STAFF

SHAUNDA McDILL (Managing Director) is honored to lead Pittsburgh Public Theater. Shaunda has nearly two decades of arts management and nonprofit leadership experience. She previously worked with The Heinz Endowments since 2017 as program officer for arts and culture, where she worked to promote the strength and vitality of a suite of Pittsburgh-based artists and arts. She also co-managed the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh initiative, which received a $2 million dollar grant from novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott in 2021. Additionally, Shaunda contributed to and helped found Just Arts, the foundation’s first cross-programmatic social justice initiative, and the Arts|Equity|Reimagined fund, aimed at providing an informed, equitable, and actionable response to the needs of the local arts community during and beyond the coronavirus pandemic. McDill has worked for theater companies across the country including The Goodman Theatre of Chicago, Second Stage Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, and Cornerstone Theater Company. With experience spanning dramaturgy, directing, producing, and playwriting, she also has worked as a publicist for Blake Zidell and Associates, a Brooklyn-based public relations firm representing artists, arts institutions, and festivals. In 2006, she founded DEMASKUS (www.demaskus.com), a national theater collective currently participating in the inaugural B.U.I.L.D. residency at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center supported by the Richard King Mellon Foundation. As an individual artist, McDill worked in residence with Quantum Theatre as part of the company’s inaugural InQubator class. Shaunda has an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, where she studied under Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson, was directed by Ntozake Shange, and instructed by Augusto Boal. She also holds an MFA in theater management from Yale University’s School of Drama (David Geffen School of Drama). 

LINDSAY L. BARR, Manager of Executive & Artistic Operations

Artistic

Brian Pope, Casting & Literary Director
Justin Emeka, Resident Director
Demeatria Boccella, Artist-in-Residence
Matt Acheson, Artist-in-Residence
Jamie Agnello, Artist-in-Residence
José Pérez IV, Resident Fight & Intimacy Director
Mora V. Harris, Resident Playwright
Anya Martin, Resident Playwright
Brian Pope, Resident Playwright
Kelly Trumbull, Resident Playwright
TJ Young, Resident Playwright

Human Resources

Lisha Logan, Director of Human Resources

General Management

Trent Wolfred, Associate Director of Operations
Fred Noel, Systems Coordinator
Maya Holmes, Company Manager
Adrianne Redwood, Events Consultant

Finance

Adam List, Controller
Jim Overton, Finance Manager

External Affairs

Aja Jones, Chief of External Affairs
Chelsey Pucka, Associate Director, Leadership & Campaign Giving
Ali Mohammed Srour, Patron Services Data Analyst
Matty Wingfield, Senior Manager of Institutional Giving 

Education & Partnerships

Dominique Briggs, Director of Participation & Public Partnerships
Jenny Malarkey, Senior Manager of Education

Guest Services

Alana Moye, Guest Services Representative
Ryan Rattley, Guest Services Representative

Production

Monica Bowin, Director of Production & Operations
Rob McLeod, Technical Director
Lisa Harshbarger, Scene Shop Manager
Drew Palajsa, Head Shop Carpenter
Sean DeKonty, Shop Carpenter
Joe Paski, Shop Carpenter
Shannon Seibel, Shop Carpenter
Celeste Parrendo, Charge Scenic Artist
Gay Kahkonen, Properties Head
Kelly Yann, Properties Coordinator
Venise St. Pierre, Costume Shop Head
Erin Prokopchak, Costume Shop Coordinator
Kyle Huber, Costume Shop Associate
Mars Tailor, Wardrobe Head
Joshua Beumer, Head Electrician
Zach Moore, Head Sound Engineer
Mikey Abate, Head Stage Carpenter
Philip Cassidy, Production Key/A-2
Christina Dragen-Dima, Production Key

Core Company

Margot Allison
June Alvilda Almonte
Brian Dzuban
Amy B. Marsalis
Michael McBurney
Ryan Rattley