JENI MAHONEY Artistic Director of Conference, co-Artistic Director of id Theatre Company
Formerly she was Associate Director of Mint Theater Company in New York (2002 Drama Desk Award, 2001 OBIE), Jeni's current project is her twenty-month-old daughter (and new boss) Noa. Her play The Feast of the Flying Cow…And Other Stories of War premiered in October at InterAct Theater in Philadelphia, and The Martyrdom of Washington Booth was presented at New York University's hotINK Festival in January. Her work has been presented at the National Playwrights Conference (O'Neill Theater Center), The MidWestern New Plays Festival, Lark Theater, Rattlestick Productions and the L.A. Theatre Center among others. You will find her work in Plays and Playwrights 2001 , Best Stage Monologues for Men 1999 , Best Stage Monologues for Women 1999 , Best Stage Scenes 1999 and Smith & Kraus' Audition Arsenal series of books. Jeni teaches playwriting in the BFA program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
SHEILA McDEVITT co-Artistic Director, id Theatre Company, Director of Playwrights Instensive & Actor
A native Idahoan, is co-founder and co-Artistic Director of id Theatre Company. She has produced, directed and acted in three seasons for id both in McCall and New York City, and produced, directed and acted in the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference for the past five years. She produced and acted in id's inaugural NYC reading series this past summer in conjunction with the Midtown International Theater Festival. Sheila was co-producer and star performer for Qwirk Productions in NYC for 8 years. She received her MFA from University of Washington's prestigious Professional Actor Training Program. Directing credits include Manhattan Class Company's "Summer Play Party," featuring plays written by New York City high school students. She also runs workshops in Stage Combat for High School and College students as well as Story Book theatre and improvisation workshops for younger children. Acting credits: Off-Broadway - Understudy to Miss Carol Kane in In-Betweens . Regional: New England tour - Dancing at Lughnasa ; Jupiter Theatre, Jupiter FL - Rumours co-starring Bernie Koppell, Bill Christopher, and Gary Burghoff.
PAULA A. MARCHIEL Managing Director & Company Management
Paula is happy to be back for her sixth season of Seven Devils and McCall. She is an active company member of Synaesthetic Theatre and Secretary of the Board. She is currently the Marketing Associate for Theatreworks/USA. Past work includes the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, New York University, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, the Really Useful Management Company and Stage Management jobs too numerous to mention. She is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
ED BAKER Production Manager & Actor
Ed earned his MFA Degree in Acting from Ohio University's Professional Actor Training Program in 1991. He worked regionally at The Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland Actors' Theatre, The Monomoy Theatre on Cape Cod, as well as 6 insane years performing in New York with the Cut And Paste Company and Others. In 1998 Ed returned to Wichita with his lovely wife, Danette Baker. Since then he has had the honor of performing in a special benefit production of Last Train To Nibroc for Wichita Summer Theatre with the most special Guest Star of his life, Danette. Ed recently joined the faculty of Wichita State University School of Performing Arts as an Assistant Professor of Technical Theatre.
TRACY SHAR Managing Producer
Tracy has worked at many theaters and performing arts organizations as a producer, actor and general manager throughout NYC and regionally, including the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, The Public Theater, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Surflight Theater and the Berkshire Theater Festival. She currently produces live music shows for the Whitney Museum and the Whitney Museum at Altria, and was recently seen as Puck in Fools in Love at BAM and the Manhattan Ensemble Theater as part of the Millennium Talent Group. She holds a BFA in acting from Emerson College and an MFA in acting from California Institute of the Arts, in addition to studying at the Moscow Art Theater and The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference is a presented by id Theatre Company, Sponsored by the Alpine Playhouse and made possible in part by contributions from the A.K. Starr Charitable Trust, Idaho Commission on the Arts & The National Endowment on the Arts.