PEOPLE'S LIGHT - Key Persons
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- Artistic Director
- Executive
- Trustee
- Senior Director of Special Projects & Executive Artistic Director Emerita
Executive Artistic Director Abigail Adams has been associated with People's Light for over 40 years, serving as artistic leader for over two decades and chief executive for the past 10 years. Adams has directed more than sixty plays at People's Light, including The Children, Our Town, Morning's at Seven (Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play), Project Dawn, The Matchmaker, Auctioning the Ainsleys, How to Write a New Book for the Bible, The Cherry Orchard, The Rainmaker, The Trip to Bountiful, Dividing the Estate, Nathan the Wise, and In the Blood (Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play). She established the New Voices Ensemble at People's Light in 1990, which received the White House Coming up Taller Award in 2000. She has directed readings and workshops of new plays for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Circle Rep, New York Stage and Film, and the Public Theatre. Abbey served for ten years on the faculty of Swarthmore College and has also taught at New York University, Bryn Mawr College, Carnegie Mellon University, and The Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Ursinus College. She is married to Lee Devin.
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- Community Programs Creative Director I Resident Associate Director
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- Honorary Trustee
- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Assistant Properties Manager
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- Honorary Trustee
- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Associate Director of Ticketing & Sales
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- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Graphic Designer
- Marketing Coordinator
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- Farmhouse Sales & Event Manager
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- Associate Producer & Director of New Works
Erin has a fourteen-year history with People's Light beginning as an actor and teaching artist. After twenty years with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival as Education Director, Playwright, Director, Choreographer, Casting Director, and Actor and five years in Los Angeles teaching, Erin decided to move into arts administration. In 2016, Erin returned to People's Light as the Executive Associate managing contracts, human resources, company management, and casting. Erin also worked for Morgan Stanley with the Securitized Product Group in New York gaining her financial and administrative bench strength. Erin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Acting and Directing from DeSales University, where she also taught. Her Master of Fine Arts in Acting is from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Play House. Erin lives in Malvern with her husband Bryan and their children, Alden and Johnny Grace.
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- Director of Marketing, Sales, & Patron Engagement
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- Administrative Consultant
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- Chairman of the Honorary Board
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- Member of the Board Officers Team
- Treasurer
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- Member of the Board Officers Team
- President
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- Member of the Board Officers Team
- Vice President
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- Trustee
- Director of Education & Civic Practice
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- Director of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility ( IDEA ) Programming
Housed in a beautifully restored 18th-century stone barn, the Leonard C. Haas Stage is the larger of our two performance venues and is located in the first building on the People's Light campus.
When in its traditional orientation, the theatre has three sections (center, right, and left), 15 rows, and 340 seats. There are no obstructed views, and no seat is more than 60 feet from the stage. The theatre and lobby are completely wheelchair accessible and feature an elevator and an automatic door at the ground floor entrance. Visit our Accessibility page for more details.
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- Company Manager & Casting Associate
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- Director of Artist Training
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- Assistant General Manager
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- Development Operations Coordinator
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- Associate Director of Development
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- Associate Producing Director
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- Associate
- Production Manager
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- Resident Teaching Artist & New Voices Program Director
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- Community Programs Associate
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- Member of the Board Officers Team
- Secretary
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- Administrative & Marketing Assistant
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- Director of Farmhouse Operations
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- Honorary Trustee
- Member of the Honorary Board
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- Associate Artistic Director
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- Senior Accountant & Benefit Specialist
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- Executive
- Executive Leadership
- People 's Light As Associate Artistic Director
- Producing Artistic Director
(He/him) Zak joined People's Light as Associate Artistic Director in 2011, became Producing Director in 2013, and was promoted to Producing Artistic Director in 2022. He is a multifaceted artist-writer, composer, director, and dramaturg -with nearly 30 years of experience producing theatre and developing new plays and musicals, including the World and U.S. Premieres of Mud Row by Dominique Morisseau, Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, Project Dawn by Karen Hartman, Barcelona by Bess Wohl, No Child... by Nilaja Sun, Palace of The End by Judith Thompson, and Hannah and Martin by Kate Fodor, as well as the highly acclaimed New York Premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play. Prior to People's Light, Zak was Associate to Broadway producer Margo Lion, and the Founding Executive Director of Artistic Programming with Epic Theatre Ensemble, a multi-award winning Off-Broadway theatre company. Zak's plays include The Harassment of Iris Malloy, Beauty on the Vine, and A Breath Short of Breathing. He was the adaptor/composer for a new music-filled version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol that People's Light premiered in 2021, as well as the co-author/composer of Such Things As Vampires, which received a Barrymore Award for original music. A former soap writer for NBC's Days of Our Lives, Zak also wrote two episodes of People's Light's Covid-era digital series America 2am. Zak has published articles on Howlround.com and spoken at numerous conferences about the New Play Frontiers Residency & Commission Program at People's Light as well as other subjects. He is married to Teri Lamm. They have two sons, Eliot and Theo.