Kate Snodgrass, Producing Director:
Kate is the Artistic Director of both the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon and of Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University. She is the 2001 recipient of the "Theatre Hero" Award from StageSource in Boston and is the author of the Actors' Theatre of Lousiville's Heideman Award-winning and much-anthologized play Haiku. Her play Observatory Conditions won the Provincetown Theatre Company’s Playwriting Award and an IRNE for "Best New Play" in 1999. Kate is the National Vice Chair of Playwriting at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and has taught at Boston University, the Harvard Extension School, Wellesley College, Brandeis University, the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, among others. She is a member of Actors' Equity, A.F.T.R.A., and the Dramatists' Guild and lectures in Playwriting in the Boston University Graduate School.
Burgess Clark, Educational Director
Burgess recently joined North Shore Music Theatre as Director of Education. A 20 year professional theatre educator, Clark was nominated in 1991 as a “Distinguished Teacher in the Arts” by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts for encouraging and supporting students with exceptional artistic achievement. Burgess has taught for the University of Hawaii and acted as Director of Theatre for The Mid-Pacific Institute. He also served as Director of Education for the Honolulu Theatre for Youth and was the Director of Theatre at the Perry-Mansfield School of the Arts in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. From 1988-94, Clark was the National Instructor for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts/Office of Very Special Arts, working with special populations and those who educate them. Five of his students have won the National Young Playwrights' Award. An accomplished writer, Burgess completed work in 2000 on the Emmy-nominated documentary series Part of the Family for PBS, hosted by Gary Burghoff. Most recently, he was the recipient of the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild's 2000 Julie Harris Award for his play, The Ivory Alphabet. Burgess was also honored at the 15th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival as the "New Voice in American Theatre." In 1999, he was awarded the Vermont Playwright's Award for his drama, The Touch. Purple Hearts was produced in San Francisco and toured to the Edinburgh Theatre Festival in Scotland where it placed among the "Best of Fest." A member of the Dramatists’ Guild, Burgess has won several other playwriting awards, including "Best Play" from the National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for playwriting and a Special Services Achievement Award from the U.S. Army for Purple Hearts. Burgess’ other works include Down Came the Rain, Relative Strangers, The Velveteen Rabbit, Island of the Blue Dolphins and most currently a new adaptation of Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales for the National Theatre of the Deaf. He is a member of the board of the New England Theatre Conference.
John B. Welch, Management Consultant:
Jack was former Managing Director and Chief Editor of Baker’s Plays in Boston. He is one of the founders of StageSource, The Alliance of Theatre Artists and Producers, and is the recipient of Boston’s first Theatre Hero Award in 2000. He has been a panelist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Boston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Jack has been a guest speaker for The Dramatists’ Guild of America, The Educational Theatre Association and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. He is now working independently, representing playwrights in production on the national and international stage.
Toby Schine, Education Consultant:
(Assistant Director of Education) Toby joined the Education Department at North Shore in the Fall of 2005. As a director, he's worked for NSMT's 2005 Summer Stages directing "Seussical." Other directing credits include Chamber Music at Peoples Academy (VT), A Play Called Noah's Flood at Addison Repertory Theatre (VT), Mother Night at Reed College (Portland,OR). As an actor, Toby's favorite projects include Endgame, Travesties, Amerika!, and Happy End. Toby has also served as an administrator in arts education at the UNBOUND Program (Morrisville, VT) and has worked with the VT Rural Partnership, Vermont Young Playwright's Festival, and 21st Century Program to develop arts programming and opportunities for youth in Central VT. When he's not teaching classes or involved in a production, he enjoys heading outdoors to hike, climb or go canoeing. Toby has recently relocated to the Beverly area.
Dana Yeaton, Artistic Consultant:
Dana is the recipient of the 2002 "New Voice in American Theatre" award from the William Inge Theatre Festival. His short play Helen At Risk won the Heideman Award from the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville and his full-length drama Mad River Rising received the Moss Hart Award from the New England Theatre Conference. In 2000, his adaptation of Chris Bohjalian's best-selling novel Midwives premiered at Vermont Stage Company and received Vermont's Bessie Award. It has since been produced at the Clarence Brown Theatre in Tennessee and at North Carolina Stage. Dana has received three fellowships in playwriting from the Vermont Arts Council and two from the Shenandoah International Playwrights Retreat. His plays in print include Alice In Love, The Big Random, Men In Heat, Helen At Risk, Midwives and Mad River Rising. He teaches playwriting at Middlebury College and is Founding Director of the Vermont Young Playwrights Project.
