Producer

• Jeremy Skidmore, Producer

  Jeremy Skidmore is the former Artistic Director of Theater Alliance where he produced 22 productions in five years and directed Blue/Orange, Gross Indecency, Mary’s Wedding (Helen Hayes Nominations for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production), Tales from Ovid, Slaughter City, The Dispute and the world premiere of Painted Alice. Elsewhere in the DC area, he has directed for Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, Catalyst Theater Company, African Continuum Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Keegan Theater, University of Maryland, Catholic University and The National Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. Outside of Washington, Jeremy has directed or produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Galway, Tokyo, Macau and Tai Pei. Jeremy is a Member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Associate Producers

• Merry Alderman, Associate Producer

  Merry Alderman is currently the Associate Casting Director for the Shakespeare Theatre Company. She is also working on an improvisational play development project with playwright Gwydion Suilebhan and a talented ensemble of Washington actors through the Mead Theater Lab Program. She is a founding member of the Capital Fringe where she recently directed Abstract Nude in the 2007 Festival. Other directing credits include, Natalie!; The Rules of Love; Bash; and at Wesleyan University: Side Man, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek and SubUrbia among others. She has served as assistant director for Michael Kahn at The Shakespeare Theatre, Blanka Zizka at Manhattan Theatre Club; and Brian Kulick at The Underwood Theater. Merry worked for Francine Maisler Casting in Los Angeles where she served as Casting Associate on the films The Kite Runner and Babel as well as the pilot episode of NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. She was the Casting Assistant on Memoirs of a Geisha; Bewitched; Miami Vice; Stranger Than Fiction and Spider Man 3. Before living in Los Angeles, Merry was the Artistic Associate for The Underwood Theater in New York, a company dedicated to producing the work of emerging playwrights, where she cast and produced the OUT LOUD new-play reading series. She has directed new-play readings and workshops for Catalyst Theater (DC); The Axis Theater (LA); Sacred Fools (LA); The Tank (NY). TRAINING: Wesleyan University, BA
  
  

• Sarah Coleman, Associate Producer

  As a program manager for CuDC, Sarah administers the Residency Program and the Roundtable Series. She oversees the Mead Theatre Lab Program, coordinating a six-member Advisory Panel and the recruitment, selection and execution of sponsored productions in the theatre lab. As an associate producer for the Source Festival, she acts as the liason between CuDC and the Festival Producer. Sarah has an extensive background in theatre production, specifically in stage management. In the DC area she has worked as a stage manager on productions at Arena Stage, Discovery Theatre and Catalyst Theater. As an Arena Stage teaching artist she taught playwriting and playbuilding in area middle and high schools. In her native state of Maine, she has stage managed for Mad Horse Theatre Company, Mad Horse Children's Theatre and Bowdoin College, served as a Maine Student Film and Video Festival judge and worked extensively with Films by Huey, an independent documentary filmmaker. Sarah has a Bachelor of Arts in History from Bowdoin College.
  
  

• Jessie Gallogly, Associate Producer

  Jessie Gallogly is a director who has worked in the DC area for the last two years. She recently assisted Moises Kaufman on 33 Variations at Arena Stage, with upcoming projects for the 2007/2008 season including Kit Marlowe at Rorschach Theatre and the DC premier of Sharon Rothstein's Neglect with Journeymen Theatre Ensemble. She has collaborated locally with Signature Theatre (assistant to Jeremy Skidmore on Crave), Theatre Alliance, Rorschach Theatre (Monster, 365 Plays/365 Days), Solas Nua (Midden, Shoot the Crow) and Journeymen Theatre Ensemble (In Service of the Queen). Other directing credits include The Dumb Waiter, Godot Has Left the Building (world premier), Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind , A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,, Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks, The Love Talker, and many readings of new plays. Ms Gallogly has acted as the Artistic Director of the New Playwrights Festival in Hoboken, New Jersey as well as Fairytale Theatre of New York, a movement based storytelling ensemble. She is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.