About The Weekend Theater
The Weekend Theater is a non-profit theatrical community that produces socially
significant plays for the central Arkansas community. Our story dates back to 1993 to a
production staged at a local church.
Today, though, our intimate theater is located in a wonderful, comfortably remodeled
two-story building at the corner of 7th and Chester streets in Little Rock. For
theater-lovers, the setting is decidedly New York in character - apartments upstairs,
theater downstairs, pizza joint/microbrewery across one street, and the local fire station
across the other! And now, the theater is totally smoke-free.
The Weekend Theater Credo
Although we are called The Weekend Theater because we are volunteers who work at
daytime jobs and perform only on the weekends, a more descriptive name might be community
playhouse. We attempt to be a true community of people dedicated to the teaching, learning
and practice of kindness, respect and honor. In short, we hope to practice
“community,” the coming together into a oneness.
Unlike other theaters, while our performance and product are important, they remain
secondary. Primary for us is how we treat each other and how, through our plays and
musicals, we teach ourselves how to care about others. We attempt to accomplish this goal
by personally, interpersonally, and educationally reducing prejudice, cruelty and
indifference, which are so often created by emphasizing human differences, including
gender, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, health status, etc. To
accomplish this, we choose plays of social significance, with themes in which people learn
through such things as suffering, cruelty, and insensitivity. In order to “practice
what we preach,” we volunteers of The Weekend Theater agree to interact with as much
thoughtfulness and awareness of our actions and the effects those actions might have on
ourselves and each other as we are capable of at the present time. We attempt to grow more
compassionate with each interaction. In these ways we hope to increase understanding which
leads to kindness and to decrease miscommunication that leads to so much suffering.
The Weekend Theater Board
| Kate East |
President |
| Margaret Parker |
Vice President |
| Laura Smoller |
Secretary & Treasurer |
|
Jaime Scott Blakey, Edmond Davis, John Andrew Ellis, Allison Pace, Alexis M. Skinner, Grif Stockley, Debra Watkins |
|
Ralph Hyman, Artistic Director (non-voting) |
Andy Hall, Assistant Artistic Director (non-voting) |
Patti German, Executive Director (non-voting) |
The Weekend Theater Staff
| Artistic Director |
Ralph Hyman |
| Assistant Artistic Director |
Andy Hall |
| Executive Director |
Patti German |
| Assistant to the Executive Director |
Regi Ott-Bragg |
| Staff Secretary |
Beckey Davis |
| Board / Staff Liaison |
Andy Hall |
| Building Manager |
Tom McLeod |
| Resident Musical Director |
Lori Isner |
| Resident Vocal Coach |
Doug Killgore |
| Technical Director |
Eric Wolff |
| Resident Technical Organizer |
Nathan Ziegler |
| Resident Lighting Designer |
James Heppler |
| Resident Sound Designer |
Johnnie Brannon |
| Resident Prop Mistresses |
Beckey Davis & Phyllis Thomas |
| Resident Photographer |
Byron Taylor |
| Program/Print Editing & Art Design |
Byron Taylor & Allison Pace |
| Webmaster |
Kristy Pryor |
| MySpace.com Website Coordinator |
Jason Willey |
| Online Publicity Coordinator |
(position is currently vacant) |
| Facebook Website Coordinator |
Justin Pike |
| Press Coordinator |
Susan Pierce |
| Publicity Assistant |
Libby Singleton |
| Mailout Coordinator |
Phyllis Thomas |
| Mailing List Coordinator |
Deborah Lawson |
| E-mail List Coordinator |
Kelly Stone |
| Reservations Coordinator |
Tamara Murray |
| Volunteer Coordinator |
Liz Clarke |
| House Manager / Intermission Bar Coordinator |
Donna Singleton |
| Historian |
Helene Rush |
| Box Office Manager |
Mary Schneider |
| Theater & Intermission Bar Supplies |
Jeremy Bragg |
| Public Relations |
(position is currently vacant) |
| Publicity/Marketing Coordinator |
(position is currently vacant) |
| Production Manager |
(position is currently vacant) |
