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Sarah Darnsteadt - Production Manager Send Sarah e-mail

Tami Gebhardt
Attended Rutgers University where she participated in various Theatre Arts productions, both on and off stage, while earning her Accounting degree. She recently stage managed Curing Ron & Nice Guys Finish…. She also recently performed in Radioactive Republicans & Dancing Democrats during the Halloween Spotlight On Fest. She is happy to have the opportunity to work with Mario & Jonathan again on The Magnificent Mr. Vincent and enthusiastically returns to theatre after three long years in the corporate world.

Liza Hataf - Production Manager
graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Technical Theatre.  This is Liza's debut as director, but has stage managed various plays with many different companies.  Selected NY stage management credits:  A Midsummer Night's Dream (Boomerang Theatre Company), The Curate Shakespeare's As You Like It and Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love , (Oberon Theatre Ensemble), Leyendas , (Cuchipinoy Productions).  Liza is also currently stage managing George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart for Theater Ten Ten, opening this February.
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Allison Lepelletier - Head Designer
holds a B.S. in Architecture and a minor in Theatre Arts from NJIT.  While there, she was Managing Assistant for the Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Arts Program.  Throughout the years, her favorite roles include playing Ronette in Little Shop of Horrors , Mrs X in The Stronger , Magpie in Black Elk Speaks , Horatio in Hamlet II , and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream , in which she made her NYC debut this past summer in Central Park .  She was most recently the Costume Designer for Oberon Theatre Ensemble's NYC production of The Years . Allison is an accomplished singer, dancer, and fencer, a former 6-year member of the improv troupe The Imps, and studies mime at The School for Mime Theatre in Ohio .  Currently, she is the Head Designer for Cuchipinoy Productions, a staff writer for the music site, Required Listening, and works as an architectural draftsman.


Gabriel Martinez - Assistant Production Manager
Gabriel Martinez graduated from Rutgers University where he majored in theater. While at Rutgers Gabriel took on such roles as G/Zues In Polaroid Stories, Rosencrantz In Hamlet 2, And Father/Harlequin in As Five Years Pass. Gabriel has also worked off Broadway in the Spotlight on Halloween Festival, The Green Dragon, and The strawberry one Act festival





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Anna Payumo - Director of Development
Anna Payumo graduated with a B.S. in Marketing from Rutgers University, where she minored in Theater Arts. During her academic career, she has performed in numerous plays, including “Antigone,” “Twelve Angry Women,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “South Pacific,” “Pippin,” “Tender Offer,” and “As Five Years Pass.” Anna performed “My Vagina Was My Village” in the Vagina Monologues for the V-Day Hoboken production. She played Lissa in “Sex,” which was part of the Women Vs. Men production during the Spotlight On Next Great American Playwright Festival, as well as Rain Delay: A night of one-acts. She played Amber Gordon in “Capsule” during the Strawberry One-Act Festival. Her most recent work includes the model in “Top Model” and Courtney in “Every Night is Girls Night Out” for Twelve Angry Women: Sexy, Sassy Tales of Furious Females and Desperate Housewives.
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Lillian Ribiero - Director of Marketing
Lillian holds a BS in Marketing and Theatre Arts from Rutgers University. She is the founder of the performance aspect of _gaia and the Director of Marketing for Cuchipinoy, a theatre company based out of New York City.

Recently Lillian directed Eric Alter's Rewind which entered the Semi-Finals in The Strawberry One-Act Festival in New York, co-directed Who Am I at the Abingdon Theatre, part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York City and brought together locally recognized dance and theatre performers at the 2003 Jersey City Studio Artist tour.

Lillian has performed as Bee Bee in Suburbia, Claire in The Oak Table, Eurydice in Polaroid Stories, Olympia in The Conduct of Life, Amy in After You, Maskerade, Path of Excess, Silhouette, Man Switch Mind Switch and Leyendas. 

She organized V-Day Hoboken 2004 & 2005 as part of the V-Day Worldwide Campaign to help raise money and awareness to stop violence against women and girls through a (SOLD OUT) benefit performance of the Eve Ensler's Obie Award winning play, The Vagina Monologues at Maxwell's in Hoboken .
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Genevieve Tocano - Assistant Director of Marketing

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