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Artistic Director
 Peter
comes to the Inge Festival after serving as Producing Director
of the Los Angeles Repertory Company for seven years. For
over twenty-five years, Peter has worked in professional
theatre, film and television as a director, producer, stage
manager and actor. His productions received numerous awards
and nominations. He has taught acting, directing, voice,
Shakespeare and musical theatre at the professional level and
has additional teaching experience at the collegiate and high
school level. He recently sat on the Governing Council of the
Association of Theatre for Higher Education. He served two
terms on the Board of Governors of Theatre LA, an organization
of over 150 theatres in Southern California and created their
group liability insurance program while serving on their
finance committee. He was a founding member of the Southern
California Arts Coalition, a cooperative fundraising venture
for inter-disciplinary non-profit arts groups, and served as a
Site Visitor for the California Arts Council. He comes from a
theatrical family. His father is actor/director Robert
Ellenstein and his brother, David, is also a working
actor/director. Locally, Peter has been pleased to serve on
the Memorial Hall Task Force, a sub-committee of the Cultural
Affairs task force, and as a mock judge and talent judge for
Independence's famed Neewollah Festival. Peter received his
Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Minnesota State University,
Mankato.
E-Mail:
pellenstein@ingecenter.org
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Center Associate
 Bruce
Peterson primarily worked in arts and entertainment
journalism prior to his arrival in Independence in October
of 2002. He has been an editor with Back Stage
publications in New York and is a long-time correspondent
for The Stage of London, the United Kingdom’s leading
theatrical newspaper. In his native California, Peterson
worked in the development office of International House of
Berkeley and as arts editor of a suburban daily newspaper.
He received an M.S. in Arts Administration from Drexel
University, Philadelphia, and a B.A. in Broadcasting at San
Francisco State University. Bruce starred as the Dentist in
the 2003 Neewollah production of "Little Shop of Horrors."
E-Mail:
bpeterson@ingecenter.org
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Special Projects Coordinator
Hannah
Joyce-Hoven, Special
Projects Coordinator, prior to moving to Independence, KS in
August 2003, lived in St. Louis, Missouri where she worked
as an actor for various professional theater companies,
including: Hothouse Theater, City Players, Mostly Harmless
Theater Company, and St. Louis Shakespeare. She had a
regular gig with That Uppity Theater Company as part of
their ensemble called, The DisAbility Project. They worked actively
through the medium of theater to educate people about
disability. She participated in her first documentary film
last summer with The DisAbility Project, which
premiered this summer at the St. Louis Film Festival and has
since been invited to show at the St. Louis International
Film Festival. Since moving to Independence she has
performed in the 24-HOUR PLAYS at the William Inge Center
for the Arts, SANDMOUNTAIN and TALKING WITH at the ICC
theater, and CATALINA DE EROUSO- THE MAN INSIDE OF ME,
TWILIGHT'S END, and THE EROTIC LIFE OF PROPERTY as part of
the Inge Festival's playwrights-in-residence staged reading
series. She studied theatre at Wheaton College.
Tribute Director
 Saturday
evening's Tribute to Arthur Laurents was the Nineteenth
program Mike has written and directed for the William Inge
Festival, beginning with "Penn Avenue To Broadway" in 1981. He
is the Executive Director of the Media Resources Center, WSU-TV,
and KMUW-FM at Wichita State University. Mike is an alum of
Independence Community College and won an ANNA award for Best
Director in 1967. His M.F.A. degree in Cinema/Television
Production is from the University of Southern California.
Mike's video, "Big People, Small Towns", produced for the 20th
Inge Festival, won a national CASE award. His work has been
lauded by the likes of Arthur Miller, Stephen Sondheim and
Neil Simon, who considered the tribute more impressive than
the Kennedy Center honors.
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Our Volunteer Steering
Committee
Martha Allison * Rich Browning *
Cheryl Carvajal * Hoite Caston
Michelle Chambers * Drew Demo * Mike
Flood * Hannah Joyce * Anne Kaff
Lois Lessman * Gary Mitchell * Lisa
Mitchell * Liz Reynolds
Jon Sidoli * Leseley Simpson * Rachel Torbett * Denise Warring
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