The
Marsh Staff
Stephanie Weisman
Artistic/Executive Director
Founder
Program Directors
Emily Klion
Marsh
Youth
Theater (MYT)
Patti Meyer
Monday Night
Marsh
Sharon Eberhardt
MarshRisings
Administration
Johnathann Meier
General Manager
Kinga Pfeifer
Producing Manager
Neil Higgins
Administration Manager
Patti Meyer
Technical Director
Diana Rathbone
Publicist
Brendan Aanes
Erich Blazeski
Kedar Lawrence
Lighting Technicians
Erich Blazeski
Dorothy Janson
Tasha Nesbitt
Diana Rathbone
Arnie Warshaw
House Managers
Nikki Kourmouzis
Web Administrator
Nikki Kourmouzis
Gavin O’Brien
Jeffrey Pedroza
Café/Box Office
Artists-in-Residence
David Ford
(Director)
Charlie Varon
(Performer)
|
|
Stephanie
A. Weisman founded and has been the Artistic/Executive Director of The Marsh since its inception in 1989. Under her leadership, The Marsh has grown from a one-night-a-week performance series to producing 400-500 shows annually on its three stages. In addition to its developing work performance series, The Marsh's programs include: artist-in-residencies, after-school workshops for at-risk youth, and performance development classes and workshops. In 1996 Stephanie spearheaded the drive to successfully buy their 12,000 sq ft facility on Valencia Street in San Francisco. This increased The Marsh's programs four-fold as well as provided for a stable Bay Area arts organization.
For her work at The Marsh Stephanie has received the Meritorious Achievement Award from Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle and was named A Local Hero by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The plays she has produced have since been produced in theaters both nationally and internationally and have received numerous awards including: more than a dozen Critics Circle and Dramalog Awards; three of the prestigious Will Glickman Playwright Awards (Dan Hoyle’s TINGS DEY HAPPEN, Charlie Varon's RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NIGHT SCHOOL and Brian Freeman's CIVIL SEX) as well as the National Theater Critics Emerging Playwright Award.
In addition to her work as Artistic/Executive Director of The Marsh, Stephanie has served as Associate Producer for the movie HAIKU TUNNEL by Josh and Jake Kornbluth, distributed by Sony Classic Pictures; she has curated the Cleveland Performance Festival and the Berkeley Arts Center's Performance Series. Her directing credits include Madine Ish's performance SNAPSHOTS FROM THE ASYLUM and SOLO FLECKS. She is a past board member of the Will Glickman Playwright Award and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce's Business Arts Council.
Stephanie has a BA in Psychology and a MA in English in Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Under the mentorship of Robert Creeley, she edited the arts journal, The Black Mountain II Review for three years and developed and taught a class, Small Press Publishing. She taught for six years at Media Alliance's Macintosh Training Lab and has served as a computer consultant. Her journalism, prose and poetry have been published nationally and she was awarded a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for her poetry performance piece, DANCEMASTERS.
|
Board
of Directors
Gail Buchbinder
Jeffrey Demain
David Fuchs
Cindy Ossias
Adam Hertz
David Hirata
Stephanie Weisman
Mitchell Yawitz
and honorary member
Philip
Armour
|
|
Advisors
Lucia Bogatay
Mary Anne Cook
Richard DiLeo
Eric Holmhund
Deborah
Lynne
Lombardo
Neil Weistein
Linda Wohlrabe
|
Funders
The
Marsh is supported by:
The Philip Armour Foundation
Children's Theater Foundation of America
San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Fund
Fleishacker Foundation
Grants For the Arts
Eva Gunther Foundation
Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Jim Henson Foundation
James Irvine
Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Hut Foundation
Mental Insight Foundation
Met Life Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Northern
California Grantmakers
Rex Foundation (Jerry Garcia Award)
Perforce Foundation
San Francisco Foundation
Vanguard Foundation
van Loben Sels/RembeRock Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
Zellerbach Family Foundation

|