Staff
(Click name for bio)
Michael Seel / Executive Director, Boston Court Performing Arts Center
produced the first seventeen main stage productions for The Theatre @ Boston Court as its Producing Director. In January 2008 he became Executive Director for the organization. Michael is a special event producer/director (directing the last sixteen American Cinema Editors Awards, producing/directing the last five Hollywood Awards, seven Writers Guild of America Awards, as well as events for Bank of America, ABC Television, MTV, and VH1). He is vice president of the board of directors for the Playhouse District Association in Pasadena. Email him at MichaelS@bostoncourt.com.
Hillary Metcalf / Managing Director, Boston Court Performing Arts Center
is thrilled to be working at Boston Court Performing Arts Center as Managing Director. Hillary has held nonprofit administrative and producing positions with such organizations as Cabrillo Music Theater, Lookingglass Theatre Company, The Redmoon Theater, and The Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, publisher of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Most recently she served as the Theater Manager and Casting Director for American Girl Place Theater – Los Angeles.
Brian Polak / Marketing/Development Associate, Boston Court Performing Arts Center
is a transplant from Boston where he was a founding member of the award winning Alarm Clock Theatre Company. Brian is thrilled to be working with the wonderful staff at Boston Court. When not writing bios and blurbs for Boston Court he is busy writing plays. In 2006 he won an Eliot Norton Award as co-writer of PS Page Me Later. His short play Reverse Evolution is published by Smith & Kraus in the anthology “Best 10-minute Plays of 2009.” Brian is a board member of needtheatre Company in Los Angeles and a volunteer mentor with Young Storytellers Foundation..
Liza Tognazzini / Production Manager, Boston Court Performing Arts Center
is the owner
and founder of Really Truly Productions, a live event production company in Los Angeles
focused on providing skilled management expertise to the theatrical and special event
industry in Southern California. A graduate of the National Theatre School in Canada, Liza's
training and 10 years of industry experience has been instrumental in keeping her in demand
as a stage and production manager in Los Angeles. Locally, Liza's work has been seen at A
Noise Within, Theater 150, Bootleg, The Blank, Azusa Pacific University, The Hollywood
Awards, ACE Awards, and elsewhere. This is her tenth project with Boston Court.
www.reallytrulyproductions.com
Meg Hackney / Events Manager, Boston Court Performing Arts Center
hails from Philadelphia where she worked at the Walnut Street Theatre and the Wilma Theatre before taking a position as Assistant to the General Manager at the Merriam Theater. Happy circumstances landed Meg here at Boston Court. She is delighted to be enjoying California and all that it has to offer… especially the wine.
Pete Sauber / Technical Director, Boston Court Performing Arts Center
is equally happy treading the boards or screwing them down. He has worked in various aspects of technical theater for 10 years, in Mendocino County, the S.F. Bay Area, and Los Angeles. He earned his BA in Technical Theatre from San Francisco State University (3rd generation SFSU), and has worked with the Marin Theatre Company, the Magic Theatre S.F., A Traveling Jewish Theatre, the S.F. Mime Troupe, A Noise Within and the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and with UCLA Live. Pete is also a sketch comedy writer/performer and an Elvis impersonator. Pete would also like to dedicate his work on this show to the memory of his recently departed Great Aunt Ernestine (SFSU ‘36), who first helped him believe in magic.
Eleanor Albano / Advertising
Mindy M. Schwartz / Legal Counsel
Eileen T’Kaye / Founding Producing Director, Boston Court Performing Arts Center
has been acting, producing, and general managing in theatre for 30+ years. Her work has been honored with Ovation, L.A. Drama Critics Circle, L.A. Weekly, OOBR, Drama-Logue and Garland Awards. Her NY productions have been honored with Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Award nominations. Ms. T’Kaye most recently appeared as Hucklebee in The Fantasticks at Reprise! and as Mrs. Peachum in Threepenny Opera at International City Theatre. She has performed on the Boston Court mainstage in Gulls, Medea and Summertime. She lives in Los Angeles with her amazing husband David and their three feline kids.
Z. Clark Branson / Founding Director, Boston Court Performing Arts Center
Raised in Pasadena, Clark is fulfilling a lifelong dream with the creation of Boston Court. He was honored with the Pasadena Art Council’s 2005 Gold Crown Award, for recognition of excellence in and support of the arts. He has produced musical concerts, workshops, world premiere plays and musicals for over 25 years. An artist in his own right, Clark is a painter, a published author and well known for his folk singing and storytelling.
Jessica Kubzansky / Co-Artistic Director, The Theatre @ Boston Court
is an award winning director working nationally. Recent: Hamlet (Theater 150), Mauritius (Pasadena
Playhouse). World premieres: Julie Hébert's Tree (ESTLA/Inside the Ford), Laura Schellhardt’s Courting Vampires. Salamone/McIntyre’s, Gulls, Mickey Birnbaum’s Bleed Rail, Carlos Murillo’s Unfinished American Highwayscape...,Van Itallie’s Light, Cody Henderson’s Cold/Tender (all at T@BC), Bob Clyman’s Tranced (Laguna Playhouse), also, Julia Cho’s BFE (Portland Center Stage), Jacobson’s The Orange Grove (Playwright’s Arena), Bryan Davidson’s War Music (Geffen & LATC), Sheila Callaghan’s Kate Crackernuts (24th Street Theatre).Plus, Mother Courage (T@BC), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Illinois Shakes), The Glass Menagerie, Toys in the Attic (Colony), Measure for Measure (A Noise Within), etc. LADCC Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre.
Michael Michetti / Director, Co-Artistic Director, The Theatre @ Boston Court
Directed T@BC: Deborah Stein's God Save Gertrude; Jason Grote’s 1001; Carlos Murillo's dark play or stories for boys; Eric Whitacre's Paradise Lost: Shadows & Wings; his own adaptation of Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray; Sinan Ünel's Pera Palas; Charles L. Mee's Summertime; and Romeo & Juliet: Antebellum New Orleans, 1836. Elsewhere: Hamlet, As You Like It and Don Juan (A Noise Within); Carousel, Man of La Mancha and Li'l Abner (Reprise); Ouroboros (Road Theatre); Anyone Can Whistle (Matrix Theatre); A Life in the Theatre starring Hal Holbrook (Pasadena Playhouse); Edward II (Circle X). He is the recipient of two Ovation Awards and four LADCC Awards.
Brett Webster / Co-Literary Manager, The Theatre @ Boston Court
Brett was the resident playwright and literary manager at Unknown Theater, and a member of Company of Angels Playwrights’ Group. His plays have been seen at Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre, Austin’s The Hideout and Hyde Park Theatre, and LA’s Unknown Theater, Theatricum Botanicum, Company of Angels, and Avery Schreiber Theatre. His work has been featured in New South for the New Century, FronteraFest, Botanicum Seedlings, LA Views, and Within the Unknown and CoA Play Festivals. He was a finalist for PlayLabs at Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, and recently nominated for the Valley Theatre League’s ADA Award for Best Original Play.
Aaron Henne / Co-Literary Manager, The Theatre @ Boston Court
has served in script development capacities for Culture Clash, The Colony Theatre Company and Center Theatre Group. As playwright, Aaron’s works include King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free!(Original Works Publishing) and Sliding Into Hades(2008 LA Weekly Award for Playwriting). His playwriting process book, You Already Know, is available through Writ Large Press. His next project, collision/theory’s Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon: The Nibelungen, is an LA Opera Ring Festival Partner. He teaches playwriting for the Robey Theatre Company and throughout the city. Aaron is a proud member of the Playwrights Union.







