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ANN CITRON
THEATRE ARTS DIRECTOR
Meira Blaustein
Executive Director, Woodstock Film Festival
Scott Cranin
Managing Director, TLA Entertainment Group
Denny Dillon
Actress
Sophia Raab Downs
Producer, Director
Susan Einhorn
Professor & Director, Queens College/CUNY Theatre Program
Charlie Kniceley
Musician
Melissa Leo
Actress
Wendy Lidell
President, International Film Circuit
Kim Wozencraft
Author
Mark Morganstern
Owner, Rosendale Café
Bruce Morrow
Disc Jockey
John Novi
Chef / Proprietor, Depuy Canal House
Ron Nyswaner
Screenwriter, Director
Mandy Patinkin
Actor, Singer
Aidan Quinn
Actor, Producer
Chris Silva
Executive Director, Bardavon Opera House
David Sterman
Financial Advisor
David Strathairn
Actor
Bill Vanaver
Founder / Artistic Director, The Vanaver Caravan
Livia Drapkin Vanaver
Founder / Artistic Director, The Vanaver Caravan
Susan Wallace
Senior Project Manager, Jonathan Rose Companies
Carrie Wykoff, Executive Director, was a founding board member of the Rosendale Theatre Collective (RTC). She served as Secretary then Vice President for over ten years. Carrie has served as Co-chair of the Operations Committee, The Fundraising Committee and has directed many productions and fundraisers at the theater. She is a professional event planner and has produced all types of events worldwide. Formerly Carrie was the Director of Operations, Advancement, and Events at High Meadow School. As a civic activist, she serves on the Rosendale Town Council, teaches at the Center for Creative Education in Kingston, and co-chairs the Rosendale Street Festival. Carrie founded Youth Arts! @ The Rosendale Theatre and co-founded The Cinemaniacs (the teen advisory board of the RTC.)
Justin Peone is the Technical Director of the Rosendale Theatre. He has worked professionally with computers for over 25 years, and has handled most of the technology needs of the Theatre since its purchase by the community. He is a computer specialist who has adapted to the changing digital media needs at the Theatre. He made it possible for Tony Caccio to continue to project after the transition to digital movies. He handles lighting, sound and streaming for live shows, sometimes all at once. If you have been to a live show produced by the Theatre, you have seen some of his work. He will be opening Rosendale Tech on Main Street in Rosendale shortly. He wants to help spread enthusiasm for technological change and adaptation, while furthering social connection and interaction. Technology can help bring people together, rather than isolate them.
Ann Citron, Theatre Arts Director, was the former Director of the Rosendale Theatre for the past ten years and one of its founding members. She is now pursuing her passion to bring a live theatre season to the Rosendale Theatre. Ann is a director, producer, and actor and has worked in theatres all over the Hudson Valley including County Players in Wappingers Fall, The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, SUNY at New Paltz Summer Repertory , Denizen Theatre in New Paltz and Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge. Ann directed and taught theatre arts for Stages in the Arts Youth Theatre in Kingston for 5 years, directing their musical productions. Ann has taught Improvisation for over 20 years in various Hudson Valley locations as well as NYU’s Clive Davis School of Performing Arts. Currently she teaches improvisation at Stepping Stone venue in Rosendale.
Patricia Piombino (aka Fre Atlast), founding member and President of the Theatre’s Board of Directors, is a musician, teaching artist, producer, and community activist. Fre was trained by Dr. Bernard Laffyette (himself a member of MLK’s inner circle and founding member of both CORE and SNCC) to practice and teach conflict resolution and promote peace, largely through music performances and participatory events. Fre, who is Queer identified, has been recognized both nationally and internationally for her drum circles that aim to empower Women, Elders, Native Americans and People of Color and support multi-generational community bonding.
Joel Elder is Secretary of the Board of Directors. He grew up in rural Northwest Missouri before venturing to the Hudson Valley to study food security and sustainability. He has worked in the field of value-added agriculture for the past 17 years with a focus on beverage alcohol production of New York State agricultural commodities. Joel is the father of three children and is married to “the most wonderful woman he has ever known.”
Jenna knew early on that she was destined for a career in journalism, not just from watching the Muppet News Flash, but because her parents were adamant consumers of all things public media. After learning the basics of the craft at Seton Hall University, she honed her story telling skills in public radio and public television. She currently can be seen weeknights on PBS member station Thirteen, hosting the nightly news magazine, MetroFocus and can be heard as a guest host on New York Public Radio, WNYC.
Estie Jacobs, CPA, serves as Treasurer of the Theatre Board. Co-Founder and active member of the Mid-Hudson Fuel Buying Coop she negotiates annually with local suppliers for discounted prices for coop members and works to promote energy conservation and the use of alternative energy. She also served as a volunteer for the Holistic Health Community for several years. She has a small accounting practice in Stone Ridge.
Leah Keith is Co-Founder and Director of Rhythm of the Arts LLC, a creative producing house and talent agency for touring performing artists. Proudly Latina, she is committed to elevating BIPOC voices on stage and connecting with new audiences and communities. Her 20-year career history spans artist/tour management and booking, marketing and fundraising, outreach, and performance. She, along with her husband, daughter, and dog, are thrilled to call Main Street, Rosendale home.
Marcia Kline brings her experience in media publishing to the Board. As Associate Publisher at Conde Nast Traveler and Hearst’s Esquire, she led international advertising sales and marketing teams, selling branded content programs and display advertising. While residing in Bali, Marcia launched A Wider Net, LLC which allows her to independently represent all of the Conde Nast brands in Southeast Asia and Australia. A Wider Net also consults on new business development with various Manhattan-based brands, though she has now become a full-time of Rosendale. Marcia is a passionate traveler, foodie and film lover. She chairs the Theatre’s Development Committee and is co-founder of The CinemaniacsT (the teen advisory board of the RTC.)
Pam Kray is a film/video artist and writer. She has exhibited in the United States and internationally and has collaborated with filmmakers, composers, artists, dancers and theatrical producers to create short and feature narrative, experimental and documentary works. Pam is also an avid mycologist. Since moving to the Hudson Valley in 2010, Pam has taught media literacy at SUNY Ulster edited the 2012 worked to create a video on Food Insecurity for UlsterCorps. From 2011 through 2016, she was video artist, videographer and projection designer for the ArtTree Theater Group at Eastern Correctional Facility, a men’s maximum-security prison in Napanoch, NY. Pam has also used her videographer skills to support the Rondout Valley Growers’ Association. She Co-chairs the Theatre’s Programming Committee.
Caren Martineau is a social entrepreneur with deep creative and branding chops. As an innovator and mapper of cultural zeitgeists, it was the emotional cost of living longer and dying slower that led her to launch Bevival.com, a content platform dedicated to death literacy. Considered to be a defining concept, Bevival is establishing itself as a dynamic source of edutainment programming for an aging society. Prior to becoming a Rosendale resident in 2020, she served on the Board of Directors for a variety of non-profits and taught Entrepreneurial Thinking. Caren serves on the Marketing, Dev/Com and Programming Committees.
Wendy Saul, PhD, brings her extensive experience in grant-writing and her interest in governance to the Theatre Board. For the past 30+ years she has taught and supported teachers in Baltimore and St. Louis as well as in under-resourced communities in Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia and Africa. Her recent books focus on active learning and critical thinking. Before retiring and moving to the Hudson Valley, Saul held an Endowed Chair in Education and International Studies at the U. of Missouri. She also served as President of the International Book Bank and the International Programming Committee at CODE, a Canadian NGO. She serves on the Development Committee.