MEET THE STAFF

Samantha Beedle

Community Liaison / Ensemble Member / MFA Faculty

Kiyaana Cox Jones

MFA Faculty

Bill George

Ensemble Emeritus

James P. Jordan

Artistic Director / Ensemble Member / MFA Faculty

Lisa Jordan

Managing Director / Ensemble Member / MFA Faculty

Matt Prideaux

Assistant Technical Director / Ensemble Member / MFA Faculty

Christopher Shorr

Ensemble Member / MFA Faculty

Kiera Wilhelm

Director of Development, Outreach, and Communications

Mary Wright

Education Director & Festival UnBound Director / Ensemble Member / MFA Faculty

Jan Cohen-Cruz

Ensemble Affiliate / MFA Faculty

Jason E.R. Hedrington

Ensemble Affiliate

Ashley Tait Weller

Ensemble Affiliate

MEET THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES & HONORARY COUNCIL


Board of Trustees

Ernie Thomas Stiegler, President
Michele Pappalardo, Vice President
Bekah Eichelberger, Secretary
Joe Connell, Treasurer
Dean Donaher
Diane Elliott, Esq.
James Jordan
Lisa Jordan
Alison O Connell

Honorary Council

Beall and Linny* Fowler
Ellen Baker-Ghelardi
Ruth Marcon
Mary Meilinger*
Joan Moran
Mrs. Katherine Merle-Smith Thomas*
Barbara Pearson*
Denise Stangl
Sharon Yoshida

* In Memoriam

ONCE UPON A TIME

It all started in the mid-1970’s…

Touchstone’s founding members were part of a series of improvisational bilingual street theatre troupes made up of professional artists, university students, local teachers and teens. These troupes brought an immediate and intimate form of theatre to area neighborhoods and parks in order to acknowledge, engage and celebrate low-income Latino and Anglo populations…

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