Artistic Director - Sheldon Epps

Playhouse Artistic Director, Sheldon Epps, has award-winning drama for television and the stage.  He's directed episodes of Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Friends.  Mr. Epps also conceived and directed the Duke Ellington musical Play On! on Broadway where it received three Tony Award nominations. His vision is to keep expanding the theatrical diversity the Playhouse embodies, provide venues for young artistic talent to flourish, and increase outreach programs for kids, at-risk youth and the community.

Stephen Eich, Executive Director

Stephen Eich is a producer, manager, teacher and director with 30 years experience in both the commercial and not-for-profit professional theatre. From 1979 to 1995, he was the Managing Director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company where he produced over 125 productions including the 1990 Tony Award-winning Best Play, The Grapes of Wrath. While there he oversaw the emergence of an internationally recognized award-winning theater, built a new $9.5 million dollar home for the company and secured the theater’s administrative future. He produced Steve Martin’s award-winning Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Steppenwolf before taking it to Los Angeles’ Westwood Playhouse, then to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and England. From 2000-2008, Mr. Eich was the Managing Director of The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. This year, he produced the critically acclaimed world premiere of Mark Roberts’ Rantoul and Die in Los Angeles with Don Foster, Executive Producer/writer of CBS’s “Two and a Half Men.” Stephen received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Science in Theater Education from Illinois State University.

Producing Director - Tom Ware

Board of Directors

Michele Engemann, Chairman
Sheila Grether-Marion, Vice Chairman

Linda Boyd Griffey, Secretary

David DiCristofaro, Treasurer

Carol Burnett

David Davis

Susan Dietz

Peggy Ebright

Patti Johns Eisenberg

Robert Goldberg

Bob Greenblatt

Sheila Grether-Marion

Ann Hamilton

George Handtmann III

Sue Haynie-Horn

Colin Hurren

Donna Lynn Leavy

D. Tad Lowrey

Dr. Rao Makineni

Sharon Muir

Dianne Philibosian, Ph. D.

Abel Ramirez

Kathy Arntzen Roat

Bingo Roncelli

Margaret Sedenquist

Lyn Spector

Elliot Stahler

Lilah Stangeland

Greg Stone

Jim Watterson

Lyla White

Scott Wilcott

Martha Williamson

Emeritus Board Members

Betty Ann Brooks

Ralph Hirschmann

Frank Kleeman

Albert Lowe

Dennis Lowe