Meet The Team

Lenore Skomal is a theatre-maker, playwright and book author of over 20 books and published plays. She is the sole proprietor of Lenore M Skomal Productions, LLC, which produces her plays and Broadway Bound Theatre Festival (BBTF). In addition to BBTF, she produced her Off Broadway comedy THE EXES (2019) and BLUFF at Hudson Guild (2016), both licensed plays with current productions in community and regional theatres. THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S DAUGHTER, her first book, has been licensed by LA-based Little Warriors Productions. She has also co-produced BLEED LIKE ME, a feature-length film released in 2024. A proud member of the Dramatist Guild, Commercial Theatre Institute, Off Broadway Alliance, Theater Communications Group, the National Newspaper Columnists Association, Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), Lenore is dedicated to empowering self-producing artists  www.lenoreskomal.org

Rick Sayers is a theatre producer and former newspaper publisher and editor as well as co-founder of Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, with over 50 years in the newspaper and communications industry. As a former editor of the Erie Times-News, publisher of the Connecticut Post, The National Sports Daily, Detroit News, and Boston Herald, he is a skilled manager at heart. Rick brings a passion to working with theatre professionals, especially playwrights, helping them develop their skills and hone their abilities to produce their own works with confidence and little stress. His motto: Even though we're in the drama business, we don't need drama in our business.

Sarah Schetter is an entertainment professional with over 20 years experience spanning live performance, film, events, photography, and education. Originally from rural Ohio, she has called New York City her home since 2002, after completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatrical Production from Ithaca College. Sarah has benefitted from the practice of taking on a diverse range of positions and responsibilities throughout her career. She possesses the flexibility to adapt and thrive as a collaborator from the early stages of project development to the execution of the culminating event. Recent credits include Technical Director for Dracula: A Comedy of Terror, The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, Heartbeat Opera’s Eugene Onegin & Extinctionist, and Production Manager for Winesday: The Wine Tasting Musical, Cellino v Barnes, and A Guide for the Homesick. For more, please visit sarahschetter.com.

Kimberly O'Loughlin She/Her (Sound Designer and Coordinator)Kimberly is a queer transfeminine, award-winning Sound Designer and Composer from NYC. She has taught Theatrical Sound Design and Engineering at Montclair State University for the last three years in addition to her freelance career. She is a veteran of many festivals including NYMF, RAVE, and BBTF. She holds resident Sound Design positions at The Barnstormers Theatre in Tamworth, NH; and The Argyle Theater in Babylon, NY.  Favorite Credits from NYC and Regional theaters include: Jersey Boys (Argyle Theater), Misconceptions (Blessed Unrest) Two By Synge (Irish Rep), While You Were Partying (SoHo Rep) Leaving Eden & Overture (NYMF 2019), Clue (Oregon Cab) I Am My Own Wife (Long Wharf), Fully Committed; Into the Woods; Popcorn Falls (The Barnstormers), Till (ATG) www.oloughlinsound.com

Chris Phillips is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director. His plays have been seen on both coasts in venues such as Celebration Theatre, SoHo Playhouse and the Cherry Lane Theater, receiving two GLAAD Media Award nominations, winning the award for Overall Excellence in Playwriting at the New York International Fringe Festival, and receiving a grant from the Robert Chesley Foundation, which supports LGBTQ playwrights.  After moving from L.A. to New York City and back again, shifting his focus to film & TV, he directed 7 short films – 4 from his own scripts – screening at festivals such as Outfest Los Angeles and the California Independent Film Festival, where he won Best Director of a Short, and the Austin After Dark Film Festival, where his short won Best Drama. Chris was a Top 50 semi-finalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, a finalist for the Warner Bros. TV Writers Workshop, a semi-finalist for the NBC Universal Emerging Writers Fellowship, and a finalist for both the WB TV Pilot award and the Josephson Entertainment Fellowship at the Austin Film Festival. His first feature-length film, BLEED LIKE ME, is on the festival circuit.

