SPARC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Program Manager / Teaching Artist
Audrey Brooks is a Bay Area native who has been acting, directing, and working as a teaching artist for many years. She has worked on several productions, some of her favorites with the Brown Bag Theatre Company under Laura Wayth at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She also enjoyed performing in Godspell, Fools, and Hair at Las Positas College. Audrey has taught in many of the Livermore 2nd grade classes with the So Wise So Young program, as well as summer camps, with SPARC Theater and other classes with Tri-Valley Young Performers Academy and Town Hall Theatre. She graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Theater with a focus in Acting from SFSU in 2016.
Job Titles:
- Freelance Director
- Grant Writer
- Writer
Leslie Martinson is a freelance director and grant writer. For many years, she was the Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, where she directed the world premiere of The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga by Min Kahng, and audience favorites including Superior Donuts, The Pitmen Painters, and Frost/Nixon. She began her association with SPARC Theater in 2008 directing The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespear, abridged and Lend Me a Tenor in 2011, both at the Concannon Vineyard venue. She is also an executive coach, working with non-profit professionals. Most recently, she directed the world premiere of Jeffrey Lo's Waiting for Next at City Lights Theater in San Jose.
Lindsey Schmeltzer has served as an actor, musical director, and teaching artist throughout the Bay Area. She settled in the Bay Area in 2014 and found a theatre home at SPARC, having performed in the summer festivals and Holiday Readings at Swirl on the Square, and taught the So Wise So Young curriculum in multiple 2nd-grade Livermore classrooms. She has expertise in curriculum design and implementing state and national learning standards.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Founding Artistic Director
Founding Artistic Director Tromovitch is also a tenured professor in Media X at University of the Pacific. She has over 50 professional directing credits in six states. She began her career at The Old Globe Theater, where she assisted directors Jack O'Brien, Tom Moore, and the late John Houseman in the rehearsal room and Bob Berlinger in the Play Discovery Program. She is a Backstage West Garland Award and Indy Award winner for her direction of Amadeus at PCPA TheatreFest. Most recently she directed The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and her own adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac for SPARC, as well as Ecce Homo (a new play about performance capture artists) at University of the Pacific. Lisa was awarded a 2010 Innovation Award for "Risktakers and Dreammakers" hosted by the Livermore Chamber. Past President, Shakespeare Theatre Association. MFA, Southern Methodist University; BA magna cum laude, Dartmouth College; Phi Beta Kappa.
Job Titles:
- Science@Play Program Director