Our Team
Staff
Emily Rankin, Artistic Director: click for bio.
Katie Olivant, Managing Director
Nicholas Ballas, Artistic Advisor.
Robert Benedetti, Artistic Advisor
Anne Gallagher, House Manager
Jennifer Graves, Box Office Manager
Skip Rapoport, Lighting Designer
Lynn Roylance, Company Photographer
Hania Stocker, Technical Director
Board of Directors
William Michener, Chair, is a retired Professor with expertise in information science and project management.
Nicholas “Nico” Ballas, Vice Chair, performed in repertory theaters in New England, earned an MFA from CalArts, and has appeared in dozens of film and TV projects, most notably three seasons of ROSWELL, NM as the curmudgeonly Walt Sanders. He has worked with most of the local and regional theater companies in Santa Fe and for the past decade he has devoted his creative energies to the Actors Lab, as an actor, director and most recently as Artistic Director.
Anne Gallagher, Treasurer, has held senior executive positions in large and small multinational organizations both in the US and Europe. Anne is a Broadway producer, most notably, of the award-winning, profitable and Tony-nominated Say Goodnight, Gracie and has served on the Board of The Flea Theatre.
Katie Olivant, Secretary and Managing Director, is a former administrator and professor at California State University, Stanislaus.
Marti Burt worked for 35 years at the Urban Institute. Since moving to Santa Fe, she has focused mostly on forwarding the social issues she cares about.
Joey Chavez is an actor, director, and playwright. He founded the New Mexico School for the Arts and was nominated for a Tony award for excellence in Theater Education.
J.R. Damron was a practicing physician for over 50 years, and is the founder and President of Normad Group, Inc., a commercial development company.
Danielle is an actor, theater-maker, and somatic movement practitioner.
Hania Stocker
Wendi Strong is a retired corporate communications executive who loves theater.
Advisory Board
Joel Aalberts, Executive Director, Lensic Performing Arts Center
Stuart Ashman, Executive Director, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe
Bob Balzer, Founder, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Barbara Burnett, Emmy Award-winning television and stage actress and founding member of The Santa Fe Theater Lovers Club.
John Flax, Founding Artistic Director, Theater Grottesco
Joshua Freilich, President, Western Optical Supply, Inc.
Bruce Larsen, Regent, Museum of New Mexico; Trustee, Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Patsy Phillips, Cherokee Nation, Director, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Jonathan Richards, Critic, author, actor, director, cartoonist
Robyn Rikoon, Artistic Director, Santa Fe Playhouse
Robin Williams, Director, iReadShakespeare.org; co-founder of International Shakespeare Center Santa Fe
Jill Cooper Udall, Attorney, arts activist and aspiring author
Advisory Council
Ted Danson, Michael Gross, Ed Harris, Hugh Jackman, Ali MacGraw