PlayPenn Welcomes Erin Read as New General Manager

PlayPenn, Philadelphia's new play development organization, is proud to announce that arts administrator and theatre artist Erin Read will join PlayPenn as the team's new General Manager.

The organization is also happy to welcome Quinn Consulting Associates and Sabrina Profit as new members of PlayPenn's development team.

Ms. Read, a graduate of Florida State University, has worked with the Walnut Street Theater, Arden Theatre Company, Simpatico Theatre Project, and Theatre Horizon. For three seasons she served as the Artistic Assistant at Arden Theatre Company and for the last five years has supported the greater Philadelphia cultural community through her work with The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. In her new role with PlayPenn, Ms. Read will oversee the day-to-day operations of the organization.

Also new to the PlayPenn team are Richard and Karen Quinn, partners in Quinn Consulting Associates. Since its founding, they have served more than 40 nonprofit clients in Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, and the surrounding communities, and have a proven track record of writing winning proposals for several of the region's most dedicated funders. Under their leadership, they have guided clients in the development of thriving annual funds, corporate and individual sponsorship, and major gifts programs.

Actor Sabrina Profitt is no stranger to PlayPenn audiences: she has performed in numerous PlayPenn Conference readings for the last four years. Now, she joins PlayPenn as the organization's Development Coordinator. Ms. Profitt holds a BA from DeSales University and an MFA in Acting from FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Professional Actor Training. She also has a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Nonprofit Center at LaSalle University.

For more information on PlayPenn, visit playpenn.org.

Erin Read is an arts administrator and theatre artist based in Philadelphia since 2006. A graduate of Florida State University, Erin has worked with the Walnut Street Theater, Arden Theatre Company, Simpatico Theatre Project, and Theatre Horizon. For three seasons she served as the Artistic Assistant at Arden Theatre Company and for the last five years has supported the greater Philadelphia cultural community through her work with The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

Sabrina Profitt is best known to PlayPenn audiences as an actress, having performed at the Conference the last four summers. While working to complete her Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Nonprofit Center at LaSalle University, School of Business, she had the pleasure of working on the development side of the organization under Karyn Lyman, shadowing her during the 2017 Conference. Sabrina received her BA from DeSales University, graduating magma cum laude, and her MFA in Acting from FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Professional Actor Training.

Karen and Richard Quinn startEd Quinn Consulting Associates in 2008. Since its founding, they have served more than 40 nonprofit clients in Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, and the surrounding communities. They have provided services to nonprofits in a wide variety of fields, including theatre, the visual arts, classical music, dance, jazz and experimental music, heritage, health care, education, community development, public interest law, hunger, advocacy, and women's rights. They have a proven track record of writing winning proposals for several of the region's most dedicated funders, including the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pew Charitable Trusts, William Penn Foundation, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and The Philadelphia Foundation. In addition, they guide clients in the development of thriving annual fund, corporate and individual sponsorship, and major gifts programs, and train boards of directors in their ambassadorial role in donor development.

PlayPenn, in its 14th year, is an artist-driven organization dedicated to the development of new plays and playwrights. PlayPenn fully supports the needs of the writer and the demands of the play in an ever-evolving process within which playwrights can engage in risk taking, boundary-pushing work. The organization's flagship annual new play development conference and year-round development workshops in cooperation with producing theatres result in staged readings of at least 10 new plays each year for over 1,800 artists, producers, and theatergoers. Additionally, PlayPenn's rapidly expanding educational programs-which include 17-20 in-person and online classes annually with notable instructors, application assistance, personalized dramaturgy services, plus The Foundry, a three-year membership group for emerging playwrights resident in Philadelphia-serve another 230+ playwrights from the region and across the nation. PlayPenn supports artists at all career stages across a broad spectrum of cultural, economic, ethnic, and gender experience. Since 2005, PlayPenn has helped to develop over 110 new plays from infancy to a state closer to production-readiness. Nearly 60% of these plays have gone on to more than 315 professional productions at esteemed institutions in the United States, Great Britain, and elsewhere around the world, including the London's National Theatre, National Theatre of Israel, English Theatre Berlin, Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, Second Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, LaJolla Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, South Coast Repertory, and a host of theatres in the Philadelphia region, in cities across the country and around the world. In 2017, PlayPenn celebrated the first of its developed plays to hit a Broadway stage, and win a Tony Award-JT Rogers' Oslo at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Find out more at playpenn.org.

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