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Derek Lucci, Founder & President
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Derek Lucci - Founder & PresidentBorn and raised in New Hampshire, Derek Lucci brings more than two decades of experience as an actor, director, writer, visual artist and lead educator to his role as founder and director of Open Sky.
In addition to an extensive resume of commercial theater and television work, both in New York City and at venues across the country, Derek has developed a series of solo performance pieces adapted from the work of William Gaddis, J. M. Coetzee and David Foster Wallace. Formerly Head of Primary Training at New York University/Tisch Playwrights Horizons Theater School, Derek's teaching credits include positions at The Experimental Theater Wing (NYU/Tisch School for the Arts). He has served as a guest artist/lecturer at The Yale School of Drama Summer Conservatory, UMASS Amherst, University of Oklahoma, and at school and drama programs throughout New Hampshire. Derek Holds a B.A. in English/Theater from the University of New Hampshire, a certificate from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London (UK) and an M.F.A. in Acting from Yale School of Drama. He is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. In addition to his work with Open Sky, Derek continues to teach acting, and coach actors, privately. More at http://dereklucci.weebly.com/ Lisa Starnes started her career as a petroleum engineer and comes to us after 25 years as a consulting actuary for Milliman - a major international actuarial consulting firm - working in Houston, London and New York, finishing up as a Principal Partner of the firm. Lisa specialized in group health - and consulted in all risk and financial related matters in the group health world (largely pricing and reserving) for a wide spectrum of health benefit clients: health insurers, capitated Medicaid plans, hospitals, hospital owned health plans, physician groups, large employers, etc. In short, Lisa is a focused numbers person and although not an accountant, she understands financials well and easily navigates earned income statements, cash flow and balance sheets and is excited and happy to do the technical work to set up our 501(c)(3).
Board of DirectorsKaren Borgstrom
Bio to come soon. JOHN T. BRODERICK JR., Chair
Former Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, John T. Broderick, Jr. served as Associate Justice of the court from 1995 to 2004 and as its Chief Justice from 2004 to 2010. Broderick holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross. Broderick also served as Dean and President of the University of New Hampshire School of Law until May 2015. Since 2015, Broderick has been on a journey to end the stigma surrounding mental health in New Hampshire Derek Lucci, Founder & Executive Director
See full bio above. JENI MAHONEY, Vice president
Jeni is a playwright, dramaturg, teacher, and artistic director with a special interest in the development of new work. As Producing Artistic Director of Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and founder of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, she has created and implemented programming that has been instrumental in the development of more than 240 new American plays by Pulitzer Prize winners, emerging voices, high school students and everything in between. Since 2001, plays developed at Seven Devils have gone on to productions on Broadway and off-Broadway and at professional theaters around the world. Jeni's plays have been presented at the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center, InterAct Theater, Greenwich Playhouse (London), L.A. Theater Center, the Lark Playwrights Week, Rattlestick, Circus Theatricals, Key City Public Theater, Boston Theater Marathon and Boise Contemporary Theater, among others. She was twice named to the Kilroy List of Playwrights (2014 and 2015) and the world premiere of her play Fata Morgana was the recipient of an Artworks Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. Jeni a is member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the National Theatre Conference and was inducted into the IndieTheatre Hall of Fame in 2014. She has served as an adjudicator for the National Endowment for the Arts theatre funding program and is on the Board of Directors for Fleischer Studios, Inc., where she serves as Head of Digital Media and and Animation Historian. More at: jenimahoney.com LISA STARNES, TREASURER
Dr. Cynthia Whitaker, secretary
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