murmur team
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
My work sits between product design and visual art.
I have a degree in economics and spent more than ten years working in marketing before building my career in product design. Alongside my design work, I maintain an independent artistic practice in sculpture, photography, and mixed media, exploring how personal memory becomes woven into collective history. I studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and over the years my artwork has been shown in Tokyo, Paris, Moscow, Los Gatos, and other places, as well as through residencies and workshops across Europe and Asia.
For murmur, I designed and built the website and shaped the project’s visual identity, bringing care, structure, and visual sensitivity to the way the project lives online.