HUNTINGTON - Key Persons
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- Member of the Officers Team
- Vice Chair
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- Human Resources Coordinator
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- Associate Wardrobe Supervisor
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- Manager of Education Operations
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- Ticketing Associate
- Director of Ticketing
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- Clerk
- Member of the Officers Team
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- Associate Lighting Supervisor
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- Associate Director of Individual Giving
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- Artistic and Casting Associate
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- Ticketing Associate
- Season and Group Sales Manager
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- Production and Company Management Assistant
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Leadership and Board
Christopher Mannelli (Executive Director effective November 2023) is a seasoned theatre executive with a track record of strategic thinking and sound organizational leadership during periods of transition and growth. He has forged deep and meaningful connections with various local communities, and been responsible for innovative and successful fundraising and audience engagement initiatives.
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- Chairman
- Member of the Officers Team
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- Associate Director of Marketing
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- Development Research & Communications Coordinator
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- Chief Development Officer
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- Events & Engagement Officer
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- Director
- Education Associate
Frances Hellums (she/hers) is an actor, director, and educator. Born in London, England, raised in Houston, Texas, she is now based out of the Greater Boston area.
Frances is a graduate of Boston University School of Theatre where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts Performance with artistic concentrations in Musical Theatre and Directing as well as an academic concentration in Applied Human Development and Psychology. While at Boston University Frances spent time at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France where she studied French, painting, and psychology. She also attended ballet classes at L'Ecole de Danse Classique d'Aix. She is also a proud alum of the Vineyard Arts Project Musical Theatre Lab and Boston University Summer Theatre Institute.
Frances Hellums (she/hers) is an actor, director, and educator. Born in London, England, raised in Houston, Texas, she is now based out of the Greater Boston area.
Frances is a graduate of Boston University School of Theatre where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts Performance with artistic concentrations in Musical Theatre and Directing as well as an academic concentration in Applied Human Development and Psychology. While at Boston University Frances spent time at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France where she studied French, painting, and psychology. She also attended ballet classes at L'Ecole de Danse Classique d'Aix. She is also a proud alum of the Vineyard Arts Project Musical Theatre Lab and Boston University Summer Theatre Institute.
While attending Boston University, Frances worked extensively with Theater in the Open as an actor, teaching artist, and curriculum consultant. During the summer of 2020, Frances designed and implemented an updated visual arts curriculum for TITO's Summer Arts Workshop to be taught virtually during the coronavirus pandemic. She remained a consultant for the program into the next year as she adapted the curriculum for a return to in person programming.
In conjunction with her passion for theatre education, Frances' study of behavioral health and artistic practice has sparked an acute interest in the therapeutic potential of art making and play in education and clinical psychology. After graduation, Frances joined ARTrelief, an Expressive Arts Therapy Center in Watertown, MA as a Therapeutic Mentor where she worked with children coping with complex trauma, behavioral struggles, ASD and various other psychological diagnosis.
As an artist Frances focuses on the creation of organic storytelling through creating spaces of deep humanity and radical empathy. She puts an emphasis on an understanding of the work that transcends narrative and uses movement and stage picture to connect to truth and authenticity.
As an educator and human being her guiding mission is that we are each doing the best we can with the resources we have available to us. Only by identifying needs and finding ways to address those needs will we all be able thrive. She hopes to be a resource and support to young people on their own unique journeys to become their best selves and realize their fullest potential.
In addition to her work at the Huntington, Frances continues to substitute teach grades k-8, and pursue her artistic career as an actor and director.
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- Calderwood Management Associate
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- Calderwood Operations Associate
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- Digital Marketing Coordinator
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- Institutional Giving Manager
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- Calderwood Pavilion House Sound Engineer
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- Calderwood Associate House Manager
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- Assistant Properties Director
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- Calderwood Pavilion Manager
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- Venue Covid Safety Manager
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- Executive Assistant to Artistic Director
Kristine Holmes designed Mala for ArtsEmerson that was remounted for The Huntington and the Guthrie. She is the full-time Prop Director at The Huntington and has been with the company for 32 years.
