DIANE ALIANIELLO
Contact: Diane Alianiello

Diane Alianiello has been interested in producing ever since she first saw Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens original West End production in London in 1998. It is her goal to someday soon bring the show to the stages of NYC. In addition to theatre, Diane currently has a number of other artistic and entertainment endeavors in development - watch for announcements! Professionally, Diane currently works full-time for Running Subway Productions whose projects include Bodies...The Exhibition, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NY, and the newly opened Discovery Times Square Exposition Center. And keeping true to her theatre roots, she has just assumed the position of Managing Director for terraNOVA Collective. In the past, Diane has worked for several preeminent production companies including Richard Frankel Productions, Stuart Thompson Productions, and WestBeth Entertainment. Diane holds a BA in Theatre from Florida State University and an MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College. And she is absolutely thrilled to be a part of the 2008-2010 WP Producer's Lab!

AMANDA BERKOWITZ FELDMAN
Contact: Amanda Feldman

Amanda Feldman has
produced in the indie
theatre world since 2003. Her show’s have included: TRADING FLOOR (Access Theatre), THE ASTRONOMER’S TRIANGLE (Studio 5 Loft), THEY’RE JUST LIKE US (The Red Room), DEEPEST PLAY EVER (Fringe NYC 2006), UNFOLD ME (SPF 2007), DRESSING MISS JULIE (Fringe NYC 2007), and NEIGHBOHOOD 3: REQUISITION OF DOOM (SPF 2008). She Company Managed the Off-Broadway show THE J.A.P. CHRONICLES (Perry Street Theatre). Previously she worked with various non-profit and commercial theatre companies including: Nikos Associates, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Baltimore’s CENTERSTAGE, The Shubert Organization, and Richards/Climan, Inc. For three years she was the founding Managing Director of the exciting indie theatre company CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company, Inc. Currently she is the Company Manager for the Lark Play Development Center. She serves on the board of the Community Dish and CollaborationTown. She is a graduate of  Tufts University.

HEATHER COHN
Contact: Heather Cohn

Heather Cohn is a producer, grantwriter, director, set designer and stage manager. She co-founded Flux Theatre Ensemble (www.fluxtheatre.org) in the summer of 2006, and currently serves as the Managing & Development Director. Directing credits for Flux include August Schulenburg's Other Bodies (full production: FringeNYC 2008; workshop production: Katherine and Friends) and staged readings of Jose Rivera's Sueño and Adam Szymkowicz's Pretty Theft. Other credits with Flux include Riding the Bull (stage manager) and Life is a Dream (dramaturg). Other New York theatre credits: production stage manager for The Striking Viking Story Pirates; set designer for Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir (FringeNYC 2007) and Flyers and Other Tales (Midtown International Theatre Festival). She has worked with Cornerstone Theater Company in California and with New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), The Pearl Theatre Company, No Time for Love Productions, Cherry Lane Theatre, Midtown International Theatre Festival and Repertorio Español, all in New York City. Heather is a graduate of Vassar College.

JENNIFER CONLEY DARLING
Contact: Jennifer Conley Darling

Jennifer Conley Darling is the Artistic Director of terraNOVA Collective. Under her guidance over the last decade, terraNOVA has created and implemented programs including:  Groundbreakers, a tiered development process for playwrights focused on both full-length plays & multi-disciplinary one person shows; soloNOVA Arts Festival, a multi-disciplinary festival showcasing the best in solo work; Subterranean, a monthly performance salon-style series, featuring all art forms.  terraNOVA’s work has been seen at such venues as Performance Space 122, Culture Project, Barrow Street Theatre, The Zipper Theatre, BRIC Studio, Center Stage, NY, Theatre Row and most recently has become a Theater in Residence at the DR2 Theatre & D-Lounge (www.terranovacollective.org).  Jennifer was the Lead Producer of East River Commedia & Collective:Unconscious’ 2nd & 3rd Annual undergroundzero festival, this year showcased at Performance Space 122. She was Lead Producer for Women’s Project & Arts:World Financial Center’s site specific piece, Global Cooling: The Women Chill. She was Line Producer for Second Generation’s Eleven Festival. Upcoming: Lead Producer for Theatre Communication Group’s Free Night of Theater Union Square Celebration (www.tcg.org/events/freenight); Producer for Blackouts by J. Anthony Roman at Center Stage, NY (www.swandivestudio.com). Jennifer also worked with The Araca Group as Human Resources Manager, specifically focused on staffing and training the merchandising division for Wicked the Musical globally. She is the Managing Director of Operations for the League of Independent Theater, an advocacy organization for artists & companies working in the Off-Off Broadway community (www.litny.org).

