Peter Ellenstein

Artistic Director

Peter came to the to the Inge Center in 2001.  For over twenty-five 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, where he directed the acclaimed Los Angeles Premiere of Sondheim and Weidman’s “Assassins.” Peter’s has worked in theatre across the country from Los Angeles to New York, San Diego to Minnesota and Florida to Alaska, Broadway and Off-Broadway. His productions have 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 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.  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 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 comes from a theatrical family.  His father is actor/director Robert Ellenstein and his brother, David, is Artistic Director of North Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California. Locally, Peter has been pleased to serve on the Booth Theatre Foundation Board, 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 attended American Conservatory Theatre and received his Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato.  He is a member of Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers

E-Mail: pellenstein@ingecenter.org

Bruce Peterson

E-Mail: bpeterson@ingecenter.org
 

Hannah Joyce-Hoven

Special Projects Coordinator

E-Mail: hjoyce@ingecenter.org

Jon Sidoli

Academic/Fine Arts Chair

Jon Sidoli is the Academic Chair for the William Inge Center for the Arts at Independence Community College. Jon is a professional actor having worked in many theatres in the Los Angeles area, including stints as a resident company member at the professional regional theatres South Coast Repertory and the Laguna Playhouse. He has appeared extensively in professional staged readings of new plays at the Inge Center. He has also directed over 30 professional and academic productions. He is the author/producer/director of the highly acclaimed INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL, a play about slave Harriet Ann Jacobs. Jon is a graduate of Boston College and has a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of California, Irvine. He also studied at the South Coast Repertory Acting Conservatory.

Mike Wood

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.  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.

Sarah Bell, Brandi Poole, Alexandra Sissom, Nikki Tuggle

Student Assistants

Our Volunteer Steering Committee

Martha Allison  *  Rich Browning * Hoite Caston 

Michelle Chambers * Drew Demo * Lisa Erbe * Mike Flood * Marisa Fritzemeier

Anne Kaff * Lisa Mitchell * Stacy Near * Liz Reynolds *  Jon Sidoli

 Andrew Silva * Leseley Simpson * Kelly Webber * Greg White * Denise Williams

Board Members & Key Staff
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