STAFF (in alphabetical order)
Nicholas Ballas, Artistic Director
Robert Benedetti, Associate Artistic Director
Jennifer Graves, Box Office Manager
Anne Gallagher, House Manager
Hania Stocker, Technical Director
Katie Olivant, Managing Director
Skip Rapoport, Lighting Designer
Lynn Roylance, Photographer
Lynn Smith, Production Stage Manager
Board of Directors
Board Chair
William Michener, Professor Emeritus, College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences, The University of New Mexico
Vice-Chair
Nicholas Ballas, restaurateur, actor, director.
Secretary Dr. Katie Olivant, Associate Professor emerita, California State University, Stanislaus and former arts administrator, City of Austin TX and Harriman Fine Arts Program (Kansas City).
Treasurer
Anne Gallagher, Broadway producer, cofounder of Theatre Lovers Club, Santa Fe.
At Large Members
Polly Ahrendt, institutional investment mutual fund manager and executive, documentary film producer, and former board member of The Adobe Rose Theater and the International Folk Arts Festival in Santa Fe and The Alley Theater in Houston, TX.
Martha (Marti) Burt, Theater Lover, Policy Researcher, Community and Political Activist.
Dr. J.R. Damron, physician, former Chair of the NM Health Insurance Exchange, President & CEO of Normad Group, Inc. a commercial real estate development company.
Owen Lipstein, publisher, editor, hotelier, creator of Shakespeare on the Hudson.
Danielle Louise Reddick, actor, theater-maker, and somatic movement practitioner
Hania Luke Stocker, actor, technical director, and landscaping business owner
Emeritus Members
Joan Benedetti, Robert Benedetti
professional ADVISORY COUNCIL
Ted Danson, Michael Gross, Ed Harris, Hugh Jackman, Ali MacGraw
advisory board
Joel Aalberts, Executive Director, Lensic Performing Arts Center
Stuart Ashman, Executive Director, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe
John Andrews, OBE, founder of the Shakespeare Guild
Bob Balzer, Founder, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Sallie Bingham, Co-founder of the Women’s Project, the Santa Fe Stages, writer
Barbara Burnett, Emmy Award-winning television and stage actress and founding member of The Santa Fe Theater Lovers Club.
John Flax, Founding Artistic Director, Theater Grottesco
Joshua Freilich, President, Western Optical Supply, Inc.
Barbara Hatch (on leave 2021) Actress, Director, Educator
Bruce Larsen, Regent, Museum of New Mexico; Trustee, Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Patsy Phillips, Cherokee Nation, Director, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Jonathan Richards, Critic, author, actor, director, cartoonist
Robyn Rikoon, Artistic Director, Santa Fe Playhouse
Robin Williams, Director, iReadShakespeare.org; co-founder of International Shakespeare Center Santa Fe
Jill Cooper Udall, Attorney, arts activist and aspiring author