AIMEE DAVIS
Contact: Aimee Davis

Aimee Davis is an avid multi-tasker and hones
her skills while producing and dramaturg-ing. Her juggling feats are best exhibited through the work of LiveFeed, a multi-media performance company. LiveFeed's latest productions include Black Eye Fixer and a series of theatrical vignettes enacted in a once-abandoned, now re-discovered, railway tunnel beneath the streets of downtown Brooklyn. Aimee spent her formative years touring Europe in the role of Navy Brat. As a result, she is open to wide and varied experience and is pleased to add the WP Lab to her repertoire!

MARISSA ROSENBLUM
Contact: Marissa Rosenblum

Marissa Rosenblum is extremely excited to be a part of the Producers Lab. Marissa joined the staff of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) in August 2007 where she assists in the administration of major NAMT programs, including the NAMT conferences and the annual Festival of New Musicals. She is associate producing Like You Like It at the Gallery Players in the Fall. Marissa has previously worked at 321 Theatrical Management and New York Stage & Film at Vassar College.Before her move to the Big Apple in April 2007, Marissa worked in Membership Services at Theater League in Kansas City, MO working with Broadway touring productions in eight U.S. cities. Marissa holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Kansas.

ALLEGRA SCHORR
Contact: Allegra Schorr

Allegra Schorr is a director and an original company member of American Globe Theatre (www.americanglobe.org), the longest-running classical theater in Midtown.  She currently serves as its Board Co-Chair, and will be directing Henry IV, Part I for them in November 2008.  Her directing credits at AGT include works for New Play Festivals, Timon of Athens for the Bard-a Thon, Durang, Durang, by Christopher Durang, Spring Dance by Horton Foote, Brothers in Crime by Feydeau and Cold Sweat by Neal Bell.  As an actress, her favorite roles include Hermia in Midsummer’s Nights Dream and Maria in Twelfth Night. Allegra brings over twenty years of business experience with her as an owner and officer of a primary care and substance abuse treatment program licensed by New York State. She is also a partner in Seymour Schorr Productions, Inc., an independent film production company that has several screenplays in various stages of development.   Allegra studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.

 

CATHERINE TAYLOR-WILLIAMS
Contact: Catherine Taylor-Williams

Catherine Taylor-Williams began as an actress in classical and regional theatres in her home country of Canada for the Stratford Festival and Bard on the Beach, and in the US for six seasons at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA as an artist-manager (acting, directing, teaching and working in Communications). She was the Artistic Producer for Exile Productions in Toronto for two years while working in public relations for a variety of arts organizations including The Market Theatre of Johannesburg, The World Stage Festival, Dance Arts Vancouver and the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra as well as in film and television for Alliance Atlantis Communications.  In 2008, she was one of five international fellows chosen in a competitive arts management program under the center's President, Michael M. Kaiser. It was through the Kennedy Center she became acquainted with the Women's Project and is delighted to be in her second year of the Producers' Lab, fulfilling her passion to support women playwrights, directors and producers and see their plays through to production. Catherine also works in Development for the Atlantic Theater Company. This year, she launched The Wharton Salon, a professional company producing the plays of American novelist Edith Wharton and her contemporaries in site-specific locations at The Mount, Wharton's home in Lenox, MA www.whartonsalon.org