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Board of Directors and Programs
All members are welcome at Board meetings, which are
announced in the weekly newsletter.
We welcome your comments and suggestions! (All e-mail
addresses are firstname@playwrightscentersf.org.)
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Laylah Muran: Board
Chair*
Laylah has twenty years experience in process efficiency and project
management within a diverse set of industries with return on investment
in the millions. Throughout her career she has contributed to and
edited company newsletters. She has also been writing short fiction and
acting since she was a child. Laylah has directed a radio play, "The
Saying of Her Names," and several staged readings. She was the co-host
for a play reading series for the Noh Oratorio Society in the mid-90's.
Laylah joined PCSF as one of the regular actors in January of 2005 and
became a board member in March of that year. She brings with her a
valuable combination of business savvy, creative problem solving, and
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Pat Milton: President*
Patricia Milton is co-author with Andrew Black of Porn Yesterday,
Strange Bedfellows, and It's Murder, Mary! They have been commissioned
by the New Conservatory Theater Center. Porn Yesterday has been seen in
Phoenix, AZ, San Diego, and New York City. Strange Bedfellows won the
2005 Absolute Time Play Festival, and received a reading at City Lights
Theater of San Jose. Patricia's one-act plays include Real/Not Real
(2007 BOA Festival) Emerald Kitty, and The Only Virgin in Jubilee
County. Her short plays have been seen at the 2004 Marin Fringe (2nd
Prize), Short Leaps!, Boston Play Slam, Woman's Will 24-Hour PlayFest,
Lakeshore Players Ten-Minute Play Festival, Sheherezade, North Park
Playwrights Festival, SF Fringe 2006, and PlayGround SF. She is the
President of PCSF, and a member of Play Café, Theatre Bay Area,
and The Dramatists Guild. |
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Brian Tognotti:
Treasurer*
Brian J. Tognotti has a BA with honors in Theatre from UCLA. His short
play Make Love Not War will be produced at New Conservatory Theatre in
June 2008. His play Louella's Burden was selected for the Lakeshore
Players, The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco's Sheherezade and
Three Wise Monkeys Short Leaps competitions. Sense Memory and
Self-Animations were finalists for the Bay One Acts Festival. He is
Chair of The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco and a member of The
Dramatists' Guild of America. |
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Bob Hayden: Membership
Director*
Hayden is an active playwright, a member of the Birimisa Playwrights
Group, involved with the San Francisco Fringe, and is a volunteer in
the San Francisco theater community. His plays have been produced
nationally and in Australia. |
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Alina Trowbridge:
Development Director*
Alina Trowbridge studied creative writing at San Francisco State and
the art of the 10-minute play with Erin Blackwell. Alina's 10-minute
plays have been produced on both coasts (and in New Hampshire) by
PlayGround, the Playwrights' Center, Pan Theater, Ross Valley Players,
Theaters Against War, Three Wise Monkeys, Yellow Taxi, Woman's Will,
the Mae West Fest, and Another Country Productions. She was part of the
Cruel & Unusual team writing about torture at the 2006 San
Francisco Fringe Festival. Her full-length play Seismic Surprises
Enliven Our Lives received honorable mention at Stage 3's Festival of
New Plays 2005 (Sonora). Alina serves as Development Manager at St.
Anthony Foundation. |
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Andy Black: Member
at Large*
Andrew's plays with co-author Patricia Milton include P*orn Yesterday,
Strange Bedfellows, and It's Murder, Mary! Andrew and Pat won the SF
Stage and Film Absolute Time Play Festival 2005 (Strange Bedfellows),
and have had plays produced in New York, Phoenix and San Diego (P*orn
Yesterday). Andrew and Patricia have been commissioned by the New
Conservatory Theater for a commissioned world premier comedy for the
2007-2008 season. Andrew is the author of the ten-minute play Ark Types
which was featured in Outfest, sponsored by the LSU Department of
Theatre in Baton Rouge. Ark Types will be presented in a Festival of
Short Plays produced by StageQ in Madison, Wisconsin. Andrew was a
member of the 2004/2005 PlayGround Writers Pool. He is a member of
Theatre Bay Area and The Dramatists Guild. |
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Jason Jeremy: Member
at Large*
Jason is a local actor who got his start doing radio theatre as a
kid, corrupted by such lovable kooks as the Firesign Theatre troupe and
NPR’s Dr. Science. He went on to play numerous roles
for stage at the University of Illinois, including Jake in A
Girl’s Guide to Chaos and Jonathan Harker in a surreal anarchist
twist on Dracula.
