Staff
Senior Staff
Jeff Bazemore
Senior Production Manager
Ashton Beck
Senior Director of Marketing, Communications & Sales
Rachel Harrington
HR Manager
Judy Leventhal
Chief Financial Officer
Sean-Maurice Lynch
Senior Director of Community Engagement & Audience Experience
Noreen Major
Chief Development Officer
Alicia Sells
General Manager
Reggie D. White
Senior Director of Artistic Strategy & Impact
Keaun Windear
Director of Facilities & Operations
Jeff Bazemore
Senior Production Manager
Ashton Beck
Senior Director of Marketing, Communications & Sales
Ashton Beck is a growth-focused, results-driven marketing leader with extensive experience in brand strategy, digital marketing, and communications. Currently serving as Senior Director of Marketing, Communications & Sales at Arena Stage, he leads innovative campaigns to drive engagement and revenue. Ashton’s background includes serving as Marketing Director at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, where he developed integrated marketing strategies and analyzed market trends to boost brand awareness. He also excelled as Director of Social Media at Elasticity, where he enhanced client engagement and social media presence. Ashton holds an MBA from Webster University and a Bachelor's in Communication from the University of St. Louis.
Rachel Harrington
HR Manager
Judy Leventhal
Chief Financial Officer
Judy Leventhal has a proven success record as an arts administrator and financial manager for achieving cost savings for multi-million-dollar organizations and developing and implementing efficient processes. She has worked with large and small organizations for over a decade, offering expert strategic planning, budgeting, compliance, and grant writing. Throughout her career, Leventhal has led teams and worked with the Board of Trustees’ Finance, Audit, and Investment Committees. She has served as Director of Finance at both Symphony Space (New York, NY) and McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, NJ), as well as Vice President and CFO at Big Apple Circus (New York, NY). Leventhal has also worked with The New 42nd Street/The New Victory Theater, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, ArtConnection, USC Radio, WNYC Communications Group, New York City Department of General Services, and Arthur Andersen & Company. She holds an MPA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sean-Maurice Lynch
Senior Director of Community Engagement & Audience Experience
Sean-Maurice Lynch is a Washington, D.C. based theater producer, arts administrator, community organizer, director and actor who currently serves as Senior Director of Community Engagement & Audience Experience at Arena Stage leading education and community outreach programming. Since 2007, Sean-Maurice has been a teaching artist for Arena Stage instructing acting techniques. In 2013, he received the Allen Lee Hughes Senior Fellowship. As the Senior Education and School Programs fellow, where he helped manage the DC Ticket Partnership, developing theater educational materials. In 2014, he traveled to India with the Arena Stage Voices of Now program devising plays with students and adults from Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, and Hyderabad. From 2016 - 2020, he served as Training Programs Manager at Arena Stage where he revitalized the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship Internship Program, and the Actors Arena Professional Development program serving over 400 local DC area actors and co-created the DC Arts Culture Career Development Fair. As Associate Producer of New Play Development at Theater Alliance, he cultivated partnerships with DC community organizations like Ben's Chili Bowl and the D.C. Public Library. At the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he served as Artistic Producer for Theater of Young Audiences where he produced plays adapted from books by authors Jacquline Woodson and Jason Reynolds. A few of his acting credits include Arena Stage; Toni Stone, Ford's Theatre; Twelve Angry Men, and Washington National Opera; Lost In the Stars.
Noreen Major
Chief Development Officer
Alicia Sells
General Manager
Alicia Sells started with Arena Stage as a freelance stage manager in 2013 and joined as a full-time staff member in 2016. Over the years, she has worked in various departments across the organization, including production, operations, and general management, revitalizing various processes and procedures with an eye on streamlining resources and promoting interdepartmental collaboration. Now, as general manager, she oversees artists contracts, relations, and company management. Prior to joining Arena full time, she worked on more than 30 productions as a freelance stage manager for companies such as Adventure Theatre, Arts on the Horizon, Folger Theatre, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Olney Theatre Center, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. She has extensive experience as both a freelance stage manager and production manager for corporate events, several of which she continues to work on an annual basis. She is also a proud company member of Arts on the Horizon, to whom she provides production management consultation. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in English, history, and theater and a minor in economics.
