A. John Boulanger
Producing Artistic Director
A. John Boulanger is a recent graduate from Texas State University-San Marcos with his masters in playwriting. He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing.
His thesis project, House of Several Stories: a tragedy in two acts of nonsense, was winner of the 2009 National Student Playwriting Award given by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The Texas State production of his play was also invited to Washington, DC, to perform at the Kennedy Center in April 2009.
Also in 2009, Boulanger won the William Inge Directing Initiative from the William Inge Center for the Arts at the KC/ACTF Region VI Festival in Februrary. In April, he and his cast received an all-expense paid trip, with VIP status, for the week-long William Inge Festival in Independence, KS. His actors performed the award-winning scene inside the boyhood home of William Inge.
He also received an observership to the 2009 Sundance Theatre Lab at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute.
Boulanger's 2009 production of
HOSS garnered six (6) B. Iden Payne nominations, five (5) Austin Critics' Table nominations, and the David Mark Cohen New Play Award 2009.
Most recently, his orginal play
A Writer's Vision(s), which he also directed, delighted audiences at the 2011 FronteraFest Long Fringe. Excerpts from
Vision(s) also showed as part of the Short Fringe.
Boulanger is a member of the Dramatists' Guild, the Playwrights' Center, Austin ScriptWorks, aGLIFF, and a co-founder of Imagine That Productions.
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Jillan HanelProducing Costume Designer
Jillan Hanel is a graduate of Texas State University-San Marcos, where she studied under internationally renowned costume designer Sheila Hargett.
Jillan has designed the costumes for several university productions including Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors, and Blood Wedding. She has acted as costume shop manager for Texas State, as well as the Emily Ann Theatre's Shakespeare Under the Stars summer program.
In 2009, Jillan wowed audiences with her costumes for Imagine That's inaugural production, House of Several Stories, and again in 2011 on the FronteraFest stand-out production of A Writer's Vision(s), for which she was nominated for an Austin Critics' Table Award.
Jillan most recently designed Zilker Theatre Productions summer musical, Footloose. Jillan has also designer for Meet Me in St. Louis and City of Angels at the San Pedro Playhouse and Lend Me a Tenor at the Sheldon Vexler Theatre in San Antonio. Other design credits include The Boys Next Door, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, and Romeo and Juliet.
She is currently designing costumes on Imagine That's summer premiere of Down the Drain.
Victoria Alvarez
Publicity Director
Victoria Alvarez received her Masters of Arts in Directing from Texas State University and her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
Her directing credits include Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Boy Gets Girl, and The Wizard of Oz. She also served as Assistant Director for Original Theatre Company's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told.
Victoria was last seen on stage in Teatro Vivo's production of Petra's Pecado.
Kasey Korth
Dramaturg at Large
Kasey Korth is a graduate from Texas State University-San Marcos where she earned her Master of Arts degree in Theatre History and Criticism. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dramatic Media and History from Texas Lutheran University in May of 2006.
Kasey has presented research at the William Inge Theatre Festival (2008), The Hawaii International Conference in the Arts and Humanities (2009), and the Texas State Graduate Student Symposium (2009).
Her master’s thesis involved dramaturgy for Texas State’s fall 2008 production of The House of Blue Leaves, directed by Jay Jennings. She served as dramaturg on IT's 2009 production of House of Several Stories.
Kasey is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and the Theatre Communications Group.