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.
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Artistic Director
Ari Edelson
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Episodic Lab Facilitator
Jennifer Chambers
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Episodic Lab Facilitator
Maija Gustin
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Audio Lab Facilitator
Jerry Ruiz
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Performance Lab Facilitator
Xiaoyue Zhang
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Greenhouse Lab Facilitator
Ramona Rose King
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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
- Steve Gottlieb, Entrepreneur, Founder, TVT Records and Shindig
- Carly Hugo, Film Producer, Loveless
- Gabriella Ianoale, Attorney, Ernst & Young
- Samantha Lazarus Levin
- Mona Moriya, Producer; Finance Director, The Lark Theatre
- Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer and TONY-winning Playwright
- Stephen Seymour, Managing Director, Varde Partners
- Dean Strober, Freelance Producer, Co-Founder, The Orchard Project
- Rachel Uccellini, Integrated Communications Professional
BOARD EMERITI
- David Bauer, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
- Jennifer Costello, Director of Production, Broadway Across America/John Gore Organization