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Aimée Hayes, Artistic Director
ahayes@southernrep.com
As Artistic Director of Southern Rep, Hayes has focused on new play development with the launch of a monthly PLAYLAB; the CROSSTOWN READING SERIES for local new plays; 6x6, a monthly play slam; the NEW PLAY BACCHANAL; and The RUBY PRIZE, an annual $10K new play award for a female playwright of color. At Southern Rep she has directed the World Premieres of SICK, AFTERLIFE and WITH A BANG, and the regional premieres of IN THE NEXT ROOM (or THE VIBRATOR PLAY), THE CLEAN HOUSE, SPEECH & DEBATE, and GREY GARDENS. Locally Hayes produced and directed three seasons of the RED LIGHT DISTRICT VARIETY SHOW at Le Chat Noir, and THE UPRISING in a co-production with Le Chat Noir. A key member of Vital Theatre Company in NYC, Hayes directed and produced new works. She has also served as an Artistic Associate at The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane. As a member of the National New Play Network, Hayes has served on the Showcase of New Plays panel and twice directed in the MFA Playwright Showcase at the Kennedy Center. Panels and other associations include: the National Endowment for the Arts, the MAP Fund, the Arts Council of New Orleans and ArtsReady. Hayes was a directing intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville under Jon Jory. She earned her directing MFA from Tulane University, and an English BA magna cum laude from Loyola University. Hayes was one of New Orleans Magazine’s 2008 People to Watch. She serves as a board member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for non-profit theatres.
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Marieke Gaboury, Managing Director
mgaboury@southernrep.com
Marieke Gaboury (Managing Director) has recently relocated to New Orleans from New York City, where she was Producing Director of LAByrinth Theater Company, having worked for seven years with former Co-Artistic Directors John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman, developing and producing work by some of the most distinguished theatre artists in the country. Also a member artist of LAByrinth, Marieke has a background as a director, writer, actor and teaching artist. As a director, her work has been seen in Off Broadway venues in NYC, including with LAB at The Public Theater, as well on the west coast. Her screenplay The Hard Place is currently in development with Twenty2Films. Training includes Southern Oregon University and American Conservatory Theatre.
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Sarah Zoghbi, Marketing and Box Office Manager
szoghbi@southernrep.com
boxoffice@southernrep.com
Sarah Zoghbi’s previous staff roles at Southern Rep include AEA Production Stage Manager and Arts Education Director. Since relocating to Louisiana in 2005, and to New Orleans in 2007, she has also worked professionally as a Company Manager, Director, Props Master, Puppet Maker, Sound Foley, Mask Maker, Set Designer, and Teacher for theatres including Swine Palace, LePetit Theatre, Le Chat Noir, the NOLA Fringe, Neutral Ground Ensemble, New Noise, The Elm Theatre, and The NOLA Project. Her cross-country theatre education and experience in California, Oklahoma, Ohio, Texas, and Louisiana have employed her in a sundry of other behind the scenes positions from make-up design to live stage horse wrangler! A magna cum laude graduate of theatre studies, Sarah is dedicated to supporting the excellence of local theatre. |
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Ann Mahoney Kadar, Arts Education Director
education@southernrep.com
Ann Mahoney Kadar is a native New Orleanian, happy to back in her hometown, and thrilled to be a part of the Southern Repertory staff. Ann is an accomplished regional theatre actress, selected credits include Southern Repertory Theatre (Samantha in Cloning Judson), Berkshire Theatre Festival (Agnes in Eric Hill’s adaptation of A Dream Play), Long Wharf Theatre (Ophelia in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead), and Connecticut Repertory Theatre (Hamlet in Hamlet; Charity in Sweet Charity; Harper Pitt in Angels in America Millennium & Perestroika, among others). She also works in film/tv frequently, with credits including supporting roles in Big Momma’s House 2, Frankenstein (USA), Snow Wonder (CBS), Thief (F/X), and the upcoming HART OF DIXIE on the CW Network. She was the Drama Department Director at the Asheville Arts Center, a conservatory for actors ages 7-18, where she directed the MTI JUNIOR THEATRE FESTIVAL award-winning productions of Once on this Island, Jr, and The Pirates of Penzance, Jr. Regionally, Ann’s direction of The Sunken Living Room won the 2005 Southern Repertory Theatre new plays festival. In addition, she has directed for Connecticut Repertory Theatre and Delgado Community College. Ann received her B.A. in Theatre Arts from Greensboro College, focusing on the Stanislavski and Meisner techniques. Her M.F.A. in acting was received from the University of CT, under the mentorship of Eric Hill, and focused on The Suzuki Method of Actor Training. Ann has taught at the University of Connecticut, Delgado Community College, Loyola University, and Southern Repertory Theatre.
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Chris Kaminstein, YO NOLA Leader
ckaminstein@southernrep.com
Chris Kaminstein is a teacher, actor, writer, and director who originally hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chris works part-time as an arts -integration teacher for KIDsmART, a New Orleans based education company specializing in combining core classroom content with the arts. He is co-artistic director of Goat in the Road Productions, an emerging New Orleans theater company devoted to creating new work, fostering the growth of local theater artists, and educational outreach. Goat in the Road is in their third year running Play/Write, a program that teaches playwriting to elementary school students, culminating in a showcase of student work. The company has also premiered a number of original plays over the last three years, including Whatever Just Happened, Didn't Happen (2008 State of the Nation Festival), Our Man (2010 New Orleans Fringe Festival), The Don Effect, and co-produced Major Swelling's Salvation Salve Medicine Show with the Cripple Creek Theater Company. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University in theater studies, and has many years experience teaching improvisation, writing, acting, and movie making to elementary, middle, and high school. In addition, he has performed with a variety of theater organizations in New Orleans, including Southern Rep (at Le Chat Noir), Cripple Creek, Artspot, and NEW NOISE.
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Lesley DeMartin, Box Office Assistant
boxoffice@southernrep.com
Leslie DeMartin is excited to join the staff of Southern Rep! She hails from the Jersey Shore and is a recent graduate of Bard College where she earned her bachelors in music with a concentration in vocal performance. Her vocal credits include singing with the Bard College Chamber Singers, the Princeton Festival Chorus, the Collegiate Chorale, and the Bard Music Festival. Her operatic credits include scenes in the Bard College Opera Workshop, chorus work with the Bard Masters in Voca Arts Program, and singing lead roles in two world premiere operas, one composed by an up and coming Bard composer and another arranged and written by a prospective opera director. Her solo credits include performing with the Bard College Chambe Singers and the American Symphony Orchestra. Before moving to New Orleans, she was Front of House Manager at the Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College. She is currently working on her masters in music therapy at Loyola University New Orleans.
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Colleen Gowland, Sea Level Design
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