Contact Us
Sonnet Repertory Theatre, Inc.
PO Box 772
New York, NY 10108
Office:
419 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003
Box Office and Information: 212-560-2432
Fax: 775-908-3729
Email: info@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
MySpace: myspace.com/sonnetrep
Administration
- Todd Loyd | Artistic Director | todd@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Todd is Co-Artistic Director of SRT. He joined the company a year after its inception, serving as the Artistic Director, Bard's Backyard, as well as the Director of Education and Outreach, and a member of the Board of Directors. Todd has worked on and off Broadway, wearing various hats from actor to producer and everything in between, including the Broadway production of La Boheme, and most recently, The Color Purple, and such festivals as NYMF and NAMT. As an actor or director, 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, Penguin Repertory Theatre, among others. He was also cast in Julie Taymor's upcoming feature film, Across the Universe. Todd has been a teaching artist for the past eleven years, working in public and private schools throughout the country with leading educators as mentors and collaborators. He is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
- Tiffany Little Canfield | Artistic Director | tiffany@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Tiffany Little Canfield 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. She has recently finished casting Dan in Real Life, a feature film starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche. Some other credits include Across the Universe, a musical feature directed by Julie Taymor that will be released in 2007, the ABC Pilot Ugly Betty, and many, many commercials. As a director, Tiffany directed the workshop production of Keith Reddin's Prophets of Nature for Sonnet Rep. Tiffany has a BFA in Drama-Directing from the North Carolina School of the Arts.
- Robyne Parrish | Executive Director & Founding Artistic Director | robyne@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Robyne, SRT's founder and current Executive Director, has been with Sonnet Rep since the company's inception in 2002, serving as Producing Artistic Director for the first five seasons. As Executive Director, she supervises all staff, oversees financial operation and personnel management, and works closely with Todd, Tiffany and Katrina, SRT's Artistic Collective, to foster artistic development within the company. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, Robyne is active in performance, both locally and regionally (www.robyneparrish.com), and is an advocate of continuing and life-long education in the theatre, having studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and around NYC at The Actors Centre, Stanislavski School at Harvard workshops, Tom Noonan, Sabella-Mills Associates, and VP Boyle. Robyne has worked in education and children's theatre as a director, playwright and teacher for over twenty years. She was founder of the TOTI theatre company for teens, a board member of the Act One Theatre Company (Columbia, SC), and integral in theatre and music education in various schools in up-state New York, currently as a teaching artist with Periwinkle National Theatre in Manhattan.
- Katrina Kent | Co-Founder and Director, Press & Marketing | katrina@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Katrina oversees the team that manages the areas of public relations, production of company and show collateral, website, newsletter, and other marketing functions. Separately, Katrina is Director, 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 sports 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.
- Wendy McClellan | Interim Director, New Play Development | wendy@sonnetrepertorytheatre.org
- Wendy has spent the last ten years working as a director and staff member in regional theatre, with a majority of her career focus in the development of new American plays. As a director, she has worked with a range of writers from Tony-nominated playwrights to emerging artists. She has held staff positions at Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Mark Taper Forum, A.S.K. Theater Projects and Actors Theatre of Louisville. She was also the Artistic Director of Oasis Theatre Company, the first company to bring Anne Bogart and the SITI Company to LA. She is currently a freelance director based in New York City . Her directing credits include: At Actors: world premieres of Neon Mirage (2006 Humana Festival, New York International Fringe Festival), Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular (2005 Humana Festival, New York International Fringe Festival), Goody Fucking Two Shoes (2005 Humana Festival), Fast and Loose (2004 Humana Festival), Trepidation Nation (2003 Humana Festival), as well as A Christmas Carol, Underneath the Lintel, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Balm in Gilead and Mad Forest. Los Angeles credits include world premieres of Gregory Gunter's Antigone. Tertiary. Sexxx. (2001 LA Weekly Award Nominee Best Comedy Direction); Leon Martell and Penka Kouneva's Steel: John Henry & the Shaker (2002 Ovation Award Nominee Best New Musical); Jennifer Maisel's Impenetrable; and Antonio Sacre's Up to the Sky (also PS 122, New York ). She recently directed the world premiere of Laurie Brooks' Brave No World at The Kennedy Center. She and long-time collaborator Jennifer Maisel were awarded the New York Coalition for Women in the Arts and Media's Collaboration Award 2006 for their upcoming production of the play Birds. Ms. McClellan is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts and a member of SSDC.
- Sean Toole | Director, Finance | 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.