Jean Wagner, Artistic Director

A co-founder of Voice & Vision, Jean has developed and directed new works at Voice & Vision including The Good Life by Yeardley Smith (The Culture Project, developed in the 2003 ENVISION Lab) Ana Traina’s In Audela, Wendy Kesselman’s The Black Monk, Colette Burson’s A Dry and Thirsty Land, the world premiere of which she also directed at HERE in NYC, Sheila Schwartz’s Benefit of the Doubt; and productions of Dulcitius by Hrotswitha and Maricela de la Luz Lights the World by Jose Rivera. Other directing credits include works at New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage & Film Company, Manhattan Class Company and the Mabou Mines/Suite, the world premieres of The Notebook by Wendy Kesselman at Boston’s Wheelock Theater and the musical Hans in Luck by librettist Margie Duffield and composer Dan Ashkenaze at The Blue Heron Theater in NYC. Ms. Wagner was the Associate Director on the 1998 Tony-nominated revival of The Diary of Anne Frank, and Twelve Dreams at Lincoln Center Theater directed by James Lapine. She is on the faculty of the Bard College Theater Program.

Abigail Katz, Producer

A dramaturg by training, Abigail’s work on recent productions include research dramaturg for The Civilians’ Brooklyn at Eye Level and The Civilians’ This Beautiful City; associate producer for Cyclone (and the Pig-Faced Lady) (NYMF); dramaturg for The Civilians’ Paris Commune (Public Theater); associate producer for The Error of Their Ways, (HERE American Living Room Festival.) Additional productions include dramaturg for Vaclav Havel’s Largo Desolato (Columbia Stages); Men of Clay, (Dog Run Rep); and assistant director for Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (Classic Stage Company/Worth Street). In addition to her duties at Voice & Vision, Abigail serves as Dramaturg and Literary Associate for the award-winning theatre company The Civilians. She has also worked with Atlantic Theater Company, is a teaching associate at Barnard College, and received her MFA in dramaturgy from Columbia University School of the Arts.

Wendy Weckwerth, ENVISION Resident Dramaturg

Wendy Weckwerth is a freelance dramaturg and doctoral candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she also received an MFA in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism. She is currently teaching at Dartmouth College, was a teaching fellow in the English and Theater Studies departments of Yale College, and was awarded the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Education. She was the associate editor of Theater, and is a two-time recipient of the John W. Gassner Memorial Prize for articles submitted to the magazine. She has served as Retreat dramaturg for Voice & Vision’s ENVISION Retreats since 2000. She has also worked on projects presented at P.S. 122, Ensemble Studio Theater, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale Cabaret. Along with Jean Wagner, she has adapted Calderón’s Life Is a Dream.

LeeAnne Hutchison, Artistic Associate

LeeAnne is a performer who joined the Voice & Vision team in 1998 as Assistant Director for Maricela de la Luz Lights the World by Jose Rivera. She has performed in New York Theatre Workshop’s Body Sketch by Pirandello, in Mettawee River Theatre Company’s Psyche at the Kitchen, and in several plays at the Chelsea Repertory Theater, including performances of Viola in Twelfth Night, Alice in Vinegar Tom, and Rosemary in Rosemary with Ginger by Edward Allen Baker. She has directed and taught acting for the Youth Performance Workshop at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and for The Metropolitan Opera Guild’s Creating Original Opera. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and has studied extensively in London and New York City.

Marya Mazor, Founding Artistic Director

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Anne Newman Bacal (Chair Emeritus) Vice President, Griffin Bacal, Inc (retired)

LeeAnne Hutchison (Chair) Actor

Mona-Louise Hyre (Treasurer) Freelance Producer and Theater Management Consultant

Andrew Bloom Associate, Linklaters LLP, New York

Amanda Cooper Company Manager, The House Foundation

Dzu Do Systems, TIAA CREFF and Visual Artist

Jennifer Gibbs Playwright/Performer

Marya Mazor Founding Artistic Director, Voice & Vision

Lynn Nottage Playwright

Jean Wagner Artistic Director, Voice & Vision

JoAnne Akalaitis Founding Member, Mabou Mines and Director of Theater Program, Bard College

Len Berkman Dramaturg and Professor of Theater, Smith College

Olympia Dukakis Actress

Ruth Maleczech Artistic Director, Mabou Mines

Max Mayer Producing Director, New York Stage & Film Co.

Estelle Parsons Actress

Jennifer Tipton Lighting Designer and Professor, Yale School of Drama

Leslie Urdang Producer, Wildwood Enterprises/Southfork Pictures and President, True Pictures