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