Contributors










Ted Chapin
Ted Chapin is president of Rodgers & Hammerstein.

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

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

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, 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
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...


Kristin Friedrich
Kristin Friedrich is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer.

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

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

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

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

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...

Steven D. Lavine and Janet Sternburg
Steven D. Lavine and Janet Sternburg(husband and wife) have long worked at the forefront of cultural change. Steven D. Lavineis president (1...


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

Elliot Martin
Elliot Martin was the Director of Center Theatre Group in 1967

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 is an Associate Artistic Director at Center Theatre Group.


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 is the Director of Communications at Center Theatre Group.


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





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

Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Directing: Jitney—MTC (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Othello—Delacorte...




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