Kristine Holmes designed Mala for ArtsEmerson that was remounted for The Huntington and the Guthrie. She is the full-time Prop Director at The Huntington and has been with the company for 32 years. She has put her design skills to work helping other designers realize their designs for over 175 productions. Some of which have made their way to Broadway, including Hedda Gabler and Present Laughter. Summer vacations find her traveling with Antiques Roadshow as Set Decorator. She has been setting up some amazing Roadshow finds for the camera for the past 22 seasons.
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- Education Programs Associate
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- Production & Company Management Assistant
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- Member of the Officers Team
- Treasurer
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- Director of Accounting and Finance
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- Artistic Director
- Member of the Leadership and Board
Loretta Greco (Artistic Director) is an artistic director, producer, and director with over two decades of artistic leadership experience. Her passion is championing groundbreaking artists whose work asks robust questions about our humanity, and fostering a nurturing, rigorous artistic home for extraordinary theatremakers and audiences.
Her freelance directing career spans the spectrum from reimagined classics to musicals and world premieres. Greco's impact on the field is significant. 20 of the 26 world premieres she developed and produced have gone on to have to subsequent productions in New York and throughout the country (in 24 states) and internationally. Highlights include: the world premieres of Oedipus el Rey by Luis Alfaro; Hir by Taylor Mac; Don't Eat the Mangos by Ricardo Perez Gonzalez; American Hwangap by Lloyd Suh; and the chamber opera Arlington by Victor Lodato and Polly Pen. Large scale productions include the Magic Theatre's rolling world premiere of Taylor Mac's five-hour allegory, The Lily's Revenge with 36 performers and 6 women directors; the repertory of Mfoniso Udofia's Sojourners and runboyrun; Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters; and Barbara Hammond's The Eva Trilogy among others. During her tenure at the Magic Theatre, playwrights have been recognized as Pulitzer finalists, Tony Award nominees, Herb Alpert honorees, Academy Award winners, and MacArthur "Genius" Award recipients.
Throughout her career, Greco has worked diligently to seek and create exciting community partnerships. Her community collaborations at the Magic included Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music in association with The Curran Theatre, Pomegranate Arts, and Stanford Live; the repertory of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Brother/Sister Plays with ACT and Marin Theatre Company, and the Sheparding America celebration with ACT, Campo Santo, Crowded Fire, and Word for Word, among others. A passionate community builder, Greco spearheaded Magic's Tenderloin Arts and Community programs for youth and adults and the Magic Laney College collaboration.
Greco has directed both premieres and reimagined classics in New York, San Francisco, and throughout the country. She directed Calderon's Life is a Dream for Cal Shakes, and critically acclaimed American revivals such as Fool for Love by Sam Shepard for Magic and Speed the Plow by David Mamet for American Conservatory Theater. She also developed and directed the world premiere of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Lackawanna Blues for The Public Theater and directed the national tour of Emily Mann's Having Our Say and its international premiere at the historic Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
In addition to her long tenure as Magic Theatre's Artistic Director, she has served as Producing Artistic Director of New York's WP Theater (formerly known as the Women's Project) where she championed and produced a who's who of theatre women including, Liesl Tommy, Annie Dorsen, Anne Kaufman, Lisa D'Amour, Katie Pearl, Leigh Silverman, and Diane Paulus, among many others. As Associate Director and staff producer of the McCarter Theatre Center, Greco originated their Second Stage-On-Stage festival, commissioning and producing plays from dozens of writers, including Nilo Cruz, Adrienne Kennedy, and Doug Wright, while line producing mainstage premieres such as Anna Deveare Smith's Twilight, Athol Fugard's Valley Song, Stephen Wadsworth's The Triumph of Love, and Mann's Having Our Say which then moved to Broadway.
Greco has taught at UCSD and at Brown University. She has served on TCG/Fox, ART/ New York, Pew Center for Arts, Drama League, and Herb Alpert Foundation panels. She is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and the recipient of Bay Area Critic's Association Awards, Drama League fellowships, the Princess Grace Award, a Sundance/Luma Director's fellowship, the 2018 Zelda Fichandler Award, the 2019 Gene Price Award, an honorary Acting Degree from American Conservatory Theatre, and the 2020 Sam Shepard Legacy Award. She is the proud mother of Sophia Greco Brill.
