Our Theater Masters Team
Julia Hansen
Founder/Artistic Advisor
Founder/Artistic Advisor
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Julia, while president of the Drama League of New York, conceived, and administrated The Directors Project, a national training program for young directors. Board services includes: The Acting Company, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, the Lincoln Center Theatre, and the Advisory Board for Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, FL. She is proud to have a directing award in her name that has been given to such luminaries as Mike Nichols, Jack O’Brien, Dan Sullivan, Des McAnuff and Michael Mayer, an alumnus of the directing program she started and Tony winner for Spring Awakening. She has created performances honoring celebrities such as Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hal Prince, Liz Smith and John Kander and Fred Ebb.
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Daisy Walker
Executive Artistic Director
Executive Artistic Director
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Daisy has directed around the country from San Diego to NYC, at theatres such as The Guthrie Theater Lab, La Jolla Playhouse, Keen Company, Classic Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Group, New Georges, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Payomet PAC, Adirondack Theatre Festival, and others. She has directed new work by artists such as David Auburn, Kristoffer Diaz, Julia Jordan, Duncan Sheik, Eric Lane, Kevin Rice, Courtney Baron, and Melanie Marnich. Previously, she was an Assistant Director on Jersey Boys on the Broadway, National Tour, and Regional productions, and served as an Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company. Other Broadway Assistant Directing credits include Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention, Dracula - The Musical, and Sinatra, His Music, His World, His Way at Radio City Music Hall. A Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop. Affiliated Artist New Georges. 2005 Recipient of SSDC Sir John Gielgud Fellowship. MFA from UCSD. Member of LPTW.
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Victoria Hansen
Co-Artistic Director
Co-Artistic Director
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Victoria is a native New Yorker with a lifetime interest in the arts (at age ten she danced at Lincoln Center in The Nutcracker with the New York City Ballet.) After graduating from Dartmouth College, she worked for many years as the Director of Development for the Broadway theater production company Kardana (Guys & Dolls, The Who’s Tommy, and How to Succeed in Business).
In 2003, she opened her own bespoke clothing business, Dayton Designs. She is currently a photographer represented by Gráficas Gallery in Nantucket, MA. She also serves on the Hood Museum Board of Advisors at Dartmouth College. |
Emily Dzioba
Artistic Administrator
Artistic Administrator
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Emily (she/her/hers) is a new play + audience engagement dramaturg, arts administrator, and educator based in New Jersey. Artistic homes include The New Jersey Play Lab; George Street Playhouse; Tectonic Theater Project and the Moment Work Institute; Keen Company; the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; and the Writers Theatre of New Jersey. Along with new play development, she specializes in the research and development of devised and ensemble generated work. Emily is an Associate Dramaturg with the New Jersey Play Lab and the Managing Director of The Strides Collective, as well as a reader for She NYC Arts, the Playwrights Foundation/ Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, and Campfire Theatre Festival. She also produces an interview and story-based podcast. Emily is a proud member of LMDA and ATHE. BA, Drew University. Her website can be explored here.
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Emily Zemba
Teaching Artist/Special Projects
Teaching Artist/Special Projects
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Emily is a New York based playwright, artistic producer, and an alumna of Theater Masters’ National MFA Playwrights Festival. Her work has been seen and developed with LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Local Theater, The Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Poland, ANT Fest at Ars Nova, Exquisite Corpse Company, Williamstown Theater Festival's Professional Training Company, Dixon Place, and the Yale Cabaret. She has performed in new experimental works as part of St. Ann's Warehouse Puppet Lab, the Voice 4 Vision Festival, and Puppet BloK at Dixon Place. Emily is an Affiliated Writer with The Playwrights Center, affiliated artist with New Georges, co-founder of The Party Line, and founding member of Middle Voice at Rattlestick. She holds an MFA in playwriting from Yale School of Drama (2015), and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. | emilyzemba.com
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NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
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Robert Moss
Brian Murray Jack O’Brien Neil Pepe |
Theresa Rebeck
John Rando Tim Sanford |
AR Gurney, emeritus (1930-2017)
Gordon Davidson emeritus (1933-2016)
Gordon Davidson emeritus (1933-2016)
Theater Masters Board
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Leyla Bader
Susan Buckley Danielle Chock Nancy Dunlap Julia Hansen Victoria Hansen Gerri Karetsky Marianne Lubar |
Amy Rose Marsh
Naomi McDougall Jones Sofia Milonas Virginia Pearce Jessica Salet Nancy Stevens Charlotte Tripplehorn Daisy Walker |
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National MFA Playwright Adjudicators
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David Auburn & Craig Lucas (2020)
Craig Lucas (2019) David Auburn (2018) Abe Koogler (2017) |
Alexander Maggio (2016)
Kathleen Chalfant (2015) Robert LuPone (2014) Theresa Rebeck (2013) A.R. Gurney (2012) |
Eric Bogosian (2011)
Lanford Wilson (2010) Gordon Davidson (2009) John Lithgow (2008) John Guare (2007) |
Alfred Uhry (2006)
Christopher Durang (2005) Terrence McNally (2004) William Luce (2003) |
