WALNUT STREET THEATRE - Key Persons

Amanda Pasquini

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Associate Director of Education

AMANDA PASQUINI is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University's Secondary Education program. She began her career at the Walnut as the 2016-2017 Education Apprentice. Since then, Amanda has taught for Walnut's residency program, Theatre School and Camp Walnut and is a certified English instructor in two states. She currently serves as the Walnut's Assistant Director of Education. Amanda is immensely excited to be teaching at her favorite theatre! Broadway Credits: Hello, Dolly!, 1984, A Doll's House Part 2, The Book of Mormon (Assistant to the Producer). Walnut Credits: Junie B. Jones The Musical, Pinkalicious the Musical, Comedy of Errors and Civil War Voices (Assistant Director). Other favorites: Sylvia, The Last Five Years, Of Mice and Men, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Director). Amanda has worked on productions on the Walnut Kids Series stage, Studio 3, and other Philadelphia companies including the Philadelphia Artist's Collective, Philadelphia Fringe and the Philadelphia Women's Theatre Festival. www.amandapasquini.com

Ann Marie Richter

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Alumni Trustee

Anya Loverdi

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Assistant Costume Shop Manager

Ashok N. Bakhru

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Alumni Trustee

Audrey Merves

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Member of the Walnut Street Theatre Board of Trustees

Barry Genkin

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Alumni Trustee

Bernard Havard

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President of the Walnut Street Theatre Board of Trustees
President & Producing Artistic Director

Brian Froonjian - CTO

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Technical Director

Brian Kurtas

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Associate Artistic Director

Bruce Belzak

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Alumni Trustee

Bruce Myers

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Facilities Manager

Craig R. MacQueen

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Alumni Trustee

Damon Bonetti

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Director

Damon Bonetti is a Philadelphia-based actor, director, musician, and teacher. At the Walnut he's been in nine productions and directed two children's musicals. Damon also taught the 2018 summer Shakespeare performance group and directed Hamlet He has performed or directed at many of the area theaters including Philadelphia Theater Company, Lantern Theater, Theater Exile, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater, Passage Theater, Inis Nua, Hedgerow Theater and Theater Horizon. Damon is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Artists' Collective, a site-specific theater company, dedicated to the performance of rare classical plays. He is a professor at Rutgers University - Camden where he teaches Acting I (Intro to Acting and Action), II (Modern American and Turn of the Century), III (Shakespeare), Acting on Film, and a Business of Acting / Audition Prep Class. He is a three time Barrymore Nominee (Outstanding Director, Outstanding Supporting Actor, Outstanding Ensemble) and his company, The PAC, won the 2015 June and Steve Wolfson Award for an Emerging Theater Company. Damon appears extensively on film, commercials and is heard in voice-overs. He received his BA in Theater from DeSales University and earned his MFA at Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory. He is the lead guitarist for Jawbone Junction.