LEIGH GOLDENBERG
leigh@stonesoupkitchen.org

Leigh Goldenberg is a founding member and Managing Director of Stone Soup Theatre Arts (stonesoupkitchen.org), a politically and socially conscious theatre company. Leigh has produced 10 of Stone Soup's 11 productions since its inception in 2001, each focusing on topics ranging from Chinese human rights to the First Amendment, from labor to privacy. Leigh was a producer of The UnConvention, an American Theatre Festival during the Republican National Convention in 2004, for which Stone Soup presented Elie Wiesel's The Trial of God . Other favorite Stone Soup productions include Don DeLillo's Valparaiso, Edward Bond's Stone and the original plays Just the Front and Penetralia.

Besides her involvement with Stone Soup, Leigh has worked backstage with such companies as MCC, Young Playwrights, Primary Stages and Clubbed Thumb. As an administrator, she spent three years with The Pearl Theatre Company and is currently the Finance Associate at HERE Arts Center. With Women's Project, Leigh is producing Saviana Stanescu's "I Want What You Have" as part of Girls Just Want to Have Fund$ at the World Financial, directed by Gia Forakis.

Leigh was a member of the first graduating class in the Theatre Production and Management program at Marymount Manhattan College.

MARIA GOYANES
maria_goyanes@yahoo.com

Maria Goyanes joined the full-time staff at the Public Theater as the Artistic Associate in August of 2004, under George C. Wolfe. Previously at the Public, she worked as the Reading Coordinator for the New Work Now Series '04, and the In-House Producer for the New German Voices Festival. As a freelancer, she is the Executive Producer for 13P, also known as 13 Playwrights, a collective of writers that includes Sarah Ruhl, Anne Washburn, Erin Courtney, and many others. She recently was named co-chair of the Soho Rep Writer/ Director Lab, along with Jason Grote. She has worked with the Vineyard Theater, Play Company, SITI Company, Foundry Theatre, the Roundabout Theater Company, Young Playwrights Inc, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and the Williamstown Theater Festival. Before returning home to NYC, she was Associate Producer at Trinity Repertory Company under the helm of Oskar Eustis, where she produced the Theater from the Four Directions Native Playwrights Festival, established a family programming series, and directed a New England summer tour of 'Much Ado About Nothing.' While in Providence, she founded DUENDE ARTS, a collective created to do Donna DiNovelli's 'The First Eff', staged in the oldest indoor arcade in the United States.

 

KAREN GRENKE
karen@cageyproductions.com
212-501-3991

KAREN GRENKE founded the production company Cagey Productions. With Cagey she has produced at HERE, Theatre for the New City, the Ontological, chashama, Metropolitan Playhouse, BAX, The Brick and The Palace of
Variety. She has also produced for Shumka Dance/Theater and The Bridge Collective, both in NYC and on tour. She began her career at New York Theatre Workshop and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. Upcoming projects include "The Blue Puppies Cycle” at the Chocolate Factory; “End” at the Tiny Theater Festival; and “The Curse of the Smart Kid”.

AMY KAISSAR
amy@epiphanytheater.org
Amy Kaissar is the Producing Director and Co-Founder of Epiphany Theater
Company. Her directing credits include Searching for St. Anthony (Abingdon
Theater, Samuel French Festival), If You Know You're Shallow Does that
Mean You're Deep? (Funny Woman Festival), Pennsyltucky and Another Round
(Epiphany Theater), The Dawdlers (Theater Studio Inc.), Crossing Over
(Pittsburgh Public Theatre Workshop), and You Don't Miss What You Never
Had (WQED-PBS). Amy's study, Theater Subscriptions in a Changing World was
published in the US and Australia, and as a subscription/membership
consultant she has worked with New York City Opera and The Lark Play
Development Center. In other capacities Amy has worked with The New York
Theater Workshop, The Roundabout Theater Company, Classic Stage Company,
and the Rylander Theater in Georgia. Amy holds a BFA in directing from
Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Theater Management from Columbia
University.

 

MAGGIE LAUREN

Maggie Lauren was last seen performing her One Woman, Atlanta's Daughters, at Manhattan Theatre Source. Other NY credits include: Conquest of the Universe (HERE, dir. Emma Griffin), My Renaissance Faire Lady (Ontological-Hysterical), Masterpiece Theatre (Ontological, dir. Evan Cabnet). Regionally she has performed at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, New York Stage and Film at Vassar, and The Williamstown Theatre Festival. She received her B.F.A. from NYU. Film/TV credits include Palindromes, dir. Todd Solondz, The Bedford Diaries, The Sopranos, Saturday Night Live and the pilot, Mad Men. She is a Stand-Up Comic and humorist writer. She is currently writing Prideful Marjorie, an adult children's book and Too Much to Swallow, ruminations on the sex wars. She is an Artistic Associate of APPLE GIRL PRODUCTIONS.

