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LISA STEINDLER (Executive Artistic Director)Lisa Steindler is in her fifth year with Z Space and is also known for her years of artistic leadership of San Francisco’s Encore Theatre Company. Lisa has produced more than 20 world premieres, as well as other works, from some of the most exciting contemporary playwrights including Adam Bock, Claire Chafee, Leigh Fondakowski, Mark Jackson, Adam Rapp, Steve Yockey, Daniel MacIvor, Peter Nachtrieb, Mark Routhier and others. With her degrees in theatre (B.A., University of Vermont) and acting (M.F.A., American Conservatory Theatre), Steindler has directed and acted in innumerable productions throughout her career, including favorite roles as the Angel in A.C.T.’s Angels in America and Adele in Encore Theatre’s Five Flights, and has spent more than a decade bringing theatre to Bay Area middle and high schools through the ArtReach program she coordinates for A.C.T. She welcomes you to the new home of the Z Space.
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DAVID SZLASA (Programming Director) has produced more than 150 events since joining the organization in 2005. Previous to Z, Szlasa has held the position of Production Manager with The Culture Project, Theater Artaud, The Drama League, Dance Theater Workshop, and with many individual artists nationally. In addition, Szlasa creates and designs multimedia performances and installations.
dszlasa@zspace.org
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SUSAN HARLOE (Artistic Director, Word For Word) Sue is Founder and Artistic Director, with JoAnne Winter, of Word for Word. She probably got the idea for staging stories at her mother's knee, since her mother was a writer and wonderful storyteller. Between then and now, Sue has become an ardent francophile, and loves bringing Word for Word to France every year to perform great short stories in great venues throughout the country. Many, many people have helped along the way, in particular Word for Word's illustrious Charter Group. She has produced Word for Word stories for the past...many...years. Some of her favorite roles for Word for Word are Mary in "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs" and The Bullet in "Bullet in the Brain, both by the unparalleled Tobias Wolff; Mrs. Roby in Edith Wharton's comedy of manners, "Xingu"; and Audrey Atkinson in Alice Munro's "Friend of My Youth."
sharloe@zspace.org
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JAMES FAERRON (Producing Manager) James Kennedy Faerron is a native Costa Rican whose professional theater career began in 1988 at the Actor’s Playhouse (Miami, Fla.) where he was the Resident Set Designer and Technical Director. He acquired an interest in new plays while collaborating with John Rodaz at the Area Stage Theater Company (Miami, Fla.) that later inspired a move to San Francisco in 1996. For the past 14 years, James has focused in producing, developing and designing the scenery for new works (over 40 world premieres) leading to important collaborative relationships most notably with: The Magic Theater, Rattlestick Theater (NYC), Southern Rep (NOLA) Campo Santo, Encore Theater and now The Z-Space. James, an award winning Set Designer and Producer and an Instructor of Technical Theater at SFUHS, is proud to be part of the Z-Space Team |
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LAURA BERGMAN (Development DIrector)Laura Bergman has served the non-profit sector for more than 20 years. She started her career in politics, working on campaigns ranging from United States Senators to local council members. She earned a Masters in Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon, and spent four years in Prague, Czech Republic, where she created and received funding from the European Union for the first-ever Parliamentary internships in Eastern Europe. Following that successful program launch, which still exists, Ms. Bergman directed an arts foundation for a Czech noble family, raising enough funds to open a 15-room world class art exhibition in a Renaissance castle, with then President Vaclav Havel presiding. She also directed the renovation and opening of the family’s archival library containing 60,000 books, many dating back to the 11th century. Since her return to the U.S., she has directed arts programs for the California Assembly for Local Arts Agencies, the Exploratorium’s Institute for Inquiry, and was the first executive director of the Z Space Studio, a theater non-profit, for five years. |
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JoANNE WINTER (Artistic Director, Word For Word, Director, Youth Arts)
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REYNALDI LOLONG (Marketing Manager) is a first generation Asian American born near San Francisco, and so naturally was supposed to graduate from Berkeley or Stanford and become a lawyer or a doctor. Instead he graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Arts Marketing, and has worked with a number of wonderful organizations, including Encore Theatre Company, Foothill Music Theatre, Film Arts Foundation, Paper Mill Playhouse. He studied playwriting at NYU with Cassandra Medley, and at SFSU with Bill Peters Anne Galjour. His is currently at work on his original musical, The Gilded, which you can read all about at thegrandestadventure.blogspot.com.
rlolong@zspace.org |
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CRISTOBAL MCKINNEY (Administrative Director) is a San Francisco native of mixed descent, who spent his early years in the Haight Ashbury District before moving into fog blankets on the southwest facing slopes of Twin Peaks. He spent four years stretching and filling his brain at UC Berkeley, where he Majored in Psychology and Minored in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Unfortunately, Cris suffers from obsessive-compulsive-literaria, taking to the pen like many do to the bottle. He struggles significantly with incessant bouts of imagination, impulsive creativity, turrets-esque strings of "why/why not's," and other low-income behaviors. The Murder of White Rabbit by Red Herring is a novella he is currently blog-publishing piece-meal at http://freestories.wordpress.com, and he prods/dissects dramaturgical bodies in his Bay Stage Theatre Blog at http://baystage.blogspot.com.
cmckinney@zspace.org
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VALERIE WEAK (Youth Arts Program Coordinator)
vweak@zspace.org |
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