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Urban Stages Theater
259 West 30th Street (bet 7th and 8th Avenues)
For tickets, call Smarttix: 212.868.4444
Urban Stages Adm. Office:
555 8th Avenue, #1800
212.421.1380
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ABOUT OUR LEADERSHIP AND STAFF
Board of Directors, 2009-2010
Mary Churchill, Peter Connick, Marjorie Federbush, Joanne V. Graham, Ellie Hartz, Frances Hill, Thomas Hehman, John Mueller, Peggy O’Brien, Lynn San Andres, Martha Sproule, Stanley Zareff
Urban Stages Staff
Frances Hill l (Founding Artistic Director) began her theatrical career in California as an actress. Since 1983, Ms. Hill has overseen more than 600 staged readings/workshops and 75 productions of new work for the stage. She has directed over 30 workshops and productions. Her favorite directing credits include: Gino DiIorio’s Apostasy, Roma Greth’s Our Summer Days, Jim Lehrer’s Chili Queen, (directed at Urban Stages and Kennedy Center), John Picardi’s Seven Rabbits on a Pole and The Sweepers (directed at Urban Stages and Capital Rep); and Comfort Women by Chugmi Kim (Urban Stages 2004). Two of her plays have been produced, Our Bench and Life Lines. Under the guidance of Ms. Hill, Playwrights’ Preview Productions/URBAN STAGES has moved two plays into commercial Off-Broadway successes. Minor Demons opened the new Century Center Theater and Men on the Verge of His-Panic Breakdown won an Outer Critic’s Circle Award while playing to capacity audiences at the 47th Street Theater. Urban Stages’ African American Poets as Playwrights won eight Audelco Nominations and Coyote On a Fence received two Drama Desk nominations and a Pilgrim’s Project Award.
Taryn A. Anderson (Producing Associate) graduated from Binghamton University receiving a BA in Theater with a concentration in acting. This Degree along with many years of both performance/ administrative experience has enabled her to follow her truest and deepest passion; to produce. Throughout her professional career Taryn has had lead roles in Raisin In the Sun (Beneatha), For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (Lady in Blue), and Vagina Monologues (various). Outside of theater Taryn has held roles in various industrials, commercials and television shows. After college Taryn joined KPA Management as an associate manager. Taryn then moved on to Theatreworks USA as a Casting Associate. Taryn's production career has also started to bloom after producing a 2 act piece entitled Blue Sky Somewhere; and the World Premier of Brooklyn Bets Alexi, as well as pilots for Marvel/ Pow productions. Taryn has come full circle once an intern at Urban Stages 7 years ago; she is now their Producing Associate. Taryn worked on their production of Langston in Harlem and is very excited about all future productions and events.
Olga Devyatisilnaya (Financial Administrator/Wardrobe Supervisor) has worked with Urban Stages for eight years as wardrobe supervisor on all productions produced on our main stage. In Russia she worked as an assistant costume designer in many films. She assisted Farrah Fawcett as her dresser in Moscow on the film Margaret Bourke- White. Olga has many talents including bookkeeping and worked for us in this capacity since 2007. She is currently our financial administrator.
Rachel Sullivan (Program Director) is a director, facilitator, educator, and performer. She co-created/directed Public Space Public Voice, a community arts project involving fifteen women, in which she facilitated sessions on ensemble building and improvisation skills that led to the creation of a devised play, Her Train of Thought at University Settlement House. Recently she co-directed and toured Lost in JASA, a multi-media theatrical event created and performed by seniors at Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA). She has partnered with the Weill Institute to teach theatre workshops at the High School of Finance and Economics and has created interactive theatre-in-education work for the Bedford Library Adult Literacy Center. In addition, she has freelance directed with the Creative Arts Team (CAT) Youth and CAT Junior Youth Theatre where she worked with young people ages 11-21 to create original pieces of theatre developed from the participants' own ideas and opinions. As a performer she has worked with Sojourn Theatre, Capital Rep, Gloucester Stage Company, Horton by the Stream, Stageworks/Hudson, and has toured the New York Public Libraries as Rosie in Rosie the Riveter with Urban Stages. Rachel earned her BS in theatre at Northwestern University and holds a Masters in Applied Theatre from SPS/CUNY where she received training in directing original devised work, building community partnerships, arts in education,and theater for community development.
Joe Trentacosta, Springer Associates PR (Publicist)
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