Jeanne (she/her) fulfills the functions of both Artistic and Executive Director, including creative direction and vision for all educational and artistic activities, organizational management, and staff supervision.  She collaborates with staff on operations and marketing and liaises with the board on partnership development, finances, budgeting, fundraising, and strategic planning. 

Director for Shakespeare Troupe in the summer, she also directs and teaches year-round classes.  In her 34-year teaching career, Jeanne has taught for The Folger Shakespeare Library, Catholic University, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Loyola University (MD), Chapin School (NYC) and Interlochen Center for the Arts (MI), where she directed the Shakespeare program.  Jeanne has worked in camping for 35 years, directed two other camps, and is a certified Camp Director (American Camp Association) and Instructor with the American Red Cross.

Often doubling as choreographer and sound designer, Jeanne has directed well over a hundred theatrical productions.  Recent productions include Hecuba (Kenneth McLeish’s translation from Euripides), Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, Antigone by Jean Anouilh (based on the Sophocles), Dust by Sarah Daniels, and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor and Merchant of Venice.  An expert in Commedia dell'Arte and physical training for actors, Jeanne has presented workshops at the National Conference of the American Alliance for Theater & Education.  She holds an MA in Theater from University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Directing from Catholic University. 

She has served as a judge for the English Speaking Union’s Shakespeare competition and for theatrewashington’s Helen Hayes Awards.  She has served as a panelist for Virginia’s Commission for the Arts (IV-A) and Maryland’s Council for the Arts and Humanities.  Her lesson plans are published in The American Girls Collection, a Teacher’s Guide.  Selected as one of the ARTSFAIRFAX’s three 2015 Middle School Artists-in-Residence, she also received the ARTSFAIRFAX’s 2016 Strauss Artist Award for her distinctive fusing of physical and classical theatre. 

In collaboration with the Producing Artistic Director, Robin (she/her) manages financial reporting to the board and funders, fundraising and grants, payroll, bookkeeping, and operations.  Robin has worked in arts and nonprofit management for over 18 years.  She served on the board of the Herndon Foundation for the Cultural Arts from 2005-2015 and managed ArtSpace Herndon on a volunteer basis from the arts center’s launch in 2008 through 2012. 

With a BA in Public Policy and Political Science from Duke University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Robin’s professional experience is in banking, marketing, strategic planning, and finance.  In 2013, Robin was honored as one of three Women in the Arts by the Council for the Arts of Herndon and was recognized by the Town of Herndon with a Distinguished Service Award.  She completed the Leadership Fairfax Lifetime Leadership Program in 2015.  She has worked for Traveling Players since 2015.  She has served on the Arts Education and the Teaching Artist Rooster Panel for the Virginia Commission for the Arts. 

Morgan (she/her) has worked in arts administration for the past six years, with a focus in marketing and sales, including with Signature Theatre’s box office in Arlington Virginia.  She holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Mary Washington with a concentration in Directing.  

Morgan joined the Traveling Players community in 2007 as a student in the Thespian Ensemble, where she currently helms it as our lead director.  Recent Traveling Players directing credits include The Odyssey by Gregory A. Falls & Kurt Beattie, The Blue Monster by Carlo Gozzi adapted by Nathan Weinberger and Toby Mulford, PUFFS by Matt Cox and The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke, adapted to the stage by James DeVita.  Previously, she served as our Assistant Director on The Learned Ladies, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Tartuffe, Rumpelstiltskin, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Morgan also designs and constructs props for Traveling Players productions.

Other artistic work includes directing Mojo at Studio 115, working as the Assistant to the Director for The Country Wife at the University of Mary Washington and Assistant to the Director for Smile Lines at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia.  Morgan has also worked as Designer on productions such as Arachnophobia at George Mason University (puppets) and Mindset: A Surrealist Rock Opera with Off the Wall Productions at the DC Capitol Fringe Festival (costumes).

Emma (she/they) started with Traveling Players during the summer of 2019.  She now works full-time year-round as Program Manager in addition to her artistic work.  Recent Directing credits include Eros & Psyche, Alice in Wonderland, Persephone, Heracles, Ariadne’s Thread, Atalanta and Pandora’s Fire.  She also teaches Improv classes and is lead teacher for our Girl Scout theatre badge programs.  Previously, Emma was assistant director for Green Bird, Commedia Christmas Carol, The King Stag, The Blue Monster, Ariadne’s Thread, Pandora’s Fire.

She is a recent graduate of James Madison University, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Theatre.  During their time at JMU, they participated in several productions and workshops put on by Stratford Players, serving as both a Costume Designer (The Other Shore, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, The Feast) and an Actor (Bellwether, What You Will, Box and Cox).  They also served as an Assistant Costume Designer on JMU’s Mainstage (Contemporary Dance Concert, Fig Leaves and Open Letters). She served as the Treasurer, a Performer, and an Assistant Director for JMU’s Rocky Horror Club.