Jason now lives in San Francisco, where he works as a computer
programmer and enjoys the many acting opportunities the city has to
offer. He has recently appeared on stage as Reese in The War
at Home and in the Sheherezade 2007 ensemble and in
the short films IT Help Desk as Eugene and Climate Change
as Manny. |
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Soumyaa Kapil: Member at
Large*
Soumyaa is a theatre practitioner, filmmaker and educator. She is
currently finishing her M.F.A. in filmmaking at San Francisco State
University. She most recently participated as a lecturer in the
Forum on Gender Education at Sun Yat-Sen University in southern
China. She is also directing Widow West, a new play by Morgan
Ludlow, this fall at StageWerx Theatre in San Francisco as well as
fundraising for her next film, Hanging HANC. Soumyaa’s last
film, Climate Change will screen this September at the Rome
International Film Festival. She has participated in PCSF’s
annual fundraiser, Sheherezade, for the last four years and is excited
to join the board this year.
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Michael Behrens: Member at
Large*
Michael is pleased to join the board at PCSF this year. He is a
director, cinematographer and arts administrator. He has acted
and directed professionally in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Some of
the theatres he has worked at include Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
Chicago Dramatists, Tampere Theatre, Seinajoki City Theatre, San Diego
Repertory as well as appearing in several tv shows and
commercials. Currently he is earning his Masters degree in
Non-profit Management at the University of San Francisco and is
developing an educational exchange program in China. His latest
work as director of photography on the film, Climate Change, will be
screened this September at the Rome International Film Festival.
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Literary Committee:
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Meg O’Connor: Administrative Director
Meg O'Connor is a playwright, singer, actor, and theater enthusiast.
She graduated from USF, where she studied creative writing with an
emphasis in playwriting. Several of her one acts have been produced by
USF's College Players, including a staged reading of her full length,
In the Wings. She was the Activities Director for the College Players
in their 143rd season, and she has acted in many of their performances.
She is currently the Literary Manager for The Cutting Ball Theater, and
singing for San Francisco Renaissance Voices.
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Sara Staley: Producing
Director - Staged Readings
Sara is originally from Southern California where she got her BA in
Theater from UCLA. After working briefly in production and media
planning/promotions for NBC and Disney, she relocated to the Bay Area
to pursue theater full time. Since the fall of 2001, Sara has been the
Director of the YouthAware Educational Theatre program at the New
Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) in San Francisco, where she produces
and directs a season of educational/social issue plays, staged with
professional actors, that tour to student audiences all over Northern
California. Sara also facilitates discussions with large young
audiences on the tough topics that YouthAware plays tackle, including
HIV prevention, diversity, homophobia, body image, personal choices
& responsibility. She is most interested in pursuing &
developing her directing for the theater. She has directing credits
with YouthAware, PCSF, FRESH New Works, and the SF Young Playwright's
Festival, and she also designs sound for the stage. Sara is happy to
serve on the Board for the Playwright's Center of San Francisco because
of her strong belief in the need to encourage and develop new plays and
new voices in the theater. |
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Jan Carty Marsh:
Producing Director - Developmental Readings
Jan has a B.A. in Theatre and is a SAG member and EMC. She acts,
directs, and teaches, and has served internships with Shakespeare Santa
Cruz and The S.F. Mime Troupe. She collaborated on and marketed
screenplays in L.A., and was a producer at Bindlestiff Studios, funding
and publicizing productions. |
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Suze Allen: Dramaturg
Suze Allen is a playwright, actor, teacher, dramaturge and director
with credits on both coasts. Her work has been on stage at Brava! For
Women in the Arts, The Marsh, Noh Space, Intersection for the Arts, The
Climate, The Phoenix, Portland Stage Company, Out North Alaska, Mad
Horse Theatre and the SF and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. Suze
co-produces the Marsh Cafe Second Sundays; a breeding and reading
ground for new short works and is creator of the Maine Playwrights' Lab
and Short Works Festival. She is Artistic Director for the SF Writers
and Actors Lab in Bernal Heights. Her new solo show The Manic Mama
Dance premiered at the Marsh Cafe in June 2006. Suze was the
Developmental Readings Producing Director for the 06/07 season before
changing roles to be the new Dramaturge at the Playwrights' Center of
San Francisco. |
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Andy Black: Scene Night
Director*
See biography above.
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Jody Handley
Christopher Jenkins
Dawson Moore
Laura Ellen Smith
Aoise Stratford
Mike Ward |
We also have a newly appointed team of grant writers
working to fund PCSF's future.
* Board of Directors position.
Updated 7/23/08
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