or take a walk. That relationship with art felt natural and alive, and I’ve spent a lot of my adult life in the Bay Area missing it.
After more than twenty years building a career in tech, in coaching, learning and development, and organization work, I started murmur because I wanted to do something about that missing feeling. Not for myself only, but for everyone who suspects there’s incredible theatre happening across the Bay Area and just doesn’t know how to find it. There is. There’s so much of it.
murmur is my way of being useful to the theatre community without getting on stage. I’m not a maker. But I believe deeply that audiences matter, that the people in the seats are part of what makes theatre alive. I want to help fill those seats.
Vera Belova, founder
I’ve been in love with theatre since I was a teenager, not as a maker, but as an audience member. I grew up in a culture where going to the theatre was just something you did, the way you might go to a café or take a walk. That relationship with art felt natural and alive, and I’ve spent a lot of my adult life in the Bay Area missing it.
After more than twenty years building a career in tech, in coaching, learning and development, and organization work, I started murmur because I wanted to do something about that missing feeling. Not for myself only, but for everyone who suspects there’s incredible theatre happening across the Bay Area and just doesn’t know how to find it. There is. There’s so much of it.
murmur is my way of being useful to the theatre community without getting on stage. I’m not a maker. But I believe deeply that audiences matter, that the people in the seats are part of what makes theatre alive. I want to help fill those seats.
Nata Drachinskaya, product designer
Nata is a visual artist based in Santa Clara whose work has been shown across the world, from Tokyo to Paris to Moscow to Los Gatos. She works in sculpture, photography, and mixed media, and her art explores how personal memory weaves into collective history. She graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow and has participated in residencies and workshops across Europe and Asia.
She’s also the person who made murmur look the way it does. Nata built the website and shaped the visual identity of the project, bringing the same care and precision to murmur that she brings to her own work. We’re lucky to have her.
Nata Drachinskaya, product designer
Nata is a visual artist based in Santa Clara whose work has been shown across the world, from Tokyo to Paris to Moscow to Los Gatos. She works in sculpture, photography, and mixed media, and her art explores how personal memory weaves into collective history. She graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow and has participated in residencies and workshops across Europe and Asia.
She’s also the person who made murmur look the way it does. Nata built the website and shaped the visual identity of the project, bringing the same care and precision to murmur that she brings to her own work. We’re lucky to have her.