BRANDI MATHIS (Managing Director) Brandi 's professional experience includes serving five years as Artistic Director/Curator of Performance at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, developing new touring work with Colorado-based performers through a grant from the National Performance Network's Creation Fund. As a producer, her projects have toured to such venues as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, DiverseWorks, LaMaMa Experimental Theatre, 59E59 Theater, and Joe 's Pub. At the University of Colorado at Boulder, she was adjunct faculty in the Department of Theatre and Dance. In addition to curatorial projects in Colorado, California and New York, she has also worked for film festivals, including the San Francisco International Film Festival and the SF Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and served as co-Artistic Director of the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema and as Managing Director for the 2005 Moondance International Film Festival. Brandi has also worked as a lighting and set designer, a critic and playwright. She holds a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in Religious Studies from Naropa University.
	TESS VAN HORN (Program Assistant) Tess works for Add Verb as an Americorps* VISTA Volunteer and facilitates workshops writes grants, and helps manage all our programs. A recent college graduate from Sarah Lawrence College, Tess majored in Theatre, primarily focusing on experimental theatre and theatre for/with youth and while in New York worked with groups such as The Kitchen and The Wooster Group. Growing up on the stage, Tess has performed with The Playhouse, The Belfast Maskers, The Waterville Opera House, The New Surry Theatre Company, at the Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center in Gardiner, the Hampton Playhouse in New Hampshire, with the 15 Minute Play Festival in Belfast, Maine, and most recently with Acorn Productions here in Portland.
	CATHY PLOURDE (Executive Director/ Playwright) Cathy Plourde. MA in Theatre and Social Change (Vermont College) and a BS, Communication Education (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, '90). As an actor, she received recognition from IUP for Outstanding Achievement in Performance, and while teaching high school, received a National Endowment for the Humanities to study playwriting and directing at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. In the mid-90's she began using theatre as activism and education writing plays for girls conferences and working with various groups around the state helping them to create their own performance pieces. Her work has received grant funding from the Maine Women's Fund, the Maine Community Foundation, and has gotten through critical junctions with support from Bonnie Rukin Miller. For several years she's been involved with the Maine Alliance for Arts Education, and helped to create their Building Community Through Arts artist residency in rural Maine high schools program. The Maine Women's Fund, Mainely Girls, and the Knox County Coalition Against Tobacco have commissioned her plays. Workshops and facilitation have been hired by such groups as Where the Girls Are/Portland YWCA, Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine, Pine Tree Folk School, Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence and several of its affiliates, the Maine Youth Center, Acadia Hospital, Maine Alliance for Arts Education, and Central Aroostook Council on Education. Cathy is a member of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (elected Focus Group Representative in Theatre and Social Change), a respondent and workshop facilitator for the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival Region I, a member of Dramatists Guild of America, and Adjunct Artist in Residence at the University of Southern Maine.

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