STUART ROGERS – Artistic Director and Founder
SARA SHAPLEY – General Manager and Graphic Designer
DOUGLAS LOWRY – Technical Director
ALYSSA DIAZ – Office Manager

STUART ROGERS – Artistic Director and Founder

Since founding Theatre Tribe in 1999, Stuart has directed a string of their hit plays including Paula Vogel’s, The Long Christmas Ride Home, for which he received the Ovation Award for best ‘Direction of a Play’, Craig Wright’s, Recent Tragic Events (LA Times Critic's Choice), The World Premiere of The Intern (LA Times Critic's Choice) and the West-Coast Premieres of two Lanford Wilson plays: Sympathetic Magic (LA Times Critic's Choice) and Book of Days. He won a Los Angeles Drama Critic's circle award for the latter.

Film directing credits include, Dirty Mary, the first film of The Film Wing. Dirty Mary has been accepted in over thirty film festivals nation-wide and won awards at more than twenty of them. Stuart is in post-production with two additional short films that her wrote and directed for The Film Wing as well.

He has taught acting classes at the Theatre Tribe Studio Theatre for the last thirteen years. Presently, both current and former students are network and cable television series regulars, acting on Broadway and performing in big budget feature films. His students have won Emmys, Golden Globes and received Tony Award Nominations. Stuart has also taught classes at UCLA, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum and Chelsea Studios in Manhattan.

SARA SHAPLEY – General Manager and Graphic Designer

Sara graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A. in Theatre and has been a member of Theatre Tribe since 2000. She has performed in two productions at Tribe: Playwrights’ Festival and Cairo. Other acting credits include God of Vengeance, Games, The Threepenny Opera, Dogg’s Hamlet and I Never Saw Nother Butterly.

She was nominated for a 2002 ADA Award for ‘Best Sound Design’ and produced The Long Christmas Ride Home which was nominated for an Ovation Award for ‘Best Production’. As a graphic designer, she has designed and created dozens of printed materials and websites including this one.

DOUGLAS LOWRY – Technical Director

Douglas is a long time theatre rat and has been Tribe’s Technical Director for the past five years. As an actor, he most recently appeared in their award-winning production, The Long Christmas Ride Home. Doug is also the technical director for Marlborough High School in Hancock Park and works Downtown each summer at LA’s premier free concert venue, Grand Performances at California Plaza.

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