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 name links below are e-mail links and will open in your e-mail program.)

	Rod McFadden: Chair* Rod McFadden earned his BA from UCLA's Playwriting program in 1982, and then took a 26 year hiatus from writing to have a tragically successful career in retail management. But in early 2009, he returned to writing full time. His plays have been well-received by Bay Area audiences of Broadway West, The Playwrights Center of SF, Wily West Productions, and PlayGround SF. His short play, Counting on Love, was a finalist in the 2011 Showoff competition. Rod serves on the Board of Directors for the Playwrights Center of SF.
Jennifer Roberts: President*
Rod McFadden: Acting Treasurer* Position available. Please contact Jennifer Roberts if interested.
Jennifer Roberts: Acting Secretary* Position available. Please contact Jennifer Roberts if interested.
Vonn Scott Bair: Member-at-Large
Jim Norrena: Member-at-Large
Sarah Nagelvoort: Communications Director
PROGRAMS
Literary Committee: Rotating members of the organization
Sarah Nagelvoort: Administrative Director
	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.
Tom Bruett: Producing Director - Developmental Readings Tom is currently the FutureWorks Fellow at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. As a playwright and lyricist, he’s had work produced at The Player’s Theatre, New Jersey Rep, ReGroup Theatre, and the Mergatroyd Festival, among others. He is currently a featured writer for the Shortened Attention Span Festival in New York. Tom wrote the book and lyrics for All Happy Housewives Sleep with the Milkman, American Family (Festival Winner), Snowed In, Greetings from Coco-Boco! and Just Listed (the apartment musical).  As an actor, Tom toured the country with Irving Berlin’s I Love a Piano. He has a BFA from Hartt School.
Rod McFadden: Scene Night Director*
Volunteer Coordinator Open position.

* Board of Directors position.

Updated 2/13/11