MEET THE STAFF

Samantha Beedle

Community Liaison / Ensemble Member / MFA Faculty

Bekah Eichelberger

Fundraising Program Manager

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

General Manager / Ensemble Member / MFA Faculty

Christopher Shorr

Ensemble Member / MFA Faculty

Mary Wright

Education Director & Festival UnBound Director / Ensemble Member / 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
Diane Elliott, Esq., Vice President
Chris Hellstrom, Secretary
Joe Connell, Treasurer
Dean Donaher
James Jordan
Lisa Jordan
Beth Knickerbocker, Esq.
Michele Pappalardo

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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