SOURCE

Producer
Jenny McConnell Frederick joined CuDC in July of 2009 as Producer for the Source Festival and Mead Theatre Lab. Through the Mead Theatre Lab Program, she provides production support, theatre space and mentoring to performing artists and emerging companies. Jenny is also the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Rorschach Theatre. Founded in July of 1999, Rorschach has received significant acclaim for its fierce performance style, its bold use of theatrical space and its dedication to challenging works that are at once relevant and timeless. The company’s work has focused on helping to reveal the contemporary relevance of fable, finding magic in rough spaces and connecting timeless works to a contemporary audience. Rorschach has been nominated for several Helen Hayes Awards, been a finalist for the Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artists and won a Mary Goldwater award in 2006. Additionally, Jenny served as a member of the Mead Theatre Lab Advisory Panel for two years, produced Art-O-Matic’s theatre component in 2000 and 2003 and is a member of the Hub Theatre’s Advisory Board.

Associate Producers
Jessie Gallogly is delighted to return to Source Festival as an Associate Producer. As a director she has collaborated locally with Journeymen Theater Ensemble (DC premier of Neglect, reading of In Service of the Queen), Rorschach Theatre (Kit Marlowe and assistant to Randy Baker on Monster), Arena Stage (assistant director to Moises Kaufman on the world premier of 33 Variations), Signature Theatre (assistant to Jeremy Skidmore on Crave), and Solas Nua (readings of Midden, Shoot the Crow). Her interest in new plays began when she was the Associate Producer at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York and continued while she acted as the Artistic Director of the New Playwrights Festival in Hoboken, New Jersey. She is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Rachel Grossman is a DC-based producing, creating, and performing theatre artist and educator. She is a conspirator of dog & pony dc, producing and appearing in Cymbeline and Bare Breasted Women Sword Fighting, producing PUNCH—that’s the way we do it!, and directing Courage (in development). Rachel is a founding member of Referendum: Political Arts Collective through which she produced and directed The Trojan Women, and produced and appeared in To Have and To Hold and The Burial at Thebes. Other affiliations: Adventure Theatre (director, Holes); eXtreme eXchange (producing team); DC Playback Theatre Company (company member); Magic Circle Theatre (Obanje/River God, Ezigbo the spirit child; Aunt Bea, Ramona Quimby; Mother, Rapunzel; Stage Manager, Winnie the Pooh, Androcles and the Lion). Rachel served as Director of Education & Outreach at Round House Theatre for four seasons; prior to which, she managed education and community programming at The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage and CENTERSTAGE. Rachel promotes health and safety in the workplace as an instructor with the American Red Cross. She holds a BA in political science from Kenyon College and is pursuing a MAT in Special Education from Trinity University in DC. She resides in Petworth with her husband Colin K. Bills and their spirited dog, Adler.