PRELUDE.12 Team

Caleb Hammons (Curator) is currently the Producer at Soho Rep, where he oversees all mainstage productions, workshops, and readings. Prior to his time at Soho Rep, he was the Producing Director for Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, where he led the development and world premieres of three new works by Young Jean Lee as well as tours of the Company’s work to 30 cities around the world. Additionally, he is the Co-Curator of the acclaimed Catch performance series. Caleb was a member of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance’s inaugural class at Wesleyan University.

Frank Hentschker (Curator) holds a PhD in theater from the Theatre Institute in Giessen, Germany, and joined the faculty of the PhD Program in Theatre at CUNY Graduate Center in 2009. He currently serves as executive director and director of programs at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, an institute for theater based at CUNY Graduate Center.

Helen Shaw (Curator) writes about theatre for Time Out New York, teaches theatre studies at New York University, and is the Associate Director of Programs for the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY. Her criticism has also appeared in TheatreForum, PAJ, the New York Sun, the Jewish Daily Forward and Playbill, and she has served as a dramaturg for Martha Clarke, Simon McBurney, Lear deBessonet, Francois Rochaix and Janos Szasz.

Rachel Silverman (Producer) is the Artistic Administrator at New York Theatre Workshop. At NYTW, she coordinates all programming and artist development activities including  a weekly Monday @ 3 reading series, Larson Lab Studios, summer residencies at Adelphi University and Dartmouth College and NYTW’s Process in Performance conversation series.  Rachel is also the Associate Producer of OBIE-award winning 13P. BA: Wesleyan University, Theater and Sociology.

Rebecca Sheahan (Prelude Director of Administration) is Managing Director of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. She began her career in the Arts at The Market Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rebecca has lived in New York City since 2003, working as Director of Marketing for St. Ann’s Warehouse and 651 ARTS, and as a marketing and PR consultant for various artists and companies. She was a co-producer and marketing consultant for the Prelude Festivals in 2008 and 2009.

Tim Fodness (Technical Director) is a sound designer, sound artist, and producer.  He recently collaborated with sculptor George Turner on the sculptural piece Bertha Mars Fossillator (The Harmonic Crusade or So It Goes) and released an album of original compositions entitled Robert Cane’s Unusual Collection.  He is an assistant engineer at Duro of Brooklyn and the regular sound person at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.  This will be his fifth Prelude Festival.

Brad Krumholz (Technical Director) is co-founder and artistic director of NACL Theatre (North American Cultural Laboratory). Since its founding in 1997, he has created and directed most of its performances, codirected the NACL Catksill Festival of New Theatre for ten seasons, and established the company’s theater center in the Catskills as a retreat for alternative theater creators. He has worked in the field of ensemble experimental theater since 1991, first as a student at Odin Teatret in Denmark, and then with Richard Fowler of Canada’s Primus Theatre. He is currently enrolled in the PhD Program in Theatre at CUNY Graduate Center, has taught acting at City College, and is a teaching fellow at Hunter College.

Sarah Rose Leonard (Design Coordinator/Line Producer for Gershwin Hotel) is a dramaturg and director. She is the Associate to Antje Oegel at AO International and the Next Generation Fellow at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY. Last year Sarah lived in Chile and produced Desorientación, a cross-cultural reading series. Sarah was the Literary Resident at Playwrights Horizons from 2009-2010. She has been the Literary Associate for Page 73 and once was an intern at 13P. Her short play Destino will be shown at Little Theatre @ Dixon Place in November. She was a member of the 2012 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. B.F.A.: NYU’s Playwrights Horizons Theater School (directing).

Lisa McGinn (Production Coordinator) Lisa is excited to be joining the team again after PSM-ing PRELUDE last year. Stage management credits include The Peripherals and Hot Lunch Apostles (Talking Band), Chimera (HERE Arts Center), You, My Mother (Two-Headed Calf), How to Build a Forest (PearlDamour + Shawn Hall); Ivanov and The Seagull (Chekhov at Lake Lucille); Temporal Powers (Mint Theater Company); Once Upon a Time in New Jersey (Prospect Theater); Shakespeare’s Richard II…on Trapeze! (Matchbook Productions/Sonnet Rep); Limonade Tous Les Jours (New Voice Project/the cell theatre, starring Austin Pendleton); Or, and Smudge (Women’s Project), Complete (2009 NYC Fringe Festival). Lisa has also worked regionally at Trinity Repertory Company, Two River Theater Company, Passage Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Playwrights Theatre of NJ, The Old Globe, Charlotte Rep, NJPAC, Berkshire Theatre Festival.

Greg Redlawsk (Stage Manager) is a Director, Stage Manager, and Playwright living and working in NYC, and he is extremely excited to be returning to PRELUDE for a second year. As a Director and Playwright he has had work presented with Theater IN ASYLUM, Emerging Artists Theatre, and Special Sauce Company, and most recently he served as the AD for Ugly Rhino’s Glamdromeda. In addition, he has served as a Teaching Artist with New York Theatre Workshop, where he was also an Artistic/Casting Intern in the fall of 2010. He also worked as an Intern on the Shinsai: Theaters for Japan project spearheaded by the Public Theater.

Brendan Regimbal (Technical Director) is a New York theater artist who has been working in the city since 2004.  He worked as Richard Foreman’s Production/Stage manager and assistant director from 2006-2010.   He is one of the founding members of the Incubator Arts Project where he serves as one of the curators as well as the technical director. He creates work with his partner Samara Naeymi, the last being seen at Incubator Arts Project entitled Aviary.  He has worked with several downtown theater companies and artists including, Big Dance Theater, New York City Players, Elevator Repair Service, Title:Point Productions, 31 Down Radio Theater, The Paper Industry, Sponsored By Nobody, and 3LD.

Mary Spadoni (Stage Manager) recently returned from doing summer stock at Weathervane Theatre in the north woods of New Hampshire. Other credits include: 3LD, The Public Theater, SoHo Rep, 13P, Clubbed Thumb, Goodspeed Musicals, Music Theatre Green Bay, Millbrook Playhouse, and three seasons at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Graduated St. Norbert College, proud member of AEA and writer for www.piesetc.com.

Lisa Szolovits (Festival Production Assistant) is a director, primarily of new plays. She has made work at Ars Nova, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons Resident Workshop, Columbia University, Theatre for the New City, Theatrelab, the Brooklyn Lyceum, and Dixon Place. Lisa moved from Los Angeles to New York for a directing residency at Playwrights Horizons, and has since assisted Leigh Silverman, Trip Cullman, Emily Mann, Sheryl Kaller, Jean-Michele Gregory, Michael Sexton, and Thomas Kail.

Ruth Wikler-Luker (Marketing & Publicity) was formerly the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center’s associate director of programs and now currently serves as its programs consultant from her home base in Portland, Oregon. With a background in the arts ranging from contemporary circus to international arts exchange, she also produces arts projects in Portland under the name Boom Arts (www.boom-arts.com).