STAFF AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
THE STAFF
Steve Cosson - Artistic Director Steve Cosson is a director, writer and Artistic Director of The Civilians. Recently, Jill Sobule’s musical Times Square; the new children’s musical The Abominables, (writer/director, songs by Michael Friedman) at Children’s Theater Company; writer/director of The Undertaking (59E59, BAM Next Wave, Theatre de la Ville, Paris, US Tour); José Rivera’s Another Word for Beauty (Goodman Theatre); Rimbaud in New York (BAM); Michael Friedman and Bess Wohl’s Pretty Filthy; the Off-Broadway revival of The Belle of Amherst starring Joely Richardson; The Great Immensity (The Public Theater, Kansas City Rep); Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Playwrights Horizons, Woolly Mammoth); This Beautiful City (Vineyard, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Humana Festival and others); Ethel’s Documerica (BAM Next Wave) and many others. With The Civilians he created several works as the first theater company in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.stevecosson.com @stevecosson
Margaret Moll - Managing Director Margaret joined The Civilians in 2017 following a term as the Managing Director for The Anna Deavere Smith Pipeline Project, which centerpiece is the critically acclaimed play Notes From The Field. Before that Margaret was the Productions Director for Assembly Theatre in the U.K. And was responsible for producing and touring Yael Farber's NIRBHAYA, a testimonial play about gender based violence that played to critical acclaim and sell out houses in New York, London, Delhi, Mumbai, Dublin, Toronto, and Vancouver. Select producing credits include Simon Callow in Juvenalia (Edinburgh 2014), Mies Julie (London 2013), The Pajama Men (London 2013), Casus: Knee Deep (London 2013) and 14 years with Ross Petty Productions (Toronto). From 2009 - 2013 Margaret was the General Manager for Assembly Theatre, a premiere venue at the Edinburgh Fringe. - margaret@thecivilians.org
Melissa Hardy - New Work Program Manager - melissa@thecivilians.org
Phoebe Corde - Resident Dramaturg
The Board Of Directors
Alain Groenendaal - Chair
Suany Chough - Secretary
John Wood - Treasurer
Steve Cosson - Artistic Director
Rebecca Agbe-Davies
Michael Abrahams
Jane Brandman
Jennifer Copaken
Henry Donahue
Michael Frazier
Jeanhee Kim
Julia Lazurus
Margenett Moore-Roberts
Jennifer Morris
Armen Nercessian
Justus O'Brien
Kerry Smith
Laurie Stempler
Alicia Villarosa
Emeritus
Elizabeth Angell
Rick Dean
Jessica Harris
Jody Falco
Peter Friedland
Daniel P. Kim
David Singer
In Memoriam
Michael Friedman
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