Company                                             

Founder/Producing Artistic Director                             Tricia McDermott 

Literary Manager                                                              Elizabeth Bojzsa

Institutional Development Consultant                          Ellen Mittenthal

Artists Circle                                                                       Richie Allen, Michael Schwendemann, Antoine Jones, Dominick DeGaetano,
                                                                                             Cassie Pressimone Beckworth, Jenna Lyons, Tymberley Wittrig, Roya Shanks

Board

Tricia McDermott, President

Joseph DeVincent, Islip Planning Board

Mary Guzzy, Director of Theatre, Corning Community College, Director 

 

Advisory Council
Florida

Woody (Linwood Michael) Helfand, Patrice & Associates

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New York

Rick Berube

Dorothy Cardi, Cardi Designs

Annmarie Kearney-Wood, Attorney at Law, Real Estate
 

 

Scholars Advisory Board

Dr. Sherry Engle, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Dr. Christine Catanzarite, University of Illinois, Champagne/Urbana

Dr. Susan Croft, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Dr. John Franceschina, Pennsylvania State University (retired)

Dr. Katherine E. Kelly, Texas A & M University
 

 

Tricia McDermott, Founder & Producing Artistic Director

Tricia is the founder and producing artistic director of the Airmid Theatre Company, a National Endowment for the Arts award-winning theatre. Throughout her career, Ms. McDermott has worked professionally in regional theatres, Off-Broadway, and internationally. Past experience includes executive director of the Shakespeare Globe Centre USA (founded by Sam Wanamaker to reconstruct Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London), and literary manager and educational outreach coordinator at the Off-Broadway theater company, Primary Stages. 

 

Tricia works as a freelance director, dramaturg, and arts consultant. Her directing experience has led her to work on both classic and contemporary plays. During her career, she has worked as a choreographer, and actor. Additional positions have included publicity manager, stage manager, systems administrator, box office manager, and tour and booking manager.  In 1996 in Illinois, she founded Doormouse Productions, a theatre company devoted to interactive outdoor theatre for young audiences.  The company, in partnership with the local parks and recreation department, taught classes in acting and creative drama for children ages 5 through 12, and performed company-conceived and written plays in repertory throughout the summer months. The company has continued to fill a void in the community and has become an ongoing and successful part of the Parks Department’s yearly programs.

 

Ms. McDermott is also a theatre educator having taught classes in directing, acting, movement, script analysis, theatre history and creative drama at such universities as Illinois State and SUNY Stony Brook Universities, as well as Marymount Manhattan and Dowling Colleges.  She has been artist-in-residence and guest director at Corning Community College in Corning, NY.  Tricia is a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society and the Co-VP of membership and executive board member for the League of Professional Theatre Women.  Tricia holds a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from Illinois State University and a B.A. in Theatre from Florida State University.

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