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Igor Golyak<\/strong> is the founder and producing artistic director of Arlekin Players Theatre & Zero Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab. He is directing the New York premiere of Our Class, Off-Broadway, at BAM in 2024. He conceived and directed <\/span>The Orchard<\/span><\/i> starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht Off-Broadway in 2022. A global leader in the virtual theater movement, in 2023 he directed <\/span>Just Tell No One<\/span><\/i>, part of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings\/CITD, at Lincoln Center featuring Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin and David Krumholz, and directed the virtual elements of the Sasha Denisova\u2019s <\/span>The Gaaga<\/span><\/i> (US premiere). During the pandemic, he conceived and directed <\/span>WITNESS<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>chekhovOS \/an experimental game\/<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>State vs. Natasha Banina<\/span><\/i>, each of which became an international virtual theater sensation, receiving multiple New York Times Critics Picks. His work has been recognized with Elliot Norton Awards for <\/span>The Orchard, The Seagull, The Stone, and Dead Man\u2019s Diary<\/span><\/i>, including a special Citation for extraordinary artistic innovation during the pandemic. Golyak is 2023 Mandel Fellow and winner of a Broadway World\u2019s Best Director Award and multiple This Week In New York Pandemic Awards. He directed <\/span>The Merchant of Venice<\/span><\/i> for Actors\u2019 Shakespeare Project and has directed and taught at Northeastern University, HB Studios, Boston Conservatory, the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts\/Middlesex University, Moscow Specialized Institute for the Arts, and the ARBOS Theatre Festival. Golyak is from Ukraine and <\/span>received a master\u2019s degree in directing from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and an acting degree from Moscow\u2019s Schukin Theatre Institute (Vakhtangov Theater). He <\/span>started an #ArtistsforUkraine initiative days after the war began, and his company Arlekin, a company of immigrants, has performed all over the world, including festivals in Ukraine, Yerevan, Romania, Armenia, New York City, Chicago, Lviv, Monaco, the US, Canada and UK, as well as the Moscow Art Theatre. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\nSara Stackhouse MANAGING PRODUCER<\/h2>\n\n\n
Rimma Gluzman, Chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n Viktoriya Kovalenko, Treasurer<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jennie Jadow, Clerk<\/p>\n\n\n\n Igor Golyak, Artistic Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marianna Golyak, Co-Chair, Development<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robin Hanley, Co-Chair, Development<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meghan Coleman<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alex Kesler<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gena Ravvin<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert Thurer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Olga Aronov<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boris Berdnikov<\/p>\n\n\n\n Irina Bordian<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jenya Brodskaia<\/p>\n\n\n\n Darya Denisova<\/p>\n\n\n\n Polina Dubovikova<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Furman<\/p>\n\n\n\n David Gamarnik<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nana Ghuksayan<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rimma Gluzman<\/p>\n\n\n\n Viktoriya Kovalenko<\/p>\n\n\n\n Olga Matton <\/p>\n\n\n\n Polina Myasnikova<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gena Ravvin<\/p>\n\n\n\n Julia Shikh<\/p>\n\n\n\n Misha Tyutyunik<\/p>\n\n\n\n Irina Vilenchik <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Igor Golyak ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Igor Golyak is the founder and producing artistic director of Arlekin Players Theatre & Zero Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab. He is directing the New York premiere of Our Class, Off-Broadway, at BAM in 2024. He conceived and directed The Orchard starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht Off-Broadway in 2022. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"yoast_head":"\n![\"Sara](\"https:\/\/www.arlekinplayers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Stackhouse.BW1_-256x300.jpg\")
Sara Stackhouse<\/strong>, <\/b>is a creative producer and specialist in strategy and organizational development. She is managing producer of Arlekin Players Theatre and Zero Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab where she is an executive producer of the New York premiere of Our Class<\/i>, Off-Broadway, at BAM in 2024, and was executive producer of The Orchard<\/i> Off-Broadway with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht in 2022.\u00a0 In 2023, she produced Just Tell No One<\/i> at Lincoln Center and The US premiere of The Gaaga<\/i> by Sasha Denisova in Boston. During the pandemic, she produced WITNESS<\/i>, chekhovOS \/an experimental game\/<\/i>, and the international virtual tour of State vs Natasha Banina <\/i>which were worldwide viral sensations and received multiple New York Times Critics Picks. She is co-founder of BroadBand Collaborative, and founder and creative director of The Mama Project, an intercultural project for women in South Africa. She was project manager for cellist Yo-Yo Ma for many years where she was on the producing team for the award winning Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired By Bach<\/i>, a documentary and performance series featuring collaborations with artists across six artistic disciplines and five countries. With Ma, she also managed recordings and collaborations with artists Bobby McFerrin, Mark Morris, Wynton Marsalis, Tamasaburo Bando, Tan Dun, Toni Morrison, Mark O\u2019Connor and others. As Executive Producer of Actors\u2019 Shakespeare Project for over a decade, she produced 48 productions and stewarded the organization from its founding into an award-winning company (Elliot Norton, IRNE, American Theater Wing Awards). She served as Chair of Theater at Boston Conservatory during the merger with Berklee College of Music. Clients have included the Silkroad, Massachusetts Cultural Council, ArtsBoston, Boston Baroque Orchestra, MACS, MIT Media Lab, Forum for Cultural Engagement, Beyond Classical Theatre. She spent nine years on the Board of MassCreative and received the Margaret Stewart Lindsay \u201cInspiration Award\u201d from Boston\u2019s Social Innovation Forum.
<\/span><\/p>\n\n\nMark W. Soucy GENERAL MANAGER<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Mark W. Soucy<\/strong> is a theater administrative professional and an award-winning actor from the Boston area. Mark was part of the leadership staff at New Repertory Theatre for over 17 years, serving as their Development Manager. As a fundraising consultant he has raised support from many local and national institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, Shubert Foundation, Mass Cultural Council, Boston Foundation, Smith Family Foundation, Venturous Fund of the Tides Foundation, and The Foundation for Metrowest. He is a member of Actors Equity Association and received the 2018 IRNE Award – Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Max in The Royale <\/em>at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, a role which he later reprised at Capital Repertory Theatre. Other appearances include Company One\u2019s can I touch it <\/em>(Mark, Leo, Nicky), Capital Rep\u2019s Lobby Hero <\/em>(Bill), Actors\u2019 Shakespeare Project\u2019s Much Ado About Nothing <\/em>(Leonato); Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet <\/em>(Lord Montague), The Boys from Syracuse <\/em>(Aegean), Love’s Labour’s Lost <\/em>(Sir Nathaniel), and King Lear <\/em>(The Duke of Albany).
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