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MICHAEL BARKER (Assoc. Managing Director) comes to the Playhouse from The Antaeus Company in North Hollywood, where he served as Managing Director. Before moving to California, he was Associate Managing Director at Yale Repertory Theatre, Managing Director of Yale Summer Cabaret, and produced the third annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays. He was the 2008 Managing Director Fellow at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Prior to graduate school, he was Associate Director of Marketing for Court Theatre, producing classics in residence at the University of Chicago. Also in Chicago, he worked with The Goodman Theatre, American Theater Company, Sansculottes Theater Company, and The Playground Theater. He holds an MFA in theater management from Yale School of Drama and an MBA from Yale School of Management. He lives in Long Beach with his wife Heidi, a costume designer working in television and film. Photo credit: Carolyn Potz |
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DONNA INGLIMA (Director of Education) is a director, writer, teacher, producer and actress. For The Laguna Playhouse, she has directed 20 plays and has built our outreach program, TheatreReach: Bringing Books to Life, adapting children’s books The Sign of the Beaver, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Give a Boy a Gun, and By the Great Horn Spoon! into plays for a curriculum-based elementary school touring program. Inglima also wrote and published the student Study Guides that accompany each TheatreReach production that are provided to the schools for student use. Inglima was on the Drama Faculty of Syracuse University, Utica College and the American Musical and Drama Academy of New York, where she developed five improvisation comedy troupes. Inglima was also the Artistic Associate for the American Playwrights Theatre in New York, and Director of the Apprentice Program at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. She founded Animal Crackers Unlimited, a troupe that produced over 30 plays for adults and youth. She is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and also of Actors’ Equity Association. Inglima received her MFA in Theatre from Syracuse University. |
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JIM PRODGER (Operations Director) Returning to Southern California (USC ’87 MFA Scenic and Costume Design), Jim joined the Playhouse staff in August 2010. Jim brings over thirty years’ experience in Art Direction, Production Management and Design for Theatre, Film, Television, Dance and Opera, working extensively across the United States (Telluride Repertory Theatre, Knoxville and Tulsa Operas, HGTV, HBO, Dogwood Entertainment and BBC America, Savannah Philharmonic, Choral Society and Savannah Danse Theatre, to name a few); and in Europe (Budapest, Hungary and Bratislava, Slovenia (The International Theatre Artists Program - Clarence Brown Company and University of Tennessee Theatres). Jim is especially proud to be part of the Playhouse family as we head toward our Centennial season celebration! |
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GREG RENOE (Marketing & Communications Director) - For the last 4 years Greg has been the Marketing & Communications Director for The Laguna Playhouse and formerly the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Greg’s successes in management include accomplishments in the diverse fields of advertising, marketing, PR, fundraising, operations, finance, HR and legal administration. He has a proven track record of consistently engaging top-tier industry and consumer media outlets while generating “buzz" and sustainable revenue through non-traditional media and first-of-its-kind creative partnerships, programs and events. |
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