Originally from North Dakota, Jenn joined The Looking Glass Theatre in late September 2005 and is thrilled to be a part of the organization. As Managing Director, she manages all functions of Looking Glass spaces and the Looking Glass Theatre as an artistic, creative not-for-profit organization. From our internship program and acting classes to rentals and each season's many productions, Jenn is at the forefront of Looking Glass business.
Also an actress, Jenn was most recently seen in What Happens to Women Here at Richmond Sheperd Theatre (Stone Soup Theatre Arts). She has appeared in The Maguffin (Philadelphia Fringe Festival) at Second Stage at The Adrienne (Stone Soup), The Hope Chest (Foundry Players, Washington DC), Stone Soup's world premiere of The Ghost Dancers (Sanford Meisner Theatre) and the production's return engagement in the MITF (June Havoc Theatre, MITF Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play), A Chicken Goes to Broadway (Samuel French Short Play Festival/Peter Jay Sharp Theatre), Shapeshifter at The Barrow Group Theatre, Young Jean Lee's Church at The Public Theater and Always Family at The Kirk Theater on Theatre Row (Small Pond Entertainment). She was last seen on the Looking Glass stage in Brecht's Baal.
CONTACT: admin@lookingglasstheatrenyc.com OR lookingglass.jenn@gmail.com
JENN BOEHM
Managing Director, Artistic Associate
Chanda Calentine is a graduate of Ohio University, holding a B.S. in Organizational Communication, with minors in Dance and Theater. Originally from Ohio, Chanda has been active in New York City's theater community as a performer, director, choreographer, teacher and arts administrator. Currently, she serves as the Development Director/ Artistic Associate at The Looking Glass Theatre where she most recently directed , The Hope Chest and is work shopping many new plays. Recent NYC directing credits include All In My Head, Her Only Customer, Bite Your Tongue (IMPACT Theater), In the Beginning, and Shards; Volume 1 (Horse Trade Theater Group).
Chanda also teaches after school programs including dance, theater, film, solar energy and marine biology to children in Brooklyn and Manhattan. She feels art education is extremely important in schools to help create character development, communication, problem solving and creative thought.
In addition, Chanda is a docent at the New York Aquarium, where she interacts with the public creating awareness of the importance of conservation and the preservation of species and the environment. She also volunteers at I.N.N. World Report, a non-profit non-partisan TV news show. She would also like to remind everyone to be an organ donor and support organ donation, it saves lives.
CONTACT: develop@lookingglasstheatrenyc.com OR lookingglass.chanda@gmail.com
CHANDA CALENTINE
Development Director, Artistic Associate, Director
Erica began her Looking Glass journey as a costume designer. She designed numerous shows here, including Aphrodite’s Dungeon, A Carole Christmas, and the legendary Cardboard Moon. Outside of the Glass, she designed such projects as The Taming of the Shrew for Riverside Shakespeare Co., the film A Statue in Time, As You Like It in Riverside Park for Shakespeare Stage Company, and Sly Fox at the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
Erica graduated Vassar College back when they wore hoop skirts (well, she wore them), and has studied at The Art Students League, the Polokov Studio and NYU. She is a native New Yorker, a belly dance enthusiast and an FM radio addict. She has been literary manager at the Looking Glass since 2002, and someday she hopes to figure out exactly what a literary manager does…
CONTACT: lgtlit@yahoo.com
ERICA NILSON
Literary Manager
ALIZA SHANE
Artistic Associate, Forum Producer, Director
Most recently, Aliza wrote and directed The Spanish Wives: A Groovy Tale of Peace, Love and Restoration, based on the restoration play by Mary Griffith Pix. Prior to that, Aliza wrote and directed a new children's show, The Three Sillies at Looking Glass, for which she earned a 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Script.
With the Looking Glass, Aliza began as an AD/SM in the Spring 2005 Forum. She then went on to direct the new works Cancel the Arugula and Aquarium in the next Forums. In last Winter’s Forum, she adapted and directed the award-winning The Misanthrope by Molière. More recently, her adaptation of Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid premiered in the Spring Forum and also won multiple awards from the Looking Glass. She has worked as the Forum General Coordinator since September 2006.
Born and raised in New York, Aliza has a BA in Theatre from Queens College. She has worked as a director, stage manager and writer in many different venues since. With Genesis Repertory, she directed Hamlet, The First Quarto and assistant directed both Avenge! The Spanish Tragedy, (Spotlight On Festival) and The Duel, (Samuel French Festival). She co-directed The Bacchae, (Cypreco Theatre Co.) which was performed, among other places, at the Cyprus Consulate and the HBO Summer Stage. She directed the showcase Cabaret: A New World (Towards Truth Prod.) and was the AD/SM for Flyers & Other Tales (Midtown International Theatre Festival). At the Gene Frankel Theatre, she directed The Acoustic Nerve (Groove Mama Ink) and Drum Beat (Ciona Taylor Prod.).
CONTACT: lookingglass.aliza@gmail.com
SHARI JOHNSON
Artistic Associate, Director
Shari is currently directing Ask Someone Else, God , which opens Wednesdyda, September 9 at The Looking Glass Theatre. She has directed eight shows at the Looking Glass, most recently Everyman. Other Looking Glass work includes: Not Enough Princesses, "M," Muncie and Mayhem, How to Ruin Romeo and Juliet and Creatures of the Cabaret.
Shari has directed in various theatres throughout Manhattan, including Bowery Poetry Club, the Lamb’s Theatre, Theater 1050, Theatre Studio Inc., and The Outrageous Fortune Company. Ms. Johnson also directed the premiere of Addicted to Christmas at the 2007 Midtown International Theatre Festival. She holds a BA in English and Theatre from Hope College in Michigan and is a member of the improv group Amnesia Wars, which performs experimental long form.
