Executive Leadership
Brenda Jean Foley (Producing Artistic Director) moved to Tempe from New York City with her husband, Brian, who completed his MFA in Directing at ASU, and child, Robyn. Brenda hosts Broadway Curious for The Bridge Initiative. Brenda has worked with Arizona Theatre Company (The Diary of Anne Frank, The Music Man), Jewish Ensembler Theatre at Scottsdale Center for the Arts (The Diary of Anne Frank), Tempe Center for the Arts (Orange Flower Water – scheduled March 2020), iTheatre Collaborative (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Love Disorder), AC/TC (Now.Here.This.), Mesa Encore Theatre (Carousel, August: Osage County,The Full Monty, Zoni nom), the Don Bluth Front Row Theatre (The Sound of Music), and readings with Phoenix Theatre, Stray Cat, and Class 6. She started the popular monthly Second Sundays play reading series with Mesa Encore Theatre. Previously, Brenda performed off- and off-off-Broadway, on tour, in regional theatre, and internationally. She founded CEO Theatre who were the first to revive John Cariani’s Almost, Maine in NYC. Also a writer, her screenplays have placed in national contests, and she wrote the book and contributed lyrics to an original musical, To Find Happy, which was part of the Emerging Artists Theatre New Works Festival in 2013. She is currently putting together her first documentary film, See Jane Run, as executive producer. She has a BFA in Musical Theatre and a BA in English from the University of Michigan, and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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Shonda Royall
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Artistic Collective
Natalie Andrews, Amie Bjorklund, Breona Conrad, Lydia Corbin, Daniela Crispo, Lindsey Penner, Maren Maclean, Taylor Moschetti,
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Artistic Affiliates
Marina Blue Jarrett, Brian Foley, Angela Celes Kabasan Gonzalez, Megan Holcomb, Justin Hosten, Melody Knudson, Mona Swan Lesueur, Elaine ‘E.E.’ Moe, John Perovich, Seth Tucker, Lesley Tutnick-Machbitz, Avery Volk
Members of the Board
- Acting President: Brenda Foley
- Secretary: Amie Bjorklund
- Treasurer: Rob Greenspan
- Members-at-Large: Breona Conrad, Daniela Crispo, Sally Jesse, Lindsey Penner, Christi Sweeney
- Co-founding Producing Artistic Director Emeritus: Tracy Liz Miller
Additional Support
- Photography: Laura Durant, Durant Communications
- Web Administration: David Dickinson, Will Rogers