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