Board of Directors and Programs

All members are welcome at Board meetings, which are announced in the weekly newsletter.

We welcome your comments and suggestions! (All name links below are e-mail links and will open in your e-mail program.)

	Alina Trowbridge: Chair* Alina Trowbridge studied creative writing at San Francisco State and the art of the 10-minute play with Erin Blackwell. Alina's 10-minute plays have been produced on both coasts (and in New Hampshire) by PlayGround, the Playwrights' Center, Pan Theater, Ross Valley Players, Theaters Against War, Three Wise Monkeys, Yellow Taxi, Woman's Will, the Mae West Fest, and Another Country Productions. She was part of the Cruel & Unusual team writing about torture at the 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Her full-length play Seismic Surprises Enliven Our Lives received honorable mention at Stage 3's Festival of New Plays 2005 (Sonora). Alina serves as Development Manager at St. Anthony Foundation.
Jennifer Roberts: Secretary*
Rod McFadden: Treasurer*
Membership Director* Open position. Please contact Patricia Milton if interested.
	Alina Trowbridge: Development Director* Alina Trowbridge studied creative writing at San Francisco State and the art of the 10-minute play with Erin Blackwell. Alina's 10-minute plays have been produced on both coasts (and in New Hampshire) by PlayGround, the Playwrights' Center, Pan Theater, Ross Valley Players, Theaters Against War, Three Wise Monkeys, Yellow Taxi, Woman's Will, the Mae West Fest, and Another Country Productions. She was part of the Cruel & Unusual team writing about torture at the 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Her full-length play Seismic Surprises Enliven Our Lives received honorable mention at Stage 3's Festival of New Plays 2005 (Sonora). Alina serves as Development Manager at St. Anthony Foundation.
	Jason Jeremy: Member at Large* Jason is a local actor who got his start doing radio theatre as a kid, corrupted by such lovable kooks as the Firesign Theatre troupe and NPR’s Dr. Science.  He went on to play numerous roles for stage at the University of Illinois, including Jake in A Girl’s Guide to Chaos and Jonathan Harker in a surreal anarchist twist on Dracula.  Jason now lives in San Francisco, where he works as a computer programmer and enjoys the many acting opportunities the city has to offer.  He has recently appeared on stage as Reese in The War at Home and in the Sheherezade 2007 ensemble and in the short films IT Help Desk as Eugene and Climate Change as Manny.
	Brian Tognotti: Member at Large* Brian J. Tognotti has a BA with honors in Theatre from UCLA. His short play Make Love Not War was produced at New Conservatory Theatre in June 2008. His play Louella's Burden was selected for the Lakeshore Players, The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco's Sheherezade and Three Wise Monkeys Short Leaps competitions. Sense Memory and Self-Animations were finalists for the Bay One Acts Festival. He is Chair of The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco and a member of The Dramatists' Guild of America.
Literary Committee: Rotating Members of the Board
PROGRAMS
	Meg O’Connor: Administrative Director Meg O'Connor is a playwright, singer, actor, and theater enthusiast. She graduated from USF, where she studied creative writing with an emphasis in playwriting. Several of her one acts have been produced by USF's College Players, including a staged reading of her full length, In the Wings. She was the Activities Director for the College Players in their 143rd season, and she has acted in many of their performances. She is currently the Literary Manager for The Cutting Ball Theater, and singing for San Francisco Renaissance Voices.
	Sara Staley: Producing Director - Staged Readings Sara is originally from Southern California where she got her BA in Theater from UCLA. After working briefly in production and media planning/promotions for NBC and Disney, she relocated to the Bay Area to pursue theater full time. Since the fall of 2001, Sara has been the Director of the YouthAware Educational Theatre program at the New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) in San Francisco, where she produces and directs a season of educational/social issue plays, staged with professional actors, that tour to student audiences all over Northern California. Sara also facilitates discussions with large young audiences on the tough topics that YouthAware plays tackle, including HIV prevention, diversity, homophobia, body image, personal choices & responsibility. She is most interested in pursuing & developing her directing for the theater. She has directing credits with YouthAware, PCSF, FRESH New Works, and the SF Young Playwright's Festival, and she also designs sound for the stage. Sara is happy to serve on the Board for the Playwright's Center of San Francisco because of her strong belief in the need to encourage and develop new plays and new voices in the theater.
Suze Allen: Dramaturg & Producing Director - Developmental Readings Suze Allen is a playwright, actor, teacher, dramaturge and director with credits on both coasts. Her work has been on stage at Brava! For Women in the Arts, The Marsh, Noh Space, Intersection for the Arts, The Climate, The Phoenix, Portland Stage Company, Out North Alaska, Mad Horse Theatre and the SF and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. Suze co-produces the Marsh Cafe Second Sundays; a breeding and reading ground for new short works and is creator of the Maine Playwrights' Lab and Short Works Festival. She is Artistic Director for the SF Writers and Actors Lab in Bernal Heights. Her new solo show The Manic Mama Dance premiered at the Marsh Cafe in June 2006. Suze was the Developmental Readings Producing Director for the 06/07 season before changing roles to be the new Dramaturge at the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco.
Rod McFadden: Scene Night Director*
Volunteer Coordinator Open position.
ADVISORY BOARD
Jody Handley Christopher Jenkins Dawson Moore Laura Ellen Smith Aoise Stratford Mike Ward

We also have a newly appointed team of grant writers working to fund PCSF's future.

* Board of Directors position.

Updated 7/12/10