Jay Duckworth is the founder of the Prop Summit a yearly meeting of Broadway, off - Broadway, LORT theaters and Academic prop professionals and student . He has been the Keynote Speaker for The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival as a guest of United States Institute of Theater Technology 2011 & 2015. Headed Master classes in Properties at numerous Universities. The roll call of shows he has create original work for starts in remastered Classic Greek Theater, re-imagined Shakespeare plays and musicals including Hamilton and stark Brechtian shows and continues with contemporary and ink wet works at his ... read more
Leah Gelpe is a talented director and producer with a passion for creating innovative and thought-provoking theater. Born and raised in New York City, Gelpe attended Brown University, where she studied theater and directing. After graduating, she moved back to New York and began working in the theater industry.
Gelpe has worked on a variety of productions both on and off Broadway. One of her earliest credits was serving as the assistant director for the Broadway production of "The Pillowman" in 2005. She went on to work on several other Broadway productions, including "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," and ... read more
Paul Hudson's New York credits include work at BAM Next Wave/Harvey, The Irish Repertory Theater, The Juilliard School, 59E59, Oslo Elsewhere, Synaesthetic Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Mirror Rep, J Mandle Performance, The Metropolitan Theatre, Theatre Row, The Gene Frankle Theater, The Old American Can Factory, 78th St. Theater Lab, John Jay's Gerald W. Lynch Theater, the Flea, HERE Arts Center, the 45th St. Theater, and the Culture Project/45 Below, to name a few. Regionally, Mr. Hudson has had work shown at the Orlando Rep, Actor's Shakespeare Company of New Jersey, Luna Stage, the Pantages in Minneapolis, the Berkshire Theater ... read more
Anne Kauffman is an American director known primarily for her work on new plays, mainly in the New York area. She is a founding member of the theater group the Civilians. She made her Broadway debut with the Scott McPherson play Marvin's Room (2017) and returned with the revival of the Lorraine Hansberry play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023).
Kauffman's past regional productions include Body Awareness by Annie Baker (2012) at the Wilma Theater; and Pulitzer Prize finalist Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo (2009); The Flea and the Professor by Jordan Harrison at the Arden Theatre Company (2011); Six ... read more
Recent Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Nights' Dream (Public, Delacorte Theater, Central Park), The Antipodes (Signature), The Effect (Barrow Street), Familiar, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination). Other notable Off-Broadway: When The Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater, Lucille Lortel Award), Blasted (Soho Rep, American Theatre Wing Hewes Award), Bug (Lucille Lortel and OBIE Awards). 2010 OBIE award for Sustained Excellence. ... read more