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Sonnet Repertory Theatre, Inc. PO Box 772 New York, NY 10108 Office: Box Office and Information: 212-560-2432
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Administration
- Todd Loyd | Artistic Director | todd@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Todd has worked on and off Broadway, wearing various hats from actor to producer and everything in between, including the Broadway productions of La Boheme, The Color Purple, and such festivals as NYMF and NAMT. Todd has worked at The Kennedy Center, The Eugene O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, Lincoln Center Institute, Cedar Lake Dance, PCPA Theaterfest, The Belt Theatre, among others. For SRT, Todd directed the sold-out workshop/production of ONE. Todd has been a teaching artist for the past fifteen years, working in public and private schools throughout the country. He is currently working with a child living with autism, his greatest job to date. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
- Tiffany Little Canfield | Artistic Director | tiffany@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Tiffany is a Casting Director at Telsey + Company in New York City. Her first project with Telsey + Company was casting Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La Boheme on Broadway. Some other credits include “Dan in Real Life,” a feature film starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche, “Across the Universe,” a musical feature directed by Julie Taymor, “Sex and the City” (both films), the ABC Pilot “Ugly Betty,” and many Broadway shows and commercials. As a director, Tiffany directed the workshop production of Keith Reddin’s Prophets of Nature and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for SRT. Tiffany has a BFA in Drama-Directing from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
- Katrina Kent | Executive Director & Founding Member | katrina@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Katrina, SRT’s current Executive Director, has been with Sonnet Rep since the company’s inception in 2002, previously serving as Director of Press and Marketing. As Executive Director, she is responsible for ongoing business aspects, as well as strategic program development and oversight. Separately, Katrina heads Corporate Conferences and Events for TD AMERITRADE, a prominant financial services company. She is responsible for the overall planning and implementation of all conferences, incentives, meetings and events, as well as event marketing initiatives for the company, producing upwards of 150 programs annually. A graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, Katrina is a co-founder of Sonnet Rep.
- Robyne Parrish | Founding Artistic Director & Associate Executive Director | robyne@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Robyne, SRT’s founder and current Associate Executive Director, has been with Sonnet Rep since the company’s inception in 2002, serving as Producing Artistic Director for the first five seasons. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, Robyne is currently finishing an MFA in Theatre and Pedegogy at Point Park Conservatory for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh, where she teaches drama. Active in performance, both locally and regionally (www.robyneparrish.com), Robyne is an advocate of continuing and life-long education in the theatre, having studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and around New York City. Robyne has worked in education and children’s theatre as a director, playwright and teacher and has been integral in theatre and music education initiatives in various schools and summer programs in up-state New York. In addition, she worked as musical director with Crossroads Diversity Program, an after school drama program for underprivileged youth in NYC and spent a year on staff as a teaching artist with Periwinkle National Theatre, directing acting programs in schools throughout New York City.
- Sharon Albert | Director, Development | sharon@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Sharon Albert, Ph.D. brings 25 years of experience in marketing and fundraising, having served various for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the development of strategic marketing and fundraising campaigns. She has worked for global organizations, and with her not-for-profit work was instrumental in developing a framework for the promotion and execution of public/private partnerships in order to fight the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Sharon’s passion for theatre spans her lifetime, and she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in theatre. Coupled with her doctorate in Social Work, Sharon hopes to promote theatre to reach global audiences with impactful messages.
- Julianna Jaffe | Director, Education | julianna@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Julianna, a native of Las Vegas, is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Ithaca College. She is a founder of a Portland, Oregon-based theatre company where she developed an educational division, Sight Educational Theatre, which tours Oregon and Washington States. Sight Educational Theatre is a multicultural children’s touring company which educates about bully prevention, water conservation, recycling, diversity, our ecological footprint and electrical safety. Sight tours to hundreds of schools a year and reaches approximately 250,000 kids annually. Julianna has also worked with youth in many “at-risk” facilities, focusing on the power of performance in art to transform the lives of kids on the edge.
- Sean Kent | Education Curriculum Development | sean.kent@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Sean is a writer and performer who began writing plays over a decade ago, and has since seen his work produced at multiple venues throughout New York City. In 2005, Sean’s first full length work, The Salacious Uncle Baldrick, was produced at fringeNYC, to much critical acclaim. He was also writer and content producer for the primetime re-launch of the CBS primetime game show Million Dollar Password and most recently served as contributor and associate editor of Arts America, an arts-themed national travel guide scheduled to be published by Huntington Press in the summer of 2009. As a graduate of the acting programs of both the Baltimore School for the Arts and the North Carolina School of the Arts, Sean has worked extensively as an actor in projects such as the feature film, School Ties, and the television series, Homicide: Life on the Street. He was also an original core member of SRT, and is a developer of the company’s educational outreach residencies.
- Sean Toole | Director, Finance and Board President | sean@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Sean, the most recent addition to Sonnet’s Board of Directors, brings a finance background to the company. Sean received an MBA with a finance concentration from Columbia and is currently an assistant vice president in Fortis Capital’s Global Export and Project Finance group, where he executes transactions in the energy, mining, and infrastructure sectors, primarily in emerging markets. Prior to joining Fortis, Sean was at Chevron, where he worked in finance, planning, and business development groups and at other energy companies where he worked in various capacities. Sean speaks fluent Russian, which he became proficient in while attending the Lunacharsky Institute in Moscow (GITIS) in theater criticism and working five years in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Board of Directors
- Sean Toole | President
- See biography above.
- Michael Kayne | Vice President
- A graduate of New York University, Michael is proud to serve as the Vice-President of Sonnet Rep’s Board of Directors. Michael spends his professional life as a private tutor for Advantage Testing, and his very unprofessional life spontaneously making up musicals with Baby Wants Candy and accomplishing the occasional mission with Improv Everywhere. As of January 2010, he was the reigning champion of the Upright Citizens Brigade’s BEATdown, a freestyle rap competition. Inexplicably, he has never lost a rap battle.
- Tiffany Little Canfield
- See biography above.
- Sarah Gardner
- Sarah Gardner was born and raised in New York City, where she attended public school, including the Bronx High School of Science. Sarah left the city to attend Vassar College, where she majored in English, earning Departmental Honors. She earned a law degree at Brooklyn Law School, where she was Managing Editor of the Law Review. Sarah spent 11 years working for Robert Morgenthau as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office, where she prosecuted homicides, sex crimes, domestic violence and other violent crimes. By far her greatest accomplishment has been raising her two wonderful children, ages 10 and 6, and being married to her great husband, Steve.
- Gretha Honsvald
- Gretha was introduced to SRT when her daughter was cast as Mustardseed in SRT’s 2008 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. After a 13-year career at Credit Suisse, a global investment bank, where she most recently served as a Director in the Equity Division, Gretha decided to stay home to raise her two daughters, Talli and Skyelar, with her husband Peter. Gretha served on the board of Central Synagogue of New York where she was head of the budget committee, and a member of the investment committee. She is a graduate of Duke University.
- Katrina Kent
- See biography above.
- Will & Julia Kohane
- William Kohane graduated from Duke Law School in 1988. He worked for two years as a real estate attorney before striking out on his own to help create Apple Core Hotels, which owns and operates five budget boutique hotels in NYC. Julia Kohane graduated from Fordham University and is an avid theatergoer and supporter of the arts in NYC. The Kohanes have invested in several Broadway and off-Broadway theater productions, most notably Passing Strange, which was recently filmed for a documentary directed by Spike Lee.
- Todd Loyd
- See biography above.
- Robyne Parrish
- See biography above.