Noel MacDuffie is a director drawn to stories that help us grapple with our challenging lives. His work has been presented at numerous venues across New York City and has been included in two recent Broadway Bound Festivals. Noel has served as President of the
Board at Heights Players and currently as Member at Large at Gallery Players. Noel holds an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College. noelmacduffie.com

David O’Brien is an MFA student at Columbia University studying Theatre Management & Producing. His work as a producer includes Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (New

World Stages); Heard You Were Leaving, The Bridge, The Arrangement (Columbia University School of the Arts); 18 (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival at The Vineyard’s Dimson Theatre). He has interned with The Nederlander Organization and serves as Associate Artistic Director of The Savin Rock Theatre Company.

Aaron Benham is an award-winning music director, conductor, and composer. National Tour: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, An American in Paris. Off-Broadway: The Book of Merman. Regional: It's All Your Fault, Tyler Price, LA; Transcendence Theatre Co., Sonoma; Montana Shakespeare in the Parks; Porchlight Music Theater, Chicago; Chicago Opera Theater; Second City. Film: Bleed Like Me, Producer & Original Score. BFA Emerson College.

Fred Rohan-Vargas is the author of several plays and musicals produced throughout the country and abroad. He holds an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University and founded Mixing It Up Productions, LLC, a multi-media entertainment company. He has co-produced the Off-Broadway musical Money Talks and was an Associate Producer for the Off-West End production of Flowers for Mrs Harris in London. He has also participated as a Broadway investor in the shows The Lightning Thief, Parade the Musical, Flowers for Mrs Harris, and the touring of Company. Fred is an eclectic songwriter and composer whose music is currently heard throughout Southeast Asia. He is a member of BMI Engel Lehman Musical Theatre Workshop and Dramatists Guild and serves on the advisory board of Ripple Effect Artists Inc. 

Theatre Reviews Limited was originally launched in 1997 as one of the first online websites dedicated to reviewing Broadway, Off and Off-Off Broadway, Cabaret, and Theatre Festivals in New York City. We are excited to share this re-launch of this important site with you. David brings his experience as an English Literature, Playwriting and Composition teacher to assess the structure and literary value of a performance. Joseph brings over 30 years of experience in theater, film and television and will focus more on the performance and entertainment aspect of the production. These two viewpoints will hopefully give the reader a better overall look and understanding of the content and execution of the new work.

Together they founded and created a professional theater company operating under the Equity Small Professional Theater Contract. Serving as Executive and Artistic Directors they produced more than 70 productions including drama, musicals, revues, and new works. The company also played host to The New Dance Series which featured noted choreographers in the medium of combining dance with spoken word.

Dori A. Robinson Associate Directing: Huntington Theatre: Leopoldstadt (co-production, Shakespeare Theatre Company), The Band’s Visit (co-production, Speakeasy Stage), Prayer for the French Republic. Directing: Silent Sky (IRNE Award, Best Production), Julius Caesar, Peter and the Starcatcher, Fully Committed, Educating Rita, A Bright Room Called Day, A Bintel Brief, Tales of Chelm. Dori’s original plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Boston, most recently The Elm Tree with her company,  Alight Theater Guild. Dori shares her love of Shakespeare, new works, puppetry, and gender in performance with theatres and universities throughout Boston. Education: New York University. 

 www.dorirobinson.com

Emma Goldman-Sherman is the Resident Dramaturg at the 29th Street Playwrights Collective, and she runs the Write Now Workshop, a weekly space for play development. She also works for the Great Plains Theatre Conference and teaches playwriting and poetry/spoken word to adults and at-risk youth via New York Writers Workshop. Recent plays include FUCKT, Whorticulture, Hare Today for #Every28Hours, and Traffick directed by Caitlin Wees for the 1MPF at the New Ohio. Named a Risky Playwright by Cutting Ball Theatre in 2014 and 2015, Counting in Sha’ab, directed by Erin Gilley, was produced by Golden Thread as part of the 2015 ReOrient Festival of plays about the Middle East. Previous work was produced in NYC at Manhattan Theatre Source, Circle Rep Lab, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New Georges, The Women's Project; E.S.T.'s LA Project, regionally and in London and Zagreb.  She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, LPWT and NYWW. MFA: UI. Emma is the recipient of the "the Jane Chambers Award, as well as the Richard Maibaum Award. Her play Abraham's Daughters was part of the Lady Liberty Festival to combat Islamophobia at Urban Stages and part of the first Intersections International Play Reading Series. www.29thstreetplaywrightscollective.org