NEW BOARD MEMBERS JOIN STAGESOURCE

(Boston, MA) – StageSource, The Greater Boston Theatre Alliance, welcomes the addition of six new board members since January 2008. New to the 28 member “congress of the theatre community” are Janet M. Bailey, President, Janet Bailey Associates; Patrick Gabridge, playwright; Temple Gill, Director of Marketing, Huntington Theatre Company; Antonio Ocampo-Guzman, actor, director and teacher; Drew Murphy, President, Broadway Across America/Boston; and Cheryl Singleton, actor.

StageSource Executive Director Jeff Poulos noted, “These six people so acutely represent the rich diverse cross-section of artists, theatres and enthusiasts in Greater Boston. By inaugurating a playwright, actors, educators, marketing and producing professionals, StageSource is gaining such valuable additions to the leadership ‘think tank’. StageSource Board president David Colfer and I are delighted to have them join an already notable group of 22 other hard working individuals serving their community in such a meaningful way.”

Janet M. Bailey
Janet M. Bailey has an extensive career spanning both strategic consulting and direct line management in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. She is currently President of her own consulting practice, Janet Bailey Associates, which provides marketing, strategic, development, organizational, and communications consulting services to organizations in the arts and nonprofit sectors.  Recent and current clients include organizations of all sizes that are engaged in theater, classical music, opera, dance, and visual arts, along with several educational institutions, collaborative arts consortiums, funding organizations, performing arts facilities, and arts service organizations. Prior to starting her own practice in 1997, Janet served for five years as General Manager and Director of Marketing for the Handel & Haydn Society. Earlier in her career she spent five years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in their New York office and in several locations in Latin America, advising major corporations in a variety of industries on matters of organization and strategy.  She subsequently served in several line-management positions with the Times Mirror Corporation, working as Operations Director and General Manager in two of Times Mirror’s cable-television subsidiaries.   Janet has been extensively involved in the leadership of professional associations and volunteer activities throughout her career, and has served in the past as President of the Boston Arts Marketing Alliance, the Boston Ballet Volunteer Association, and the Boston chapter of Women in Cable.  She currently serves on the Corporation Board of the Community Music Center of Boston and on the Boston Steering Committee of the National Arts Marketing Project. She holds B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Boston University. She is currently on the faculty of BU’s graduate program in Arts Administration and is the recipient of the 2007 Deveau Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.  www.JanetBaileyAssociates.com

Patrick Gabridge
Patrick has worked in the Boston area with Rough & Tumble (Pieces of Whitey), Out of the Blue (Blinders at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and Flight, Insomnia and Den of Iniquity in the Boston Theater Marathon), CentaStage (Xmas Files and Plays on Tap), Devanaughn Theatre, South City Theatre, Another Country, TYG, Underground Railway Theatre (Stop Rain in the Marathon), among others. His first novel, Tornado Siren, was recently by published Behler Publications. He co-founded Boston’s Rhombus writers’ group in 2003, and also started the on-line Playwright Submission Binge Group, the Chameleon Stage theatre (Denver), Bare Bones Productions theatre company (New York), and the newsletter, Market InSight for Playwrights. His plays have been produced in theatres across the U.S. (and in England and Mexico) are published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Smith & Kraus, and Volcano Quarterly. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Temple Gill
Temple Gill is currently the Director of Marketing at the Huntington Theatre Company, and has previously served as the director of marketing and public relations at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston and the former Market Theater in Harvard Square.  Prior to moving to Boston, she was an associate producer of the Broadway production of Hedda Gabler and a co-producer of Flower Drum Song starring Lea Salonga, as well as the producing associate of the Tony Award-winning revivals of The Real Thing and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest starring Gary Sinise, and many others.  She received her A.B. from Princeton and her M.F.A. in Theatrical Producing and Management from Columbia, and is the president of the Boston Arts Marketing Alliance.  She lives in the South End with her husband and two sons.

Drew Murphy
Drew Murphy currently serves as the President of Broadway Across America/Boston, where he oversees the presentation of the Broadway Series and the operation of the Colonial Theatre and Charles Playhouse.  Also with Broadway Across America, he served as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in New York, overseeing the operations of its theaters, after having been Regional Vice President of their West Coast office in Seattle and responsible for theatrical programming. Prior to that, he served as General Manager and in charge of theatrical programming for the John F. Kennedy Center, Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles, and the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.  He started his career in New York with the General Management firm of Gatchell & Neufeld, Inc.

Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
Antonio Ocampo-Guzman, an actor, director and teacher from Bogotá, Colombia, currently serves on the faculty of the Department of Theatre at Northeastern University. Antonio trained with the Teatro Libre in Colombia and in voice and physical theater in England. He spent three years as an actor and an artist-manager at Shakespeare & Company, and in 1998, he completed training as a voice teacher with Kristin Linklater and has adapted this practice into Spanish. He teaches at the Estudio Corazza para el Actor in Madrid, Spain, and serves as a consultant for the Center for Voice Studies (CEUVOZ) in Mexico City, where he runs a Linklater Voice Teacher-training Program. He is a member of the Voice & Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) and currently serves as its Director of Membership and Chair of Diversity Committee. Antonio earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing in 2003 from York University in Toronto, Ontario, and concurrently received a Graduate Diploma in Voice. He has directed plays for Shakespeare Now!, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, Dixon Place, Teatro Libre, Arizona State University, Florida State University, Tallahassee Little Theatre, York University, Emerson College, The Theatre Offensive, Stages Theatre Company, The Pato Farsante Company, and The British Council. Several of Antonio’s articles and essays about his experiences as a bilingual theatre artist have been published in, among others, American Theatre Magazine, the Voice & Speech Review, the Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia, Paso de Gato (Mexico) Back Stage East, Dramatics Magazine and the online journal Borrowers and Lenders. He is featured in Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives in Race & Performance.  Recent acting work includes Sebastian in The Tempest and Salisbury in King John, with Actors’ Shakespeare Project; and five roles in Dario Fo’s We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay, for the Nora Theatre.  Antonio has also been on the faculty at Arizona State University, Florida State University, Emerson College and Boston College. He has taught workshops and master classes at Walnut Hill, Shakespeare & Company, The Linklater Studio, The Andrea Southwick Studio, The New Theatre Conservatory, FSU Asolo Theatre Conservatory, the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, the Concord Players, Working Classroom and the Hampshire Shakespeare Company. Internationally, he has taught in Ireland, Canada, Greece, Sweden, Panama and Colombia.

Cheryl D. Singleton
Cheryl D. Singleton has been a professional actress for many years. Before moving to Boston in 1986, she lived in her hometown of Brooklyn, NY where she also served as business manager for a small theater company in Greenwich Village and worked as a stage manager and dresser at The American Place Theater and The Women's Project. In 1986 she relocated to Boston with DALBAR, Inc., where she served as a full-time IT professional until 2008. Since moving to Boston she has performed as an improviser in various shows at ImprovBoston and in theater and improv festivals in New York, Chicago and Toronto. Cheryl has also performed with Zeitgeist Stage Company, Ryan Landry and The Gold Dust Orphans, Queer Soup, Theater Coop; understudied at The Huntington; and lent her acting and voiceover talents to commercials and industrials. She is also a founding member of Adam's Rib, an all-female sketch and improv troupe.

For a complete list and to learn more about the StageSource Board of Directors, go here.

updated December 15, 2008

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