Staff

Joseph Berardelli

Chief Financial Officer

Joe Berardelli joined the Arena staff in May 2001 and is responsible for overseeing and managing all fiscal and fiduciary responsibilities of Arena Stage including financial planning, administration and budgeting.  In this capacity, he supervises the Business Office, reports to the Executive Director and serves on the Finance, Investment and Audit Committees. Joe holds an MBA from the State University of New York and has been an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Arts Management program at George Mason University since 2008. Prior to joining Arena’s staff, he was the Controller at the nation’s oldest community music school, Third Street Music School Settlement, on the Lower East Side of New York City. At Third Street, Joe was responsible for all accounting, budget and human resources functions. He has also served as the Business Manager for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Theatre Operations Manager at Symphony Space also in New York City.

joeb@arenastage.org

Cynthia Jean-Louis

Director of Human Resources

Cynthia Jean-Louis is a Human Resources professional with over 11 years of experience working in for-profit and non-profit businesses, fostering partnerships with multimillion dollar reputable companies. She specializes in creating strategies, and implementing human resource systems to streamline processes, improve workflow, and increase productivity. Hailing from Queens, New York, she received her Bachelor’s Degree from SUNY Old Westbury and continued her studies at Georgetown University, where she received her Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management. Highly adept at utilizing workforce analytics, she develops innovative solutions to promote accountability and awareness around diversity and inclusion, drive employee engagement, skillfully recruit and hire talent, and lead organizational change. Cynthia has a strong business acumen and is an expert in incorporating human capital to drive and meet business needs through HR systems, policies and practices. Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is her focal point for creating value and providing opportunities for innovation to drive change, and create high functioning teams. As a SHRM-CP certified strategic partner, and a certified Diversity and Inclusion Professional through Cornell University, she values continuous learning and fostering a learning environment for forward thinking.

Anita Maynard-Losh

Director of Community Engagement / Senior Artistic Advisor

Anita Maynard-Losh is the director of community engagement and senior artistic advisor at Arena Stage where she leads the theater’s education and outreach programs and serves on the artistic team. Now in her 16th season at Arena Stage, Anita has been involved in an artistic capacity on 40 Arena Stage productions: she directed the world premiere of Our War as part of the National Civil War Project, and has been an associate director, text director, and vocal/dialect coach on multiple other productions. Anita trained and taught at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, was on the faculty at Webster University in St. Louis, headed the theater department at the University of Alaska Southeast and was the associate artistic director of Perseverance Theater in Juneau, Alaska where she directed 21 mainstage productions. Anita traveled extensively with the artist-in-schools program in Alaska, working primarily with indigenous populations within the context of traditional villages. The Alaska Native-inspired production of Macbeth that Anita conceived and directed was performed in English and Tlingit at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of the Shakespeare in Washington Festival. Her essay about the project was published in Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, Palgrave MacMillan. She has coached dialects for the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage and the Broadway revival of Ragtime. Anita directs and devises ensemble theater with Arena Stage’s Voices of Now program, primarily in partnership with the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing working with grieving teenagers to create and perform original autobiographical theater pieces exploring loss and stigma of grief. Anita has traveled with the Voices of Now program to India (2012, 2014), Croatia (2015, 2019) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019), to collaborate with communities in devising original plays addressing social justice issues.

amaynardlosh@arenastage.org