Contributors

Ted Chapin

Ted Chapin

Ted Chapin is president of Rodgers & Hammerstein.

Eliza Clark

Eliza Clark

Eliza Clark is a producer and writer, known for One Life to Live (1968), The Killing (2011) and Extant (2014).

Lynn Clark

Lynn Clark

Lynn Clark is a Center Theatre Group teaching artist, classroom educator, and professional actress.

Chase Cope

Chase Cope

Chase Cope is a lover of animals, gaming, and talking politics—and an aspiring storyteller.

Malcolm K Darrell

Malcolm K Darrell

Malcolm K. Darrell is a native Angeleno and former member of Center Theatre Group’s artistic staff where he helped to commission, develop...

Gordon Davidson

Gordon Davidson

Gordon Davidson, who was named by Variety as one of the top 100 entertainers of the century and has been inducted in the Theater Hall of Fam...

Jim Farber

Jim Farber

Following a long career as an arts feature writer and critic for the Copley Newspapers and Media News, Jim Farber is now a contributing thea...

Estela Garcia

Estela Garcia

Estela Garcia is a Teaching Artist and Community Liaison for Center Theatre Group. A Los Angeles native, she received her BA from UCLA and h...

Patricia Garza

Patricia Garza

Patricia Garza serves as artistic development program manager at Center Theatre Group, where she manages new play projects. She has an obses...

Lynell George

Lynell George

Lynell George is a Los Angeles based journalist who writes about art, culture, and social issues.

Sigrid Gilmer

Sigrid Gilmer

Sigrid Gilmer is a writer for the educational materials for Center Theatre Group’s Target Young Audiences Program as well as a playwright....

Jonah Gould

Jonah Gould

Jonah Gould is a 19-year-old student, actor and aspiring comedian from Los Angeles currently attending Columbia University in New York City....

Taylor Greenthal

Taylor Greenthal

Taylor Greenthal is a recent graduate of Oberlin College, where she directed some plays, started a small business, made feminist comedy vide...

Tricia Gunter

Tricia Gunter

Tricia Gunter is Center Theatre Group’s Account Sales Coordinator and formerly was Summer 2016 Major Gifts and Events Intern....

Lila Higgins

Lila Higgins

Lila Higgins is an avid urban nature explorer and L.A. River lover. She has a background in entomology and environmental education, and curr...

Leslie K. Johnson

Leslie K. Johnson

Leslie K. Johnson is the Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact at Center Theatre Group.

Lily Larsen

Lily Larsen

Lily Larsen is an ambitious activist and artist ready to help anyone in need yet also inform and inspire her peers to take action and speak...

Rosemary Marston

Rosemary Marston

Rosemary Marston was formerly the Arts Education Program Associate at Center Theatre Group.

Elliot Martin

Elliot Martin

Elliot Martin was the Director of Center Theatre Group in 1967

Jalon Matthews

Jalon Matthews

Jalon Matthews is Center Theatre Group’s Summer 2016 Artistic Development Intern and a senior at Pepperdine University studying theatre ar...

Megan Matthews

Megan Matthews

Megan Matthews divides her time between West Los Angeles (where she is a freelance writer) and Boulder (where she is Managing Director of L...

Jane Schorer Meisner

Jane Schorer Meisner

Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Schorer Meisner is a longtime Iowa writer who grew up one county away from the famous covered bridges.

Emily Moneymaker

Emily Moneymaker

Emily Moneymaker is a rising senior at USC pursuing a career in theatrical management and is Center Theatre Group’s Summer 2016 Content Co...

Richard Montoya

Richard Montoya

Feature Films: Water & Power (Writer/Director, Sundance Institute Alumni, Annenberg Film Fellow), The Other Barrio (Writer/Actor 2015),...

Hailey Moran

Hailey Moran

Hailey Moran is a recent graduate of Occidental College. Her focus of study lies in community-based arts. She strongly believes in the socia...

Brandon Nease

Brandon Nease

Brandon Nease is currently a senior at Chapman University and the Education and Community Partnerships Intern at Center Theatre Group. He l...

Sarah Kay Peters

Sarah Kay Peters

Sarah Kay Peters is an actor, dancer, musician, teaching artist and Theatre of the Oppressed Joker. She has a BA in Acting/Directing and beg...

Manuel Prieto

Manuel Prieto

Manuel Prieto is a theatre designer and Teaching Artist for Center Theatre Group. He enjoys theatre, art, dance and music, but has been know...

Michael Ritchie

Michael Ritchie

Michael Ritchie was the Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group from 2005 – 2021, a nonprofit organization and one of the largest and mo...

Diane Rodriguez

Diane Rodriguez

Diane Rodriguez is an Associate Artistic Director at Center Theatre Group.

Camille Schenkkan

Camille Schenkkan

Camille Schenkkan is the Program Manager for Next Generation Initiatives for Center Theatre Group. Her application pet peeves include links...

James Sims

James Sims

James is the Director of Communications at Center Theatre Group.

Diane Snyder

Diane Snyder

Diane Snyder is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Time Out New York, The Wall Street Journal, and American Theatre....

Annie Tran

Annie Tran

Annie Tran is a recent high school graduate who will be pursuing her bachelor’s degree and passions at the University of California, B...

Michael Zoldessy

Michael Zoldessy

Michael Zoldessy is Center Theatre Group's Account Sales Manager. His passion for James Turrell has brought him to exhibitions and installat...

Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray, American writer, monologuist, and actor, was a storyteller who used his own life experiences for a series of monologues, incl...

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Directing: Jitney—MTC (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Othello—D...

David Román

David Román

David Román is a Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern California.