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JEFFREY FRACÉ  Chair

Jeffrey Fracé teaches acting, directing and movement at University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program. He has performed in over 50 theatre and dance productions worldwide, at venues including the Kennedy Center, Delacorte Theater, Iberoamericano Festival of Bogota, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Portland Stage and Stonington Opera House. He has appeared in several productions with Anne Bogart's SITI Company, where he was an Associate Artist from 2001-2007. Dance-theatre collaborations have included Palissimo, Yo-el Cassell, Marie-Christine Giordano, Dixie Fun Lee Shulman, RedShift and Elizabeth Haselwood. He also directs theatre, dance and opera at venues including Stonington Opera House, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre and People's Branch Theatre. He is Producing Artistic Director of Point B Productions: credits include King Lear (Nashville) and States of Undress (New York City). His original musical, The Story of Little Horse, has received two grants from the Jerome Foundation, and is currently in development for a 2011 premiere. He is an alumnus of Oberlin College, and he received his MFA from Columbia University.

DAVID ROBERTS

David Roberts currently serves as an Associate Producer for SITI Company. Past producing and management credits include Associate Managing Director and Company Manager at Yale Repertory Theatre; line producer for Sonia Flew at Summer Play Festival 2006; inaugural Producer's Chair Award recipient, a mentorship program of The Foundry Theatre, for his work as producer on The Brothers Size, presented at the Public Theater's 2007 Under the Radar Festival. David holds a BFA in Acting from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University and an MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama.

CARLEIGH WELSH

Coming soon.

JULIO TUMBACO

Julio Tumbaco is a playwright, producer, published poet, screenwriter, television writer and short story writer. He is also a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, East and American Screenwriters Association. He’s produced his original plays as a workshop, an Actors’ Equity Approved Showcase and a full production in New York City @ both the Michael Weller Theatre and Theatre Row Studios. Under JJEntertainment, the writer/producer has produced several professional stage readings of his upcoming plays. His play, Tenesisi, was accepted into the 3rd Annual Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, MA in October 2008. A second play, TomLove, is in the TW/New Orleans Literary Festival for Spring 2009. The prolific writer/producer has recently joined HX Media LLC as an Account Executive. He serves as the lead judge in the bi-monthly NJ Performance Lab; now in its sophomore season. He also has 17 years of finance and operation management experience with Continental Airlines. He has years of experience with a non-for profit organization in; set-up, proposal writing, development, marketing and financial management. He holds degrees from Fordham University and New York University. For 2009, his new company, JentertainmenT, llc is being launched to fully support the entire media commitment.

CECILE THAXTER

Cecile Thaxter is a director in UBS Investment Bank's Global Industrial Group. During her five years with the bank, she has been involved in a number of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt offerings and strategic advisory assignments. She also spent three months in UBS Japan, where she was instrumental in initiating US-Japan client coverage and implementing best practices in the Tokyo office. Cecile also worked in the Financial Advisory Services group of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for two years. While at PwC, she worked on a number of corporate valuation, restructuring and litigation assignments. Prior to business school, Cecile spent four years in Information Technology consulting, where she designed, coded and implemented computer application systems for the financial industry. Cecile received her MBA in Finance and Accounting from Columbia University and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of the West Indies.

GARLAND GOODWIN WILSON

Garland Goodwin Wilson is the Artistic Director for Of Moving Colors Productions, a professional contemporary dance-theatre organization in Louisiana. Through her company, she has facilitated guest residencies for artists such as Emily Plauche' Flink, Hannah Kahn and Joe Alegado. She has produced and choreographed for over 15 major productions and an extensive list of educational venues. Garland served in the capacity of Director at Large for the organization from 2002-2004 and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Baton Rouge Performing Arts Alliance, the Louisiana Dance Alliance and Palissimo Dance Theatre Company. She has served on grants panels for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and is currently the co-chair of the 2nd Annual Louisiana Dance Festival.

JOSEPHINE DORADO

Josephine Dorado is a New York-based media artist, producer, social entrepreneur and skydiver. In her work, she explores the extension of the performance environment with technology and the process of cultural exchange through creative interplay in virtual spaces. She initiated the Kidz Connect program, which connects youth internationally via creative collaboration and theatrical performance in virtual worlds, and received a MacArthur Foundation award to co-found Fractor.org, which matches news with opportunities for activism. She was a Fulbright scholarship recipient and an artist-in-residence at the Waag Society in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and continues her involvement with Fulbright as a member of the Board of Directors. Performances include interdisciplinary productions for the ISEA and Romaeuropa Festivals as well as speaking engagements at SIGGRAPH, Queen’s University in Belfast, and London Knowledge Lab. Josephine currently teaches at the New School and is the live events producer for This Spartan Life.