Who's Who at Centastage

Joe Antoun (Artistic Director and co-founder)
Joe has taught, written, and directed in the Boston area for the past ten years. His Centastage credits include writing Big Sky (It's About Cowboys and Things), directing Pictures at an Exhibition, The Parent Company, and writing and directing Back in Your Own Backyard and Phobias.

Centastage founders John Schumacher and Joe Antoun.

John Schumacher (Executive Director and co-founder)

A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, John has co-written Back In Your Own Backyard, Big Sky (it's about cowboys and things), Phobias, and One Is...The Other Isn't, all produced by Centastage. He has been a music teacher in the Hanover Public Schools for 22 years where he has produced, written and directed numerous original works. He lives in the Fenway with his wife Martha, 6 yr. old son, Hazen, and 2 yr. old daughter, Zoe.

Peter Brennan (board member)
Peter Brennan has been a director, stage manager, house manager and press agent and, as founder of PACT at the Perry Street Theatre in New York, produced sixty-seven new American plays between 1979 and 1989. He is a graduate of SUNY Purchase, and currently serves on the Board of the Theatre Museum of Boston. He is Director of Develpment at the Phoenix Media/Communications Group.

Ed Bullins (board member)
Ed Bullins is mainly known as a playwright. His The Taking of Miss Janie was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and Obie Award. His plays In New England Winter, The Fabulous Miss Marie, Street Sounds, and Clara's Ole Man have been awarded Obies, the Venice Bienniale, and the Vernon Rice Drama Desk awards respectively. He is a professor in the theatre department at Northeastern University. His newest play, 8 Minute Marathon, will premiere in Boston during the '99 Boston Marathon, and the Ed Bullins Retrospective--Three Plays, Three Readings and Two Panels will open at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on February 25, 1999, Harlem, New York.

Beth Grotto (Board member)
Beth has been a supporter of Centastage since it’s inception (subscriber, volunteer, donator, loyal fan). She is currently attending Boston College Law School and getting her Ph.D in education administration at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. In her free time Beth is a freelance French horn player and enjoys spending time with her three dogs – Killian, Guinness, and Bailey.

Board member Beth Grotto

Dean O'Donnell (Board member)
Dean is a playwright and the humble author of this web site. Centastage has produced four of his plays: "Legwork" (as part of The Boston Plays), Little Messages, The Last Daredevil, and For Want of a Name. His plays have been seen in New York, Boston, Hollywood, and around the country. He currently teaches at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the Theatre Technology Program where he is working on integrating virtual reality and performance.

Your humble author, Dean O'Donnellrd member Tom Vance

Sue Kilrain (board member)
Sue Kilrainis a consultant and an enthusiastic audience member. She has been on the Centastage Board since Season3.

Board member Sue Velleman

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