Carol Thompson (head of stage management) is the departmental administrator and general manager of the Rutgers Theater Company. She was the producing director of the Levin Theater Company's Summer Shakespeare Festival and general manager of the Levin Theater Company. Among her stage management credits are the premieres of The Woolgatherer, Extremities, and Deer Season at St. Clement's Theater in New York. She is a member of the Actors' Equity Association and a past member of the University/Resident Theatre Association (U/RTA) Board of Directors.
Doug Hosney
(stage management) is currently the director of
production for jazz at Lincoln Center. Mr. Hosney is a
graduate of Mason Gross School
of the Arts in stage management. His credits include Broadway, off-Broadway,
national tours, and regional theater, including Bring In 'Da Noise Bring In 'DaFunk; Copenhagen;
and It Ain't Nothin But the Blues. He stage-managed the
critically acclaimed productions of Simon McBumey's The Resistible Rise of
Arturo UI and Bob Balaban's The Exonerated. Immediately following
his work at Mason Gross, he joined in the renovation and operational set-up of
the State Theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and became the director of operations for the New Brunswick Cultural Center.
He was honored to stage manage the Broadway production of Paul Robeson, with
Avery Brooks, and directed by Harold Scott (both from Mason Gross School of the Arts). His
background includes dance production with Pilobolus Dance Theatre and the Susan
Warden Dance Company, as well as production management of the Tony Award-winning
Crossroads Theatre Company and Paper Mill Playhouse. He served as the
general manager of the 1994 and 1996 National Black Arts Festivals in Atlanta, Georgia.
His touring experience is extensive and includes international tours with
Pilobolus Dance Theatre and the first professional company to tour South Africa
after the fall of apartheid with Mbongeni Ngema's Sheila's Day. Mr.
Hosney is originally from Kansas and did his
undergraduate work at Kansas State University
before attending Mason Gross School
of the Arts in 1985.
