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Urban Stages Theater
259 West 30th Street (bet 7th and 8th Avenues)
For tickets, call Smarttix: 212.868.4444
Urban Stages Adm. Office:
555 8th Avenue, #1800
212.421.1380
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ABOUT OUR LEADERSHIP AND STAFF
Board of Directors, 2009-2010
Mary Churchill, Peter Connick, Marjorie Federbush, Joanne V. Graham, Ellie Hartz, Frances Hill, Thomas Hehman, John Mueller, Peggy O’Brien, Lynn San Andres, Martha Sproule, Stanley Zareff
Urban Stages Staff
Frances Hill l (Founding Artistic Director) began her theatrical career in California as an actress. Since 1983, Ms. Hill has overseen more than 600 staged readings/workshops and 75 productions of new work for the stage. She has directed over 30 workshops and productions. Her favorite directing credits include: Gino DiIorio’s Apostasy, Roma Greth’s Our Summer Days, Jim Lehrer’s Chili Queen, (directed at Urban Stages and Kennedy Center), John Picardi’s Seven Rabbits on a Pole and The Sweepers (directed at Urban Stages and Capital Rep); and Comfort Women by Chugmi Kim (Urban Stages 2004). Two of her plays have been produced, Our Bench and Life Lines. Under the guidance of Ms. Hill, Playwrights’ Preview Productions/URBAN STAGES has moved two plays into commercial Off-Broadway successes. Minor Demons opened the new Century Center Theater and Men on the Verge of His-Panic Breakdown won an Outer Critic’s Circle Award while playing to capacity audiences at the 47th Street Theater. Urban Stages’ African American Poets as Playwrights won eight Audelco Nominations and Coyote On a Fence received two Drama Desk nominations and a Pilgrim’s Project Award.
Lauren Schmiedel (Managing Director) For the past 12 years, Lauren has worked in several areas of professional theatre as producer, director, company manager, stage manager, house manager, development associate, and in entertainment law. She began her career with Broadway General Managers Marvin Krauss and Manny Kladitis, whom she continued working with throughout her undergraduate education. She has worked with Tony Randall’s National Actors Theatre (Judgment at Nuremberg; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui), spent five years with the entertainment law firm Brooks & Distler, and has directed and produced numerous independent productions throughout New York City. Lauren holds a BA in Theatre (Directing Concentration) from Marymount Manhattan College (Outstanding Achievement in Directing recipient, 2002). MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University School of the Arts (Shubert Presidential Fellow) May, 2009.
Lori Ann Laster (Program Director) has been with Urban Stages since 2005. She is an arts writer, playwright, arts educator and dramaturg. She began her arts writing career in 2005 as a staff writer, covering dance and theatre, for the international performing arts magazine The Arts Cure, and is currently an Affiliated Writer for American Theatre. Her play The Blue Bird (co-written with Stanton Wood) was produced at Urban Stages December 2008. She has taught dance and drama for the Salvation Army and the YMCA and writing at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. Lori received her MFA in Dramaturgy from Brooklyn College and attended undergraduate school at the State University of New York at Purchase.
Joe Trentacosta, Springer Associates PR (Publicist)
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