Tracy Flater, Executive Director [email Tracy]
After an extensive career in the for-profit restaurant business, Tracy merged her passion for the performing arts and knowledge of business management to become an arts administrator in the non-profit sector. She recently spent the past four years as the Director of Off Campus Programs and Facilities for The Hartt School Community Division of the University of Hartford and currently serves as a board member of the following non-profit organizations: The Hartt School, Board of Trustees; Simsbury Main Street Partnership, board of directors; Connecticut Dance Alliance, board of directors. Tracy also serves on the leadership committee for the Simsbury Farmers Market and the Ted Hershey Dance and Music Marathon.
Sean Harris, Artistic Director [email Sean]
Sean Harris has worked at many regional theatres throughout the country including Florida Studio Theatre, Shakespeare on the Sound, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and the Roxy Regional Theatre. His NYC Theatre credits include Dinner with Friends (Tom), Hamlet (Laertes), Much Ado about Nothing (Claudio), and Blood Wedding (Bridegroom). Film/TV: Saturday Night Live, The Early Show, Table One, Captain Karaoke. Being Michael Madsen. Sean has his BA in Acting and directing from DeSales University and an MFA from the New School for Drama/Actors Studio. He has been an acting teacher and director for over ten years and is currently the Director of Theatre at Hall High School in West Hartford, which was recently selected to represent the United States as part of the American High School Theatre Festival in Edinburgh Scotland. Sean is also the Artistic Director of the West Hartford Summer Arts Festival
Darlene Zoller, Artistic Director [email Darlene]
Training: Pittsburgh, PA: Studied with Pat Kelleher, Jane Vranish. Debbie Allen.
Ron Tassone/Point Park University. NYC: Luigi's Dance Center, Broadway Dance Center, STEPS Norfolk, Virginia: Gene Hammett, Theresa Martinez, Patricia Sorrell, Susan Borree/Tidewater Ballet Association Washington: DC Danceworks
Boston, MA: Rhee and Rennie Gold/Dance Theater of Boston
Teaching and Choreography Experience:
Director of Jazz and Tap-Tidewater Ballet Association/Virginia Ballet, Tidewater Dinner Theater, Norfolk's Gifted and Talented Program, Dance Plus, East Hartford, Studio East, Glastonbury, Aprille's Danceprints, Ellington, Glastonbury Dance Center, Little Theater of Manchester, Manchester Musical Players, Mark Twain Masquers, CT Cabaret Theater,
Mark Twain the Musical, The Hartt School Community Division, Hall High School Pops ' n Jazz, Founder/Director stop/time dance theater
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
| David Wurzer, Chairman CT Innovations |
Marsha McCurdy Local Celebrity |
| Chuck Coursey, Vice Chairman Coursey and Co. |
Julianne Roth Companions for Living |
| Judy Casperson TD Bank |
Ron Roy Children's Author |
| Bonnie Gauthier CEO, Hebrew Health Care |
Robert Slifka Community Leader |
| Carol McCabe, Secretary Community Leader |
- Our Mission
- Playhouse Theatre Group Inc., at Playhouse on Park is dedicated to the following purposes:
- TO provide quality entertainment at affordable costs to as broad an audience as possible
- TO embrace and provide opportunity for professional, emerging and community artists
- TO offer educational and outreach opportunities through visiting and/or resident artists and educators
- TO create and/or explore opportunities to collaborate with other existing arts organizations
- TO be fiscally responsible and accountable at all times
- TO continue to be an integral member of the West Hartford community