Reggie D. White
Senior Director of Artistic Strategy & Impact
Reggie D. White is an award-winning multi-hyphenate artist, educator, and arts advocate whose international career spans almost two decades. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in Matthew López's Tony Award-winning epic, The Inheritance. He also recently starred as Bayard Rustin in Bayard Rustin: Inside Ashland at People's Light, written and directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. Other regional and Off-Broadway credits include I and You (59E59), Hundred Days (New York Theatre Workshop), The Luckiest (La Jolla Playhouse), Macbeth In Stride (American Repertory Theater at Harvard University), and the world premiere of Flood in the Valley, a bi-lingual musical that toured China in 2018. His directing credits include Atlantic Theater Company, The Public, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Bay Street Theater, The Williams Project, and PlayGroundSF. Reggie co-conceived Lessons in Survival: 1971, based on the iconic conversation between Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin, at Vineyard Theatre (NYT Critic's Pick). He also co-conceived and appeared in the digital anthology series of the same title (NYT Best Theatre of 2020). His play In Case You Haven’t Heard premiered last spring at Bay Street Theater, and his play Fremont Ave was developed during Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor Summer Residency. Reggie is a resident artist at Vineyard Theatre, a founding member of the multi-generational theater collective The Commissary, and a founding company member with The Williams Project, a living-wage theatre company. As an educator, Reggie has taught, delivered, and developed arts curricula across the country for artists of all ages. Since 2015, he has been a member of the faculty at Atlantic Acting School (an NYU Partner Studio), where he served as its Artistic Director from 2018-2022. Reggie is a recipient of the Colman Domingo Award, the TCG Fox Fellowship, the TBA Titan Award, and the RHE Artistic Fellowship, and an NAACP Theatre Award nominee. www.reggiedwhite.com
Keaun Windear
Director of Facilities & Operations
CHIEF OF STAFF
Alison Irvin
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Judy Leventhal
HR MANAGER
Rachel Harrington
CONTROLLER
John Monnett
ACCOUNTING MANAGER
Christopher Murk
STAFF ACCOUNTANT
Mark Runion
PAYROLL & HR ADMINISTRATOR
Tyra Picazo
AUDITORS
CBIZ Inc.
LEGAL COUNSEL
Arent Fox Schiff LLP; Kramer Levin Robbins Russell
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC STRATEGY & IMPACT
Reggie D. White
ARTISTIC PRODUCER/EXECUTIVE COORDINATOR
Hannah Viederman
CASTING DIRECTOR/LINE PRODUCER
Raiyon Hunter
ARTISTIC FELLOW
Nakkia Smalls
CASTING INTERN
Tyandria Jaaber
CURRENT COMMISSIONED WRITERS
Daniel "Koa" Beaty, The Bengsons, Lee Cataluna, Jeremy Cohen, Noah Diaz, Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, Emily Feldman, Idris Goodwin, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Deepak Kumar, The Pack, Octavio Solis, Vera Starbard, Cheryl West, Whitney White, Lauren Yee, Karen Zacarías, Zack Zadek
DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS
Keaun Windear
BUILDING TECHNICIAN
Anthony Wade
MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT
Tevin Smith
PORTER
Lawrence Wise
STAGE DOOR ATTENDANT
Pam Hatton
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SECURITY SERVICES
SWBID
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE
Sean-Maurice Lynch
Community Engagement
LEARNING ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Katie Campbell
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PRODUCER
Tiffany Fulson
TRAINING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Zoë Hall
LEARNING ENGAGEMENT ASSOCIATES
Rachel Dixon
Kayla A. Warren
ASSISTANT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PRODUCER
Kim Scott
LEARNING ENGAGEMENT FELLOW
Wonnie Kim
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FELLOW
T'Niya Wilson
Audience Experience
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE
Jody Barasch
HOUSE MANAGERS
Vicky Kolbeka
Bruce Perry
AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE ASSOCIATES
Alex Butler
Grant Collins
Chris Courtney
Tristin Evans
Bria Hall
Dalton Lamberth
Kathy Ledge
Hayley McGuirl
Frances Pepper
Brad Teague
CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
Noreen Major
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS AND EVENTS
Maria Corso
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY
R. Wesley Meekins
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
Abigail Cady
MEMBERSHIP MANAGER
Lauren Lopaty
GIFT PLANNING SPECIALIST
Maya Weil
DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS AND EVENTS MANAGER
Charmine Osore
MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANT
Oscar León
DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS AND EVENTS ASSISTANT
Mina Sollars
DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
Betsy O. Anderson
DEVELOPMENT FELLOW
Tiani Thorne
DIRECTOR OF EVENTS & RENTALS
Deri Collingwood
EVENTS & RENTALS COORDINATORS
Erin Kopit
Jasmine Martin
EVENTS CONSULTANT
Kaitlyn Sakry
GENERAL MANAGER
Alicia Sells
ASSOCIATE GENERAL MANAGER
J.P. McLaurin
COMPANY MANAGER
David McMaines
ASSOCIATE COMPANY MANAGER
Bowen Fox
GENERAL AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR
Jenna Murphy
GENERAL AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT FELLOW
Madalyn Oliver
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT
RenTec Solutions: Travis Armbuster (Director), Tima Theppakdee (Help Desk Tier II), Jime Marquez (Help Desk), Jarrett Poole (System Administrator)
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS & SALES
Ashton Beck
Marketing & Communications
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Ryan Impagliazzo
SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Jenny Hwang
CONTENT AND EMAIL SPECIALIST
Gaby Castro-Rodriguez
PUBLIC RELATIONS SPECIALIST
Anastasia St. Hilaire
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Kristopher Ingle
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
Destiny King
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS FELLOW
Byron Escobar
MULTIMEDIA DESIGN FELLOW
Anita Emokpae
Sales Office
DIRECTOR OF SALES
Caroline Hunt
SALES MANAGER
Hannah Damanka
SALES ASSOCIATES
Jordan Leah Embrack
Iara Rogers Benchoam
Lena Schimmel
Josie Filaski
Sales Operations
SENIOR SALES OPERATIONS SPECIALIST
Sabrina Zillinger
SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST
Aaron Hutchens
Group Sales
DIRECTOR OF GROUP SALES
Stephanie Atkinson
GROUP SALES LEAD MANAGER
Donald Jolly
Concessions
CONCESSIONS MANAGER
Edwin Cortez
CONCESSIONS SUPERVISOR
Erika Wallace
CONCESSIONS ATTENDANTS
Imani Pugh
SENIOR PRODUCTION MANAGER
Jeff Bazemore
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER
Rachel Crawford
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT
Jenna Keefer
Stage Management
RESIDENT PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Christi B. Spann
Scenic
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Travis Smith
ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Ryan Lasich
SCENE SHOP SUPERVISOR
Frank Miller
STAGE SUPERVISOR
Hannah Martin
CARPENTERS
Erick Boscana
Matthew Grisdela
Julia Junghans
Max Marshall
Logan McDowell
Lily Rehberg
Scenic Art
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST
Colleen Doty
SCENIC ARTIST
Misha Rodriguez
Properties
PROPERTIES DIRECTOR
Jennifer Sheetz
ASSOCIATE PROPERTIES DIRECTOR
Jonathan Borgia
HEAD PROPS ARTISAN
Niell Duval
PROPS ARTISAN
Kyle Handziak
PROPS ASSISTANTS
Erica Feidelseit
Kayla Prough
Lights
LIGHTING SUPERVISOR
Paul Villalovoz
ASSOCIATE LIGHTING SUPERVISOR
Jennifer Ives
ELECTRICIANS
Scott Folsom
Kelsey Swanson
Nicole Trantum
LIGHTING FELLOW
Emily Pan
Sound
SOUND AND VIDEO SUPERVISOR
GW Rodriguez
ASSOCIATE SOUND AND VIDEO SUPERVISOR
Di Carey
SOUND TECHNICIANS
Alex Cloud
Kirubell Seyoum
Ann Tran
Costumes
INTERIM COSTUME DIRECTOR
Cierra Coan
DRAPERS
Seth Gilbert
Michele Macadaeg
FIRST HANDS
Elizabeth Spilsbury
Lilliana Valentin
CRAFTSPERSON
Deborah Nash
WARDROBE SUPERVISOR
Alice Hawfield
WIGS, HAIR, AND MAKEUP SUPERVISOR
Jaime Bagley
DRESSERS
Caitlin O'Brien
Sabrina Simmons
COSTUME FELLOW
Grace Guzman
Photo by Cameron Whitman Photography.