Contributors
![Center Theatre Group](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Jessica Doherty](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_face,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/general/2022-23%20Web%20Updates/Blogs/Jessica_Doherty_Headshot-opt.png)
![Bobby Martinez](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_face,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/general/2022-23%20Web%20Updates/Blogs/IMG_6259_opt.png)
![Jessica Doherty & Bobby Martinez](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Roby Johnson and Jacqueline Carrillo](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Emily Alpren](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Tiana Alvarez](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Chelsea Barker](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Matthew Bourne](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Ted Chapin](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Ted Chapin
Ted Chapin is president of Rodgers & Hammerstein.
![Eliza Clark](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Eliza Clark
Eliza Clark is a producer and writer, known for One Life to Live (1968), The Killing (2011) and Extant (2014).
![Lynn Clark](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Lynn Clark
Lynn Clark is a Center Theatre Group teaching artist, classroom educator, and professional actress.
![Chase Cope](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Chase Cope
Chase Cope is a lover of animals, gaming, and talking politics—and an aspiring storyteller.
![Malcolm K Darrell](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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...
![Michael Datcher](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Gordon Davidson](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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...
![Shaila Essley](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Jim Farber](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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...
![Angelina Finau](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Kristin Friedrich](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Kristin Friedrich
Kristin Friedrich is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer.
![Estela Garcia](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_center,h_210,q_90,w_310/zwdbagqpiek9hg7rmntz.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Lynell George
Lynell George is a Los Angeles based journalist who writes about art, culture, and social issues.
![Sigrid Gilmer](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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....
![Jonathan L. Green](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Taylor Greenthal](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Tricia Gunter
Tricia Gunter is Center Theatre Group’s Account Sales Coordinator and formerly was Summer 2016 Major Gifts and Events Intern....
![Brendan Haley](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Lila Higgins](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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...
![Lucas Hnath](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Armando Huipe](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Leslie K. Johnson](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_face,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/general/PressKit/StaffHeadshots/Headshots_0349.jpg)
Leslie K. Johnson
Leslie K. Johnson is the Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact at Center Theatre Group.
![Lily Larsen](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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...
![Sarah Rose Leonard](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Rosemary Marston](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Rosemary Marston
Rosemary Marston was formerly the Arts Education Program Associate at Center Theatre Group.
![Elliot Martin](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_face,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/general/PressKit/ElliotMartin/martin-elliot-headshot.jpg)
Elliot Martin
Elliot Martin was the Director of Center Theatre Group in 1967
![Jalon Matthews](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/2017/prog_50th/Dinner/686172762.jpg)
Richard Montoya
Feature Films: Water & Power (Writer/Director, Sundance Institute Alumni, Annenberg Film Fellow), The Other Barrio (Writer/Actor 2015),...
![Hailey Moran](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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...
![Marcos Nájera](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Brandon Nease](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Brandon Nease
Brandon Nease is currently a senior at Chapman University and the Education and Community Partnerships Intern at Center Theatre Group. He l...
![Tajianna Okechukwu](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Ricky Pak](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Tanya Palmer](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Sarah Kay Peters](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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...
![Jesus Reyes](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Michael Ritchie](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_face,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/general/PressKit/MichaelRitchie/Headshots_0115.jpg)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_face,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/general/PressKit/StaffHeadshots/Headshots_0626.jpg)
Diane Rodriguez
Diane Rodriguez is an Associate Artistic Director at Center Theatre Group.
![Sarah Rothbard](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Camille Schenkkan](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
Camille Schenkkan
Camille Schenkkan is the Program Manager for Next Generation Initiatives for Center Theatre Group. Her application pet peeves include links...
![Juan Silverio](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![James Sims](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_center,h_210,q_90,w_310/dadw2ljbqcnczmkp1cwm.png)
James Sims
James is the Director of Communications at Center Theatre Group.
![Lisa Sloan](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Diane Snyder](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
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...
![Shannon Michael Wamser](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Rob Weinert-Kendt](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Kacey Wilson](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Kristin Yamaka](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Michael Zoldessy](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_center,h_210,q_90,w_310/ontatcw8jycy7h5w0g4z.png)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/1985/prod_SwimmingtoCambodia/spaldinggray-headshot.jpg)
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](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_face,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/2019/prod_LB/BEvans_RubenSantiagoJr_108_Final.jpg)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Directing: Jitney—MTC (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Othello—D...
![Andi Chapman](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Antaeus Theatre Company](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Paula Vogel](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![David Román](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
David Román
David Román is a Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern California.
![René Auberjonois](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_face,h_210,q_90,w_310/v1/general/BlogAuthors/1024px-Rene-Auberjonois-by-kyle-cassidy-DSC_8245.jpg)
![Michael Ritchie & Meghan Pressman](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Kathlynn Alba](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Alexandra Meda](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Sherry Stern](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Michelle Teh](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)
![Michael R. Jackson](https://res.cloudinary.com/dv3qcy9ay/image/upload/v1461666852/placeholders/placeholder_620_420.png)