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- Ticketing Associate
- Calderwood Pavilion Ticketing Coordinator
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- Associate Director of Education & Practical Learning
Marisa Jones (she/her/hers) received a B.F.A in Theatre Education with a minor in writing from Emerson College where she was the recipient of the Phyllis A. McCullough Scholarship for Performing Arts. Marisa co-authored (Colby, Nelson) the paper, Signs of Change: New Directions in Theatre Education published in the Youth Theatre Journal. Marisa went on to earn an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education as part of the Arts in Education program (A.I.E.) and dedicated part of her study to a concentration in Human Development & Psychology.
Marisa Jones (she/her/hers) received a B.F.A in Theatre Education with a minor in writing from Emerson College where she was the recipient of the Phyllis A. McCullough Scholarship for Performing Arts. Marisa co-authored (Colby, Nelson) the paper, Signs of Change: New Directions in Theatre Education published in the Youth Theatre Journal. Marisa went on to earn an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education as part of the Arts in Education program (A.I.E.) and dedicated part of her study to a concentration in Human Development & Psychology.
Marisa joined The Huntington in the summer of 2002, after many years acting and directing in Boston, where she performed in The Crucible, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Waiting for Godot, among others, and she was also the Assistant Director for Bunnicula, one of her all-time favorite children's theatre productions, on the Emerson Mainstage. Her long tenure at The Huntington has also afforded her some unique opportunities, as she ushered in the first "open caption" event at The Huntington as part of the larger Accessibility programming, and she has written countless curriculum guides for The Huntington's premier Student Matinee series.
Marisa is a co-teacher for EPIC, The Huntington's afterschool program serving 8th-12th grade students. Outside of The Huntington, Marisa has mentored future theatre educators at the post-secondary level at James Madison University, and currently teaches acting, history of theatre, introduction to the arts and speech at Roxbury Community College. She currently serves as a consultant and guest artist for several local arts organizations and in 2020 received her online teaching credential through Quality Matters. She is licensed to teach Communication & the Performing Arts (All Levels) in the state of Massachusetts and has been teaching, directing, and writing for students in and around the Boston area since 2000.
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- General Management Assistant
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- Development Operations & Database Manager
Meg O'Brien (she/her/hers) is in her 15th season at The Huntington where she has been the Director of Education since 2017. Meg has worked professionally as an access coordinator, actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, finance director, arts administrator, and stage manager; however, her passion lives with theatre education. For 19 years Meg has made her living teaching students of all ages about the world of the theater.
Meg O'Brien (she/her/hers) is in her 15th season at The Huntington where she has been the Director of Education since 2017. Meg has worked professionally as an access coordinator, actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, finance director, arts administrator, and stage manager; however, her passion lives with theatre education. For 19 years Meg has made her living teaching students of all ages about the world of the theater. Since joining The Huntington in 2008, Meg has directed, stage managed, and/or produced more than 40 performances and showcases for The Huntington's Education Department. Meg is a founding member of The Huntington's Equity and Anti-Racism (HEAR) Task Force, serving since its inception in June 2020. As Access Coordinator, Meg has significantly expanded programming during her tenure, helping to make Huntington productions more inclusive and accessible, which included working directly with ticketing to successfully launch season ticket series for AD, ASL, and OC patrons, and shepherding the return of Open Caption performances in 2019 for the first time in 10 years. Wheelock Family Theatre named Meg an "Astonishing Woman" in 2020, and in 2019 Meg was awarded the Community Access Award from the Bay State Council for the Blind. In 2017 Meg was awarded the Huntington's Cohen Award for Excellence. Meg was a national Network Co-Chair of the Professional Theatre Network with AATE (American Alliance for Theatre and Education) from 2018- 2022 and has presented at AATE's National Conference many times. Meg was selected with Sydney Chaffee, Codman Academy's 9th grade Humanities Teacher (and the 2017 MA and National Teacher of the Year) to present a master class at the 2016 EL National Conference (centered around their partnership in the classroom teaching theatre to bring their humanities curriculum to life in performance). Meg has also been a guest lecturer at Emerson College, Boston University, and for pediatric residents at Mass General and Boston Children's Hospital. Meg is on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild (METG) and