Our Team
The team at The Orchard Project advances the work of risk-taking theatre-makers by providing accelerating devlopmental opportunities for work and artists of promise and merit.
Though our primary work as a team is centered around the development of particular projects, all involved in the Orchard Project see their primary objective as the building of a creative community of leaders and innovators who will support each other’s work.
Artistic Director
Ari Edelson
Episodic Lab Facilitator
Jennifer Chambers
Episodic Lab Facilitator
Maija Gustin
Audio Lab Facilitator
Jerry Ruiz
Performance Lab Facilitator
Xiaoyue Zhang
Greenhouse Lab Facilitator
Ramona Rose King
Director, OP Forward
Lana Russell
BOARD
- Diane Borger, Producer, American Repertory Theatre
- Raymond Bryan, Entrepreneur, Thoroughbred Owner, Broadway Investor
- Eric Daniels, Architect, Associate Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology
- Ari Edelson, Artistic Director, The Orchard Project
- Eunice Ferreira, Director, Associate Professor, Skidmore College
- Richard Glazer, New York Cardiac Center
- Carly Hugo, Film Producer, Loveless
- Gabriella Ianoale, Attorney, Ernst & Young
- Samantha Lazarus Levin
- Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer and TONY-winning Playwright
- Beesham A. Seecharan, Matthews South
- Stephen Seymour, Managing Director, Varde Partners
- Dean Strober, Freelance Producer, Co-Founder, The Orchard Project
- Hugh Thistlethwaite, Partner, Fragomen
- Rachel Uccellini, Integrated Communications Professional
BOARD EMERITI
- David Bauer, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
- Jennifer Costello, Director of Production, Broadway Across America/John Gore Organization