 

PATRICIA MCNAMARA
PatriciaMcNamara@yahoo.com
Service: 212-636-9314

Patricia has produced with Etcetera Theatre Company, and directed Caryl Churchill's “Top Girls” at the American Theatre of Actors; produced George Bernard Shaw's “Mrs. Warren's Profession” in repertory with “Mrs. Weinberg's Profession” by Aaron Rosenblatt at Creative Place Theatre. Other directing credits include “The Irish Wake” by Elizabeth Dembrowsky, an entry in the Samuel French Theatre Festival. Upcoming: Co-producer with Women’s Project’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$” at the World Financial Center, May 2007, and directing “Stripped,” spring 2007, a workshop production with Starstruck and Monkeys Theatre Company. Patricia is a board member of ShakespeareNYC and is also an actress.

 

VICTORIA JOY MURRAY
vj_murray@yahoo.com

Victoria is delighted to be joining Women's Project for a second time! She recently served as Assistant Director to Katie Pearl on Lisa D'Amour's THE CATARACT. Prior to this Ms. Murray served as Assistant Director to Tim Bond for the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's production of INTIMATE APPAREL. She recently completed her tenure as a fellow with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is currently an Allen Lee Hughes fellow at Arena Stage. Ms.
Murray is the Founding Artistic Director of the fledgling Washington, DC based YAMS Theatre, Inc. Directorial credits include Marcus Gardley's MOON BITCH, A WOMAN"S LIBERATION by Roxi Trapp-Dukes, and SHE: THE HEALING POOL, conceived by Ms. Murray. Ms. Murray holds a BFA in Pre-Directing from Howard University.

 

LINDA POWELL
lindap@nyc.rr.com

Linda Powell is an actress whose work has been seen on and off Broadway, at numerous regional theaters across the country, and in various films and television shows. Her previous producing experience consists of work with the critically acclaimed Willow Cabin Theater Company. As a producer, she aspires to generate engaging theater that embraces a diversity of thought and culture.

 

ALLISON PROUTY
allison.prouty@gmail.com

Select Producing Credits: THE BOY IN THE BATHROOM (Executive Producer) with NYMF at The 45th Street Theater, Martha's Vineyard Independent Film Festival (Guest Producer), 4th Annual SoloNOVA Arts Festival at PS 122 (Co-Producer), THROAT (Executive Producer) The 45th Street Theater (New York City, NY) Washington, DC (Mead Theater Lab @ Flaspoint), McAllen, TX (Cine el Rey) and Minneapolis, MN (The Southern Theater). Allison served as the Associate Artistic Director for V-Day: A Global Movement to End Violence Against Women and Girls founded by Eve Ensler. As the Festival Producer, she produced all four marquee events for UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC this past June. She was an Associate Producer of The Good Body (Broadway /2005-2006 National Tour /ACT). Allison served as the founding Executive Producer of Stillpoint Productions (Artistic Director and Founder, Lear DeBessonet) based in New York City where they premiered BONE PORTRAITS at Walkerspace. She also co-produced Valiant as part of the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. Allison was the Assistant Director on the World Premiere of Necessary Targets (Off-Broadway and Hartford Stage Company). At Hartford Stage Company, Allison was the Assistant Director for A Christmas Carol, Tea at Five and Constant Star. She has directed productions of Boston Marriage, How I Learned to Drive, 'night, Mother, Keely and Du, Miss Julie and The Maids. Allison has worked with Hartford Stage Company, Hangar Theater, Icarus Theater Ensemble, Williamstown Theater Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and O'Connor Casting in Chicago. She is a graduate of Skidmore College.

 

BRIDGETTE WIMBERLY
321 West 116th Street
Suite 3W
New York, New York 10026
Bridgettewimberly@verizon.net

Bridgette Wimberly is the author of seven plays. Her work has been produced, commissioned, and/or workshopped at The Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, The Cleveland Play House, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, Karamu House, The Manhattan Theatre Club, and Saint Louis Black Repertory Theatre. Her play "Saint Lucy's Eyes" starring Ruby Dee with Willis Burks II, Toks Olagundoye, and Sally Stewart, directed by Billie Allen was produced by the Women's Project in 2001 and moved to the Cherry Lane Theatre after a sold out run. Wendy Wasserstein was her mentor on this play. Bridgette was part of the team that presented an adaptation of Ibsen's "Rosmersholm" in this August/September at 59E59 Theatres in New York.