ROSE GINSBERG
Artistic Associate, Director
Rose Ginsberg has been directing shows in New York City since 2005, which is also as long as she has been at The Looking Glass Theatre. She has directed six plays at Looking Glass, including Lesbian Bathhouse, The Taming of the Shrew, Gentle Girl, and Doing Shakespeare, as well as teaching a scene study class focusing on gender performance. Other recent credits include Chekhov’s The Proposal and The Bear, Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, and The Heart of Gravesend, all at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, where she is a company member. A feminist in work as well as in life, Rose has directed both The Vagina Monologues (Stiletto Project at Looking Glass Theatre) and A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer (_gaia Studio in association with Arthouse Productions) for Eve Ensler’s V-Day organization, raising money to help stop violence against women and girls. Her work has also been seen at Ensemble Studio Theatre and Dixon Place.
Rose is currently developing several new projects, including Wake Her Up, a rock musical based on the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros, and The Band Behind the Curtain, a rock concert/play that combines the stories of The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland with the classic road trip across America. In addition, she is working on several Shakespeare adaptations, including a musical interpretation of The Tempest.
ERIN WINEBARK
Artistic Associate/Director
Erin Winebark hails from the "suburbs" of Punxsutawney, PA, but has called NYC her home since 2003. Most recently, Erin wrote and directed The Merchant of Venice, Florida in the Winter 2008 Forum at the Looking Glass. Her other directing credits include Spirits! by Karin Diann Williams, Danielle Steel Writes Children's Novels by Lauren D. Yee, and The Apple Tree by Dianna A. Lewis, the latter of which won multiple Lookin Glass Fourm awards. Also a musician and actress, Erin holds a B.S. in Music Education/Bassoon from Indiana University of Pennsylvania/Robert E. Cook Honors College and a professional certificate in Studio Acting from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She has studied comedic sketch writing with Ali Farahnakian at the P.I.T. in NYC and has begun writing her first children's show which will likely premeire at The Looking Glass Theatre in Spring 2010.
TERRI MCKINSTRY
Artistic Associate/Playwright
Biographical information coming soon!!!
KENNETH NOWELL
Graphic Design
Pictured here with Justine (of course!), Kenneth Nowell handles the majority of graphic design needs for Looking Glass productions.
Justine Lambert is the founder and artistic director of The Looking Glass Theatre in New York started in 1993. A recipient of The Lucille Lortel Award for her work with Looking Glass she has been working in theater in NY for over 25 years; directing, acting in and producing dozens of shows, ranging from classical to contemporary, traditional to experimental. In 2003, she was named one of the top 100 New Yorkers by NY Resident magazine. Her direction of Three Sisters at Looking Glass won an Off Off Broadway Review Award for Best Production and her Direction of M at Turnip Theatre won her Honorable Mention as Best Director. From 1989 through 1991, she was co-Artistic Director of Peregrine Theater, a company that produced classics and children’s work in Central Park. (MORE)
Yasmine Beverly Rana is a playwright, drama therapist, and educator with productions and readings in the United States, England, Greece, South Africa and the Czech Republic. Her play, The War Zone is My Bed will have its premiere production at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in October under the direction of La MaMa Experiments curator, George Ferencz. Publications include an upcoming anthology of her plays, The Alabama Literary Review, Blackbird, The Best Stage Scenes and Best Women's Monologues Series, The Kenyon Review, US 1 Worksheets, and TDR: The Drama Review (forthcoming). Yasmine has also contributed articles and a chapter to journals and textbooks about the creative arts therapies and has presented at conferences in the United States and abroad.
She is privileged to have had her play Blood Sky premiere at The Looking Glass Theatre under the direction of founder and artistic director, Justine Lambert, who also directed Yasmine's short play, "M" at various New York festivals.
KARIN WILLIAMS
Artistic Associate/Playwright
Karin Diann Williams is the author of Justine, winner of the Windmill Playwrights Festival at Texas Tech University, and Australia, winner of the UNM Centennial Playwriting Competition. In NYC, her work has been produced by The Looking Glass Theatre, the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre Digital Performance Institute, This Woman’s Work Theater Company, Art House Productions, Blue Box Productions, Lamia Ink! and Muse of Fire Theater, and seen in the Midtown International Theatre Festival and the Strawberry One Act Festival.
San Diego’s Fritz Theatre – where she served as Playwright-In-Residence from 1992-2001 – staged her plays Australia, Room, Susan Katrina and Jill, The Hatchet, Quiz, and The Third Voice of the Nightjar.
Elsewhere, her plays have been showcased in Boston Theatreworks BTW Unbound Festival and the Collaboraction Sketchbook in Chicago. Her work is available online through Original Works Publishing.
She is a member of the Manhattan Oracles, the International Center for Women Playwrights and The Dramatist Guild. She has an M.A. in Theatre from the University of New Mexico.
MEGUMI HAGGERTY
Assistant Managing Director, Interns Program Coordinator
A graduate of Emerson College with a B.A. in Theatre Education and emphasis in Acting, Megumi is thrilled to be a part of The Looking Glass Theatre. As intern program coordinator she oversees each internship session. Megumi was most recently seen in the Spring 2009 Writer/Director Forum as Regina Stratford in Pia Wilson’s All The Pretty Girls. Past credits include: Ceremonies 17 (Theatre for New City), Surviving the Nian (Theatre Offensive, Independent Review of New England nominee for Best Actress in a Musical), Pullman Car Hiawatha (Emerson College).
CONTACT: lookingglass.megumi@gmail.com
JACQUELYN HONEYBOURNE
Artistic Associate, Acting Instructor
COMING SOON!
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