Team
STAFF
John Baker (Artistic Director; Co-Founder)
Jonathan Kane (Producer; Co-Founder)
ADVISORY BOARD
John Bailey
David Cale (playwright; performer)
Carla Ching (playwright; former Artistic Director, 2g; founding member, The Kilroys)
Sandi Farkas (playwright; founder, PoNY Fellowship)
Joshua Harmon (playwright; Associate Artist, Roundabout Theatre Company)
Freddie Harris Ramsby (Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Bloomfield College of Montclair State University)
Grace Harvey
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (playwright; professor, Yale University)
Linda Jensen
Kathy Jones
Sarah Lunnie (dramaturg; Senior Dramaturg, The Public Theater)
Mark McAllister
Claudia McCain (AEA actor; arts advocate; Board President, Liberty Theatre Company; Founding Member, Ketchum Arts Commission)
Cathy Reinheimer
Jen Silverman (playwright; novelist; poet; screenwriter)
Denise Simone (actor; former Co-Artistic Director & founding member, Company of Fools)
Natasha Sinha (dramaturg; Associate Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons)
Lloyd Suh (playwright; member, Dramatists Guild Council; former Director of Artistic Programs, The Lark)
Les Waters (director; former Artistic Director, Actors Theatre of Louisville)
Kathy Wygle (Artistic Director, Laughing Stock Theater; former Executive Director, nexStage Theater)
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John Baker
Samuel D. Hunter (playwright; screenwriter; member, Dramatists Guild Council)
Jonathan Kane
Marcia Liebich
William Lowe
Kristin Poole
Bex Wilkinson
PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
The Argyros Performing Arts Center, is a high-tech performance and event facility designed to inspire and enrich artists, residents, and visitors from around the world. The Argyros operates year-round as both a state-of-the-art performing arts center and a private events venue.
The Community Library brings information, ideas, and individuals together to enhance the cultural life of central Idaho. It provides free access to a wide range of books and educational programs and resources. Founded in 1955 by seventeen women, the Library is a nonprofit organization funded by revenue from grants, donations, and the Gold Mine Thrift Store. Its work encompasses a public library, Center for Regional History, the Wood River Museum of History and Culture, and the historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House and Preserve, where it launched a writer-in-residence program in 2019.
“As a culture, we have a tendency to fetishize the starving artist, right? To romanticize the struggle. But I know a lot of different kinds of writers, from all over the world; heck, I’ve been a lots of different kinds of writers — and we ALL do our best work when we’re fed and cared for. When we feel safe enough to get vulnerable, and supported enough to take a free fall into some adventure.”
“To invite internationally celebrated playwrights to Wood River Valley to spend time in and respond to this place is such a gift. Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency not only supports theatre and contributes to the national dialogue, but it also provides a chance for our community to see and hear from some of the most important voices of our time. It is one of the many incredible cultural assets of this small Idaho town.”
Kristin Poole
“Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency provides the voices of the American Theatre a time and place to work at their craft. Sun Valley has always been a place of beauty and inspiration. When you couple these surroundings with the opportunity to reflect and create, amazing work is possible. As an actor, Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency has given me ‘pinch-me’ moments again and again. To be a part of the genesis of something new in theatre is an experience even more fleeting than an opening night, and even more powerful.”
David Janeski