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Administrative Staff

  • David Polk

    Director of Administration

  • Ashleigh Arrington (She/Her)

    Database & Analytics Senior Manager

  • Luke Mullinax (He/Him)

    Facilities & IT Manager

  • Nia Savoy-Dock (She/Her)

    HR & Business Senior Manager

Artistic

  • Kathryn Chase Bryer

    Director of Theatre

  • Randy Snight (He/him)

    Casting Director & Assistant Producer

  • Tony Thomas

    Artist-in-Residence

Theatre for Change

  • Hilda Tijerina (She/Her/Hers)

    Theatre for Change Senior Manager

Access & Inclusion

  • Shanna Sorrells (she/her/they/them)

    Access & Inclusion Senior Manager

  • Hannah Breen (she/her)

    Access & Inclusion Coordinator

Education

  • Nikki Kaplan (She/Her)

    Director of Education

  • Bekah Elles (She/Her/Ella)

    Associate Director of Off-Site Partnerships

  • Pamela Freedy

    Education Programs Senior Manager

  • Alison Gee (She/Her)

    Senior Faculty: Onsite Education

  • Benjamin Kapit

    Manager of Digital Media

  • Torin Lusorio (He/Him)

    School Partnerships Manager

  • Ashlee McKinnon

    Senior Faculty: Dance

  • Sami Topping (She/her)

    Education Program Manager

  • Enrique Vargas (He/Him)

    Senior Faculty: School Partnerships

  • Zora Allison (She/Her)

    Education Program Management & Facilitation Apprentice

Development

  • Emma Cummings (She/Her)

    Development Manager

  • Gabriella Giegerich (She/Her)

    Development Coordinator/Board Liaison

Marketing & Communications

  • Laurie Levy-Page (she/hers)

    Senior Director of Marketing and Communications

  • Shera Sacks

    Marketing and Communications Senior Manager

  • Jared Michael Swain (He/Him)

    Community Partnerships Manager

  • Liana SC (She/Her)

    Marketing Content Manager

Patron Services

  • Onnie “J.R.” Watson (He/Him)

    Sales & Guest Experience Senior Manager

  • Darcy Fowler

    Guest Experience Manager

  • Emilee Rae Hibshman (she/her/hers)

    Registrar

  • Sam Hoderlein (He/Him)

    Field Trip & Audience Development Manager

  • Daniel Sanclemente (He/Him)

    Administrative Coordinator

Production

  • Christopher Gerling (He/him)

    Director of Production

  •  Dominic DeSalvio

    Production Electrician and Lighting Programmer

  • Cody Estep (He/Him)

    Stage & Production Management Apprentice

  • Topher Gaut (He/Him)

    Lead Carpenter

  • Josie Guevara-Torres (she/her)

    Costume Shop Manager

  • Carolyn Hampton

    Scenic Charge Artist

  • Samantha Leahan

    Resident Stage Manager

  • Gustavo Lima (He/Him)

    Sound Engineer

  • Andrea “Dre” Moore

    Resident Props Designer

  • Sarah Phillips

    Assistant Scenic Charge Artist

  • Jennifer Shillingburg (she/her)

    Resident Carpenter

  • Jesse Shipley (she/her)

    Assistant Costume Shop Manager/Props Supervisor

  • Stephen Walkiewicz

    Lighting, Sound, and Video Manager

  • Paige Washington (They/Them)

    Associate Production Manager

Founders

  • Bonnie Fogel

    Imagination Stage Founder

  • Janet Stanford

    Founding Artistic Director

Presidents Emeritus

  • Patrick O’Neil

  • George Little

  • Kim Greenfield Alfonso

  • Jane Fairweather

  • Susan Lacz

  • Mark Richardson

  • Wayne Hunley

  • Stephen A. Hayes*

  • Sally Rosenburg

  • Robert G. Brewer, Jr.

  • J.J. Finkelstein

  • Mita Schaffer

  • Nancy T. Greenspan

  • Jerry Morenoff*

  • Barbara J. Gottschalk

  • Gail L. Jacobs

  • Frank Allen Philpot

Presidents Emeritus (DC)

  • Nichole Francis Reynolds

  • Kim W. Barnette, PhD

  • Kim Greenfield Alfonso

Legal Counsel

  • Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chtd.

Advisory Circle Members

  • Claire Durán

    Claire Durán Weddings and Events

  • Mike Patel

    Primrose Schools

  • Amber Romine

    Pond Leadership Group

  • Carolyn Schugar

    U.S. Department of Defense

  • Katie Sheketoff

    Marriott International

  • Dr. Joshua Starr

    Education Advisor

    The Center for Model Schools

  • Antonio Tijerino

    Hispanic Heritage Foundation

  • Maura White

  • Mark Williams

    The Inclusion Channel

Board of Trustees (MD)

  • Kim W. Barnette, PhD

    Board President

    LMI at NASA

  • Cathy Bernard 

    HCM Corporation

  • Marlinda Boxley

    The Actors’ Center

  • Shawn Davis-Wilensky

    IDEA Co-Chair

    Foxhall OB/GYN Associates

  • Brian Drujak

    Deloitte

  • Camille Fesche

    Rifkin Weiner Livingston, LLC

  • Bonnie Fogel

    Imagination Stage Founder

  • Thalia Goldstein

    George Mason University

  • Randy Gore

    Campagna Center

  • David Hurwitz

    Programming and Engagement Chair

    Ameriprise Finanacial

  • Michelle Johnstone

    President-Elect

    National Real Estate Advisors

  • Kirsten Jones

  • Jenna Lanier

    Lanier Landscapes

  • Joanne Lamparter

    Chief Artistic Programming Officer

    Imagination Stage

  • Kuri Levine (she/her)

    Author of AUTISM WITH A SIDE OF SUSHI

  • Kate Linde-Kogan

    Treasurer

    DAI

  • Carola Mandelbaum

    Secretary

    School-to-School Initiative

  • Melinda Holliday McDonald

    IDEA Co-Chair

    Merit Systems Protection Board

  • Nivedita Misra

    Governance Chair

    Kaiser Permanente

  • Jaclyn Rapaport

    Lerner Enterprises

  • Jessica Rapoport

  • Paula Ross

    Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce

  • Margo Sadow

    ISDC Liaison

  • Jessica A. Springsteen

    Gala Co-Chair

    Clifford Chance US LLP

  • Janet Stanford

    Founding Artistic Director

Board of Trustees (DC)

  • Yasemin Washington

    DC Board President

    American Association of State Colleges and Universities

  • Lauren Benning-Williams

    George Washington University

  • Candice Tolliver Burns

    IDEA Public Schools

  • Raquel Carson

    President-Elect

    MCPS

  • Chelsey Christensen

    Secretary

    My School DC

  • Jason Fink

    Office of Mayor Bowser

  • Bonnie Fogel

    Imagination Stage Founder

  • Marnique Heath

    STUDIOS Architecture

  • Bruce Johnson

    Avatar Salon & Wellness Spa

  • Joanne Lamparter

    Chief Artistic Programming Officer

    Imagination Stage

  • Ivan Lanier

    Treasurer

    Pepco

  • Arthur Mola

    Cardozo Education Campus

  • Nichole Francis Reynolds

    Immediate Past President, ISDC

    ServiceNow

  • Janet Stanford

    Founding Artistic Director

  • Rebecca Weiner

    Rebecca Weiner Group of Compass

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