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- David Armstrong
- Mr. Armstrong is now in his sixth season as the Producing Artistic Director of The 5th Avenue Theatre, where he has directed acclaimed productions of SWEENEY TODD, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, HAIR, THE SECRET GARDEN, ANYTHING GOES, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW and YANKEE DOODLE DANDY which he also wrote. During his time in Seattle the 5th has gained national recognition as a leader in the development and production of new musicals. Over the last six seasons the 5th has produced five world-premieres including the THE WEDDING SINGER and the Tony Award winning Broadway hit HAIRSPRAY. Prior to moving to Seattle, David spent nearly 20 years as a freelance director, playwright, and producer working in New York, Los Angeles and at many of the leading regional theaters throughout America. Most recently he wrote and directed a new Off-Broadway musical version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL that played to great acclaim in New York during this past holiday season. Mr. Armstrong is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.
- Alan S. Brown
- Alan Brown is a noted author, researcher and management consultant in the nonprofit arts industry. Prior to forming his own consulting practice, Alan served as President of Audience Insight LLC and Associate Principal of AMS Planning & Research Corp., where he studied audiences, visitors and patterns of cultural participation in almost every major market in the U.S. His work focuses on understanding consumer behaviors related to arts participation and raising the profile of consumer research in the arts industry as a whole.
- From 2000 to 2002, he directed the Classical Music Consumer Segmentation Study for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and 15 orchestras, the largest private study of classical music audiences ever undertaken in the U.S. In 2003, he designed and facilitated The Values Study, a groundbreaking participatory research project involving teams of board and staff members from 20 Connecticut arts organizations working in the fields of dance, theatre, classical music and visual arts. Based on this work, Alan was called upon to assist The Wallace Foundation in planning its dissemination efforts for Gifts of the Muse, a study of the benefits of arts activities conducted by RAND.
- Within the past two years, Alan has directed proprietary studies for Disney Theatrical Productions, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Joyce Theater, the Aspen Music Festival and the University Musical Society, among others. Currently, he is leading a consortium of 15 university presenters in a groundbreaking study of the values and motivations driving attendance and donation.
- Martin Charnin
- Mr. Charnin has been the director, lyricist, composer, librettist, producer or combination of the aforementioned for over 75 theatrical productions including Annie, The First, I Remember Mama, and Two By Two. Charnin has received four Tony nominations, two Tony awards, six Grammy Awards, three Emmy Awards, three Gold Records, two Platinum Records, six Drama Desk Awards, and a Peabody Award for Broadcasting.
- Justin Harris
- Justin Harris is a Financial Advisor with KMS Financial Services. He has an extensive background in the arts, and understands why artists can neglect and avoid their finances – often with unpleasant consequences. He enjoys working with art organizations throughout the city, and is up to the challenge of inspiring artists to attend to their finances!
- Robb Hunt
- Robb Hunt (Executive Producer) has been the producer of Village Theatre since 1979. He is dedicated to commissioning and developing new musicals and has been the driving force in the inclusion of new musicals in Village Theatre’s seasons. He is active with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and has served on its Board of Directors. Robb has produced and collaborated on the development of over 60 new musicals. Of those new musicals, he has produced staged readings of Eleanor, Book of James, Jungle Queen Debutante, Making Tracks and Glimmerglass, and others at the Alliance Festival of New Musicals in New York.
- Stacee Nault
- Stacee Raber Nault holds a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts and currently resides in Seattle. She lived in New York City for 9 years and has performed on Broadway, on Tour and in Regional Theatre for 15 years. During that time she taught master dance classes to children and adults throughout the country. She has choreographed and directed for various professional and educational institutions in New York, LA, and Seattle.
- Peggy Shaw
- A three-time OBIE award-winner for her work with the lesbian theater company, Split Britches, actor, playwright, and producer Peggy Shaw has been thrashing gender boundaries and comfort zones ever since her performance career began at age 31 when she began working with the drag queen street theater group Hot Peaches in the West Village of New York. Despite her lack of formal theatrical training, Shaw went on to found Split Britches in 1980 with Lois Weaver and Deb Margolin. She also collaborated with the London-based group BlooLips. Shaw has been pressing theater boundaries with critical acclaim for over 30 years, teaching and performing around the world.
- She won OBIEs for her performances in “Dress Suits to Hire,” a collaboration with Holly Hughes, “Belle Reprieve,” a collaboration with the London-based theater troupe BlooLips, and “Menopausal Gentleman,” directed by Rebecca Taichman. In the mid 1980’s she co-founded the OBIE award-winning WOW Café in New York City.
- Shaw received the 2000-2001 Rockefeller MAP Grant to create her new show To My Chagrin. She is a three-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts award for Emerging Forms, and won the 1995 Anderson Foundation Stonewall Award for excellence in “making the world a better place for gays and lesbians” and a 2003 Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre. The Foundation for Contemporary Performance recently awarded Peggy with Theatre Performer of the Year. Michigan Press will publish a new book on Peggy, edited by Jill Dolan, that will include the scripts for You’re Just Like My Father, Menopausal Gentlemen and To My Chagrin.
- Peggy is currently touring her new show To My Chagrin, which she created through a Rockefeller Map Grant in collaboration with musician and sound designer Vivian Stoll, directed by Lois Weaver. Split Britches are also a part of Staging Human Rights, where they work in prisons in Rio De Janeiro and England.
- Charles Waxberg
- Director, playwright, actor, and author has been teaching in professional programs and in private practice since 1981. His book, The Actor's Script--Script Analysis for Performers was published by Heinemann Books in 1998 and is now in its eighth printing. He was first invited to teach acting and playwriting at Carnegie-Mellon University (where he holds his M.F.A.) when New York City's Roundabout Theatre imported him to create and serve as Conservatory Director and instructor of the Roundabout Theatre Conservatory. During his tenure there, he was also Associate Casting Director for two seasons.
- After observing a class with the legendary Stella Adler, Charles joined the Stella Adler Conservatory's faculty as a specialist in Script Analysis and eventually became Program Director. He taught script analysis, scene study, and directed projects for the conservatory as well as New York University's Tisch School of the Arts B.F.A program. During this time, he was honored to sit at Miss Adler's side for a good deal of the last five years of her New York City teaching absorbing, her techniques and studying her profoundly insightful eye.
- After 11 years with Miss Adler's New York City school, he joined the faculty of her Los Angeles Academy where he taught Professional Scene Study, basic and advanced Script Analysis, and directed the Showcase class. He taught and served as Creative Director there for 7 years before moving to Seattle to focus again on theatre, his first passion rather than film and television.
2006 TPS Fall Forum
On the Front Lines
October 21 - 22, 2006
Saturday: 10am - 6pm;
Sunday: 11am - 5:30pm
Seattle University
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