AASD's Board of Directors is composed of individuals from the San Diego acting community. Their guidance and recommendations help direct the course of the organization.
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BOARD CHAIRPERSON - JENNI PRISK
Award-winning motivational speaker, communications
coach and trainer www.Prisk.com. A native of New Zealand,
she holds a Diploma in Adult Teaching and is qualified as
a Human Relations and Communications Instructor for the New
Zealand Marriage Guidance Council. She also has a Diploma
in Speech and Drama from Trinity College of London England.
Associate Member of Vistage, an International Community of
Chief Executives; member of the National American Society
for Training and Development (ASTD); and the Actors Alliance
of San Diego. writes a weekly theatre column, In The Wings,
for San Diego TheatreScene http://www.sdtheatre.com/. Founder
of Voices of Women (VOW), an international forum for peace-minded
people, to foster global peace, justice and equality around
the world. For more information, please visit www.voicesofwomen.org.
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SECRETARY - JONATHAN DUNN-RANKIN
Professional Actor; Has appeared in ten plays at The Old Globe, winning
three Atlas Awards for outstanding performances and numerous other
productions at Diversionary Theatre, Lamb’s Players, and North Coast
Repertory Theatre; Taught Journalism at San Diego State as well as City
and Grossmont Colleges; Worked as a reporter and anchor at KFMB-TV,
Channel 8; Became a national representative for AFTRA in 1986; Served
five terms as president of the Diversionary board.
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MEMBER AT LARGE - SYLVIA ENRIQUE
Ms. Enrique appreciates the opportunity to serve on the AASD Board,
being a member who has seen how much work goes into creating programs
specifically designed for San Diego artists and having benefitted from
those programs available to all membership. She has variegated roots in
community service, having served on the Boards of El Centro Cultural de
La Raza (founding member), Teatro Mascara Magica, Common Ground, and
Southwest Voter Registration Project (Southern California); an
Associate Artist with ion Theatre, studying at USD/UCSD, she has
danced, now concentrates on acting on San Diego stages, has toured with
the La Jolla Playhouse POP program and El Teatro Campesino, and has had
the opportunity to work in film. She hopes to contribute to the AASD
mission to serve our performing community.
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MEMBER AT LARGE - MONIQUE GAFFNEY
BIO COMING!
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MEMBER AT LARGE - JOSH HYATT
Film and television: Executive Producer for Color Me Olsen; lead roles: in Air, The Search for One Clean Breath, The Infernal, Campaign America; supporting roles in Forensic Files, The Wager, Trails of Dust, 3 Ways to Sunday, Camp Laureate and Silent Footsteps. Commercials: State Farm, Sony Electronics, American Bible Society, Heinz, and MyNewMarkets.com. Stage credits: San Diego: MENding Monologues, Reindeer Monologues, Searching for Mr. Right, Beyond Therapy; Los Angeles: Twelve Angry Men, Men Loving Men; South Florida: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Once Upon a Mattress, Tomfoolery, Bad Habits, My Fair Lady, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Crazy for You; Executive Producer: Man of La Mancha, Director: A Tuna Christmas, Hairdresser on Fire, Searching for Mr. Right, The Fantasticks, The World Goes Round, The Complete History of America, Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Born Yesterday and Assassins; Stage Manager: Moscow, Acts of Faith, Steel Magnolias and Don’t Dress for Dinner; Costume Designer and Props Master: Zanna Don’t; Costume Designer: The Lonesome West, Shopping and F***king, American Buffalo and Pirates of Penzance.
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MEMBER AT LARGE - SUZANNE OSWALD
Professional Actor; Over 22 years of executive-level administrative experience; Actor B.A., Theatre and Communications, Ashland College, Ohio.
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MEMBER AT LARGE - MARC OVERTON
In a 40-year career that has repeatedly crossed disciplinary
boundaries, Marcus Overton has been an actor, stage director (for both
theatre and opera), teacher ande coach, as well an
internationally-respected arts administrator working at the highest
levels of the profession. In recent years, he has also made a mark in
both radio and television, particularly in a 15-year association with
the South Carolina public broadcasting network, for which he has
produced and hosted awasrd-winning radio shows and an Emmy Award wining
series of television broadcasts.
A graduate of Northwestern University's theatre-training program where
he was a student of Alvina Krause, he made his professional debut in
the title role of RICHARD III at Atlanta's Southeastern Shakespeare
Festival. What was intended to be a temporary detour into arts
management in 1966 turned into a 30-year career in arts management,
inluding top positions at Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Ravinia
Festival, as well as the post of Senior Manager for Performing Arts at
the Smithsonian Institution and as general manager of Spoleto Festival
USA in Charleston SC.
A resident of San Diego since 1997, he has directed
for AASD's OnBook/OnStage series, and for the Carlsbad Playreaders. For
the Renaissance Theatre, he appeared as Peter in ZOO STORY, as Louka in
Moonlight at the Avo's ARMS AND THE MAN, and as Creon in OEDIPUS REX in
the Greek Play series at 6th @ Penn (for which he also directed its
first fully-staged production, Euripides' HIPPOLYTUS.) At present, he
is Artistic Administrator for La Jolla Music Society.
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MEMBER AT LARGE - ERIC POPPICK
Eric moved to San Diego in 2006 after spending thirty years in Los Angeles, working as an actor and director for stage, television and film His local acting credits include: Golden Boy, Four Dogs and a Bone. New Village Arts, The History Boys, Cygnet Theatre, Morning’s at Seven, North Coast Repertory Theatre, One for the Road, Lyceum Theatre.
Elsewhere: Awake and Sing!, Scapino, Rhinoceros, Odyssey Theatre; Don’t Drink the Water, Glendale Center Theatre.
He has directed two productions for Scripps Ranch Theatre, Play it Again, Sam and Over the River and Through the Woods. Film and TV roles include: Basic Instinct, Mouse Hunt, Single White Female, Hero (with Dustin Hoffman), Seinfeld, Columbo, Curb Your Enthusiasm, NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, General Hospital, The Young & The Restless. Eric has a BFA in Acting from Boston University and an MA in Directing from The State University of New York.
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