PAPER MILL - Key Persons

MARK S. HOEBEE (Producing Artistic Director) joined the artistic team at Paper Mill Playhouse in 2000. Under his leadership, Paper Mill was presented with the Regional Theatre Tony Award in 2016 and in recent years launched such noteworthy projects as the world premieres of Newsies, in partnership with Disney Theatrical Productions, Honeymoon in Vegas, Ever After, Bandstand, A Bronx Tale, The Honeymooners, My Very Own British Invasion, and The Sting starring Harry Connick, Jr., as well as the American premieres of the 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables, working alongside Cameron Mackintosh, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the national tour of The Bodyguard starring Deborah Cox. On Broadway, Mark directed the Actors Fund benefit of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas starring Jennifer Hudson. He has directed national tours of Victor/Victoria starring Toni Tennille, Dreamgirls, Company, and An Evening of Lerner and Loewe starring Diahann Carroll. His directing credits at Paper Mill include West Side Story; Beauty and the Beast; Annie; Mary Poppins; Dreamgirls; Hello, Dolly! starring Tovah Feldshuh; Harold and Maude: The Musical with Estelle Parsons; The Will Rogers Follies starring John Davidson; Meet Me in St. Louis; The King and I; Miss Saigon; Disney's High School Musical; Peter Pan; Smokey Joe's Cafe; Oliver!; Damn Yankees; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Curtains; and The Full Monty starring Broadway legend Elaine Stritch. He resides in Glen Ridge with his partner Larry Elardo, Broadcast Coordinating Producer for the CBS Evening News and CBS Sunday Morning, and their children, Stephen and Ashley

Megan Lako

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Special Events Coordinator

Mekisha Roberts

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Security Officer

Mel Primorac

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Ticketing Services Representative

Michele Mossay

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Director of Artist Development

Michelle Tempkin

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Education Administrative Manager

Mike Stas

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Mike Stotts

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Executive Director

MIKE STOTTS (Executive Director) joined the Paper Mill staff in February 2019 after serving as managing director of Hartford Stage in Connecticut for thirteen years. There he produced the world premieres of the new musicals Anastasia (also a coproducer of the Broadway production) and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder (2014 Tony Award for Best Musical). Among the more than eighty plays developed and produced during his tenure, notable shows include Rear Window with Kevin Bacon, Man in a Case with Mikhail Baryshnikov, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Horton Foote's The Orphans' Home Cycle, which enjoyed a celebrated run in Hartford and New York, where it won the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle awards. Stotts led a multiyear capital campaign to expand and renovate the entire Hartford Stage theater facility, creating a state-of-the-art, flexible theater for producing a wide array of artistic programming. Prior to Hartford Stage, he served as managing director at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ, and the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Stotts has served on numerous boards, most recently Billings Forge Community Works in Hartford, the Connecticut Arts Alliance, and Hartford Performs. In 2018 he was a member of a delegation of US arts leaders at the Seventh Annual Workshop on Theatre Management at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, China. He is currently on the Tony Awards Nominating Committee and serves on the boards of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and ArtPride NJ. He is originally from Calgary, Alberta.