Peter Ellenstein

Artistic Director

Peter Ellenstein came to the Inge Center in 2001. For over thirty years, Peter has worked extensively in professional theatre, film and television as a director, producer, stage manager and actor. For seven years he was Producing Director of the Los Angeles Repertory Company. Peter has worked in theatre all across the country from 99-Seat theatre to Broadway. His productions have received numerous awards and nominations. He has taught acting, directing, voice, Shakespeare and musical theatre professionally and academically. He sat on the Governing Boards of the Association of Theatre for Higher Education and Theatre LA, served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Kansas Arts Commission, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and as a Site Visitor for the NEA and the California Arts Council. He frequently lectures on William Inge and various theatre topics. He comes from a theatrical family. His father Robert was a renowned actor/director on stage and film. His brother David is Artistic Director of North Coast Repertory Company in California. Peter served on the Barack Obama campaign's national arts policy committee.

E-Mail: pellenstein@ingecenter.org

Amanda White

Associate Artistic Director

Amanda White has performed, directed, taught and worked on plays by our resident playwrights, served as an Arts Education consultant and grant writer to the Inge Center, and has worked with many former Inge Artists-In-Residence in New York, Chicago and Minneapolis. Amanda has served recently as a Design Coordinator for Target Corporation, as the Coordinator of Planning & Development at Lincoln Center, and in play development for Broadway producers The Araca Group. Amanda has worked as an actor, producer, director, administrator and board member for theatre companies across the US, most recently for Minneapolis' The Mechanical Division. She's a member of Actors Equity, has an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University, and is a graduate of The School at Steppenwolf.

E-Mail: awhite@ingecenter.org

Hannah Joyce-Hoven

Associate Director of Education and Outreach/Special Projects Coordinator

E-Mail: hjoyce@ingecenter.org

Bruce Peterson

E-Mail: bpeterson@ingecenter.org
 

Nathan Lee

E-Mail: nlee@ingecenter.org
 

Lily Morgan

E-Mail: lmorgan@ingecenter.org
 

Mike Wood

Tribute Director

Mike Wood has written and directed twenty-two tribute programs for the William Inge Theatre 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.  Working with the ICC, Mike was recently awarded an NEA grant to digitize and transcribe the playwright interviews that he has conducted over the past two decades.  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.

Caleb Bechtle, Allison O'Brien, Colin Stephens

Student Assistants

Our Volunteer Steering Committee

Martha Allison  *  Hoite Caston * Michelle Chambers * Keith Confer * Drew Demo

Mike Flood * Lisa Kramer * Lily Morgan * Stacy Near * Lisa Paige

Liz Reynolds *  Lea Shepard * Leseley Simpson * Greg White * Tony Wood