Theater Management

Editorial Board

Emika Abe
was most recently the Managing Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre. She came to Woolly after three years as the Associate Managing Director of the Alliance Theatre, the largest regional theatre in the Southeast. Emika is on the Advisory Board of Found Stages, served as Mentorship Co-Chair of LORT’s EDI Initiative, and she is an alum of Theatre Communications Group’s Young Leaders of Color. Emika holds an MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama, an MBA from Yale School of Management, and a BA in Theater from UCLA.

James Bundy
(M.F.A. ’95), Dean of David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. Previously he held leadership positions at the Great Lakes Theater Festival, Cornerstone Theater Company, and The Acting Company.

Joan Channick
(M.F.A. ’89), Chair and Professor in the Practice of Theater Management at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Previously she held leadership positions at the Long Wharf Theatre, Theatre Communications Group, and Center Stage, and was a securities litigator with the Boston law firm of Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett.

Hannah Grannemann
(M.F.A./M.B.A. ’08), Director and Assistant Professor of Arts Administration at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Previous management positions include Executive Director of Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Managing Director of PlayMakers Repertory Company.

Jane Jung
(M.F.A. ’10), Managing Director of Ping Chong + Company. Previously held management positions at The Civilians, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Leveraging Investments in Creativity, and New England Foundation for the Arts.

Reynaldi Lindner Lolong
(M.F.A. ‘13), is the Director of Individual Giving for Sesame Workshop, the non-profit behind the TV show Sesame Street. Prior to that he was at The Public Theater for eight years, where he held a variety of roles in marketing and development and created the organization’s first digital engagement department.

David J. Roberts
(M.F.A. ’08), is the Executive Director of 651 ARTS. He is also a co-founder of the Artists’ Anti-Racism Coalition—a grassroots effort to help the Off-Broadway community dismantle systems of exclusion and oppression. Previous management positions include Executive Director of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) and Managing Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem.

Sergi Torres
(M.F.A. ’09), Communication Officer at the European Commission. Previous management positions include Director of Communications at the National Arts Museum of Catalonia, and Assistant to the Cultural Attaché in the Spanish Embassy in London.

Sarah Williams
is the Arts Program Officer for the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Sarah is passionate about ensuring the Bay Area remains a place where artists can thrive and, in her role, supports program delivery, grantmaking strategy and evaluation for the Arts Program. Prior to joining the Foundation, Sarah worked as an arts administrator and consultant and has more than 15 years of experience working with nonprofit arts organizations. She was most recently the Managing Director for California Shakespeare Theater (Cal Shakes) where she oversaw the administration and operations of the organization, including guiding it through the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to Cal Shakes, Sarah served as the Associate Managing Director at Berkeley Repertory Theater (Berkeley Rep) where she produced special events and initiatives and managed the administrative operations for The Ground Floor, Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work. Sarah has also held positions with Tom O’Connor Consulting Group, Yale Repertory Theater, Huntington Theater Company and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Sarah serves on the board of Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco. She holds an MFA from David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where she was the recipient of the Morris J. Kaplan prize for recognition in theater management. She earned a B.A. from Boston College.

Leandro A. Zaneti
(M.F.A. ‘19), is a Consultant at ALJP Consulting. He is a Brazilian-American creative producer focused on developing and producing live performance by and for people of color. He is a co-founder of Codify Art, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist collective foregrounding the work of queer and trans artists of color. He has previously worked with The Public Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, The New Group, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Capacity Interactive, a digital marketing consulting firm for the arts.