serves as an adjudicator for their HS monologue competition and their annual High School Drama Festival. After receiving her B.F.A in Acting from the University of Connecticut in 2004, Meg lived in Stockbridge, MA and was an Artist in Residence with the Berkshire Theatre Group. Meg was a member of the stage management team for BTG's first three community productions (The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Oliver!) each of which had casts with more than 125 children. In 2005 Meg helped launch BTG's Richie Dupont Fund which still provides scholarships to students enabling them to pursue their dreams of being onstage and affords them the opportunity to participate in BTG's education programs. Favorite professional stage acting credits include dozens of roles in Theatre for Young Audiences touring productions, Assassins (Emma Goldman), Amadeus, and A Christmas Carol (Mrs. Fezziwig, twice) at the Berkshire Theatre Group, The Taming of the Shrew (Biondello) and King John (Prince Henry) at Shakespeare & Company, as well as featured roles in Candide, Violet, Sweeney Todd, The Crucible, The House of Bernarda Alba, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, and Seeing Laughter at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre. In addition to her work at The Huntington, Meg was a Producer and Managing Director at the award-winning Bad Habit Productions from 2011 - 2015, where she helped BHP develop and launch their popular family programming and sensory-friendly performances. From 2015-2017 Meg served as the President of the Board of Directors at BHP, which closed in 2017 after 10 successful seasons.
Naheem Garcia (he/him/el), Teaching Artist, Codman Academy Partnership and August Wilson Monologue Competition, professionally known as Naheem, has been an actor and theatre educator for more than twenty years. He grew up in Boston, arriving here from Cuba with his mother, grandmother and aunt in 1968. He is proudly bilingual (English and Spanish) and known for his deep, mellifluous voice. Naheem has worked extensively in the Northeast, including with The Huntington Theatre Company, Boston Youth Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Company One, Kennedy Library (Moakley Public Speaking Program), and New African Theatre Company.
Naheem Garcia (he/him/el), Teaching Artist, Codman Academy Partnership and August Wilson Monologue Competition, professionally known as Naheem, has been an actor and theatre educator for more than twenty years. He grew up in Boston, arriving here from Cuba with his mother, grandmother and aunt in 1968. He is proudly bilingual (English and Spanish) and known for his deep, mellifluous voice. Naheem has worked extensively in the Northeast, including with The Huntington Theatre Company, Boston Youth Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Company One, Kennedy Library (Moakley Public Speaking Program), and New African Theatre Company. He is an adjudicator for Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild. In recognition of his excellence as a theatre educator, he represented the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation for NeighborWorks American and Community Leadership Institute in 2017. A member of AFTRA and SAG, Naheem has appeared in several prominent Hollywood-and independently-produced feature films. A selected list includes; The Sleepover (Netflix), Emma (Hallmark), Free Guy (Ryan Reynolds), Jungleland (Charlie Hunnam, Jessica Barden, Jack O'Connell), Equalizer2 (Denzel Washington), Daddy's Home2 (Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow), Joy (Jennifer Lawrence), Black Mass (Johnny Depp), The Proposal (Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds), The Heat (Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy), Lift (Kerry Washington), Maiden Heist (Morgan Freeman, Christopher Waken, William H. Macy, Marsha Gay Harden), and Purge3 Election Year (Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson). His television work includes Showtime's SMILF (Frankie Shaw and Rosie O'Donnell) and voice-over work and appearances in commercials for Subways, Dunkin Donuts and Visa. Naheem's work has been lauded by his peers and he received the El Planeta Powermeter 100 (2014) and Sojourner Truth Award (2007). He completed the Aesthetic Education Immersion program with the Lincoln Center Summer Forum at Julliard in 2017. Naheem continues his path as an actor and theatre educator whose mission is to represent and encourage audiences and youth through his work.
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- Member of the Officers Team
- President
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- Human Resources / HR Director
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- Community Engagement Manager
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- Ticketing Associate
- Ticketing Coordinator
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- Information Technology / IT Director
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- Calderwood Pavilion Operations Supervisor
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- Promotions and Community Specialist
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- Lighting & Projections Supervisor
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- Assistant Costume Director
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- Social Content & Marketing Coordinator