Carol Thompson (head of stage management) is the department administrator and general manager of the Rutgers Theater Company. She was the producing director of the Levin Theater Company's Summer Shakespeare Festisval and general manager of the Levin Theater Company. Among her stage management credits are the premieres of The Woolgatherer, Extremities, andDeer Season at St. Clement's Theater in New York. She is a member of Actors' Equity Association and a past member of the 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 'da Funk, Copenhagen, and It Ain't Nothin But the Blues. He stage-managed the critically acclaimed productions of Simon McBurney'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, NJ, 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, directed by Harold Scott (both from Mason Gross). His background includes dance production with Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Susan Warden Dance Company, as well as production management of the Tony Award-winning Crossroads Theatre Company and the 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 moving east to attend Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1985.
