|
Board
of Directors
Board Member: Barry Andelman
Barry is an active member of the theatre scene in Boston,
seeing between 150-200 theatre performances a year. He is a
Founding Member of Boston Theatre Works. He has worked for
many years developing relationships with theatre companies
in the area for complimentary ticket giveaways for
non-profits like AIDS Action Committee and has also worked
to bring school-aged children to see live theatrical
performances. When he lived in Japan for 5 years, he became
very involved with NOH Drama, and he has amassed a library
of over 100 translations of NOH Drama, one of the largest
individual collections in the world.
Managing Director: Sarah Shampnois
Sarah received her B.A. from Clark University in 1998. Sarah
has worked for and helped develop several non-profit agencies
including AmeriCorps, New Jersey Community Water Watch and
MassPIRG. In Washington D.C., Sarah served the President's
Council on Sustainable Development. She was the Educational
Team Leader in Camden, NJ in 1998 and has taught environmental-ed
and the arts in the Worcester, MA school system. She is a
professional Community Organizer. She has received training
and has extensive experience in Private and Corporate Fund
Raising, Internship Supervision, and Media Relations.Her directing
credits include David Ives' The Universal Language,
Christopher Durang's 'Dentity Crisis and Sister
Mary Ignatius Explains it all for You, as well as Harvey
Fierstein's On Tidy Endings. She has assistant directed
Tennessee Williams' Out Cry and David Ives' Words,
Words, Words. Sarah has extensive production experience
with such works as Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin
Agile, Ives' All in the Timing, Schafer's Equus,
and Fierstein's On Tidy Endings.
Artistic
Director: Shawn LaCount
Co-founder of Company One, Shawn holds a
Masters degree in Theatre Education from Clark University. He
has been acting, directing and producing theatre in Boston for
the past five years. His directorial credits include “Boston
Fringe” entry Before My Eyes, Ed Bullins’ The
Doorway, Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project, Tony
Kushner’s Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht
Verloren Sein, or Ambivelence, William Finn’s Painting
You, Marsha Norman’s 140, Tony Kushner’s adaptation
of Pierre Corneille’s The Illusion, Tennessee Williams’
Out Cry and Talk To Me Like the Rain and Let Me
Listen, David Ives’ Words, Words, Words and Sure
Thing, as well as J.M. Barry’s Peter Pan. Shawn’s
playwriting credits include The Mermaid of Venice and
Butterfly Bruised. Most recently, Shawn has been seen
on stage playing the role of “Blue” in the world premiere of
Edmund De Santis’ The Language of Kisses at the Boston
Center for the Arts, “S” in Ping Chong’s Truth & Beauty and
“Mr. Smith” in Conrad Bishop’s and Elizabeth Fuller’s Doom.
Shawn has taught acting at the Huntington Theatre
in Boston and is currently working on his Masters in Directing
at UMass Amherst. He has also developed the theatre arts program at
the University Park Campus School in Worcester, MA as well as
for Company One’s theatrical training program, Stage One,
where he serves as the head instructor at the Coolidge Corner
Theatre.
Board
Member: Victoria Marsh
Victoria has directed Lost City, Twilight: Los
Angeles, 1992, 103 Within the Veil, and 2 one act plays
within Rash Acts for Company One. Marsh directed
Christina Chan and Judy Tso in their performance art
collaboration Bobby Pins Up Your Nose at the Museum
of Fine Arts in 2002 and the Asian Pacific Arts Festival in
2001. She co-founded the Asian American Theater Project and
serves on the advisory board of the annual Boston Women on
Top Theater Festival. As New Theatre's managing director
from 1993-1996, Marsh produced three NeWorks Festivals and
six main stage productions. She recently starred in Company
One’s production of Kirsten Greenidge’s play Maybe
They’re Wrong in the Boston Theatre Marathon.
Director
of Public Relations: Mason Sand
M.S. in Professional Communications, both from Clark University.
With Company One, Mason works as an artist, educator, administrator
and producer. He also serves as the company's Chief Grant
writer. Other professional venues include the New Victory
Theater in New York City where Mason worked closely with the
Director of Education and other administrators to develop
a written history of the New Victory Theatre. He has assistant
directed David Ives' English Made Simple and Eric Bogosian's
Bitter Sauce. His producing credits include Love's
Fire, Triptych, WASP, Mr. Happiness,
Geography of a Horse Dreamer, All in the Timing,
Samuel Beckett's Come & Go, Out Cry and
The Illusion.
Educational
Director: Mark VanDerzee
Mark attended Clark University where he received his B.A. in
Theatre Performance and dual certification in Elementary
Education and K-12 Performing Arts. Stage One: Teen Theatre,
Company One’s Dramatic Education Program is under Mark’s
helm. He has developed the curriculum for several different
branches of the program, including Stage One’s summer camp,
a series of intensive after-school theatre courses and a
Stage One professional apprenticeship program. Most
recently, Mark has launched a tour of ARTiculation, which travels throughout New
England to high schools, colleges, and community centers.
Under Mark’s guidance, Company One’s Stage One program has now
begun to educate people from the ages of 4 to 40 (and beyond)
with quality artistic programming. Mark began his public
school teaching career in the Worcester Public Schools, and
currently teaches Stagecraft, Design for the Stage and Improv
at Brookline High School. Proudly, Mark is also an educator
for Stage One.
Marketing Director: Summer L. Williams
Summer L. Williams became an active member of Company One
during its 1999 summer production of Picasso at the lapin
Agile. In May of 2002, she received
her Master's of Education degree from Clark University in
Worcester, MA, where she worked on interdisciplinary
curriculum development in the theatre arts classroom. Summer
taught in Worcester's inner city school system
at the middle school level for two years. Ms. Williams'
directorial credits include Colored Girls Under a Spell
(an adaptation of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who
Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf) and
Truth: an evening of conversation (a collection
of one act plays by Israel Horovitz, Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth
Fuller). As a member of the Board of Trustees and a lead instructor
for Stage One, Summer looks forward to further developing
Company One's artistic efforts and fulfilling it's mission
"to be a source of Boston's most inspired collaborations".
|
