Joshua Conkel
Co-Artistic Director

After seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the tender age of eleven, Joshua simultaneously became obsessed with performance, rock and roll, and underground pop culture. After spending the following seven years as a child actor/ teenage delinquent, he enrolled at Cornish College of the Arts where he began studying acting.

Frustrated by the lack of interesting plays and roles available for queers/weirdos/and other outcasts, Joshua began to write and direct his own work and switched over to Cornish’s Original Works program. These four years were spent feverishly writing plays and haphazardly producing them. Joshua’s plays written during this period include A Love Story for People Who Hate Everything, Pretty as a Picture or The Story of a Girl Who was Almost in a Warrant Video, Odd Days/Even Days, White Trash Waltzing, and his solo piece The Invisible Boy Says Goodbye.

During his senior year, Joshua caught the attention of playwright Craig Lucas, which enabled him to get an internship assistant directing The Light in the Piazza at the Intiman Theater. The musical would later move to Broadway and win six Tony awards.

He relocated to New York immediately after graduating from Cornish and accepted a rare acting role as Myrna in The Management’s production of Naomi Iizuka’s Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls. Little did he know he would be the company’s Artistic Director within the year.

Joshua most recently directed Self-Obsession in Blue for the first annual Capital Fringe Festival in Washington DC and premiered his newest play, The Chalk Boy, at Chashama in New York City. He most recently appeared as a performer in Target Margin's Aristophanic Laboratory at H.E.R.E.

In terms of writing projects, Joshua is currently working on a web series called Chris and Chris are Heinous Bitches as well as a stand-up act for his altar ego, 1980's lady stand-up Peggy DiMarco.

Joshua lives in Brooklyn with his boyfriend, Keith Rohn. For more information, visit www.tarhearted.typepad.com

Marguerite French
Managing Director

Marguerite is an actress and a founding member of The Management. She has originated many roles to critical acclaim, including the title roles in Sugarbaby! and Lorelei Lee with DM Theatrics. Other notable roles include the titular characters in Antigone and Romeo and Juliet, Vivian in Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls and Lucia in Mad Forest (NYIT nomination). In her native California, she studied with alumni of the Ashland Shakespeare Festival and the American Conservatory Theater and continued her training in New York with Wynn Handman and William Esper. Marguerite is also a member of The Savannah Theatre Project, an initiative to promote peace through art, with whom she collaborated on a new work for the Witness Hilton Arts Festival in Hilton, South Africa.

Amy Patrice Golden
Executive Director

Amy is a Jersey girl, born and bred. Her parents, an English Professor and and Artist, raised her in the casual way that liberals in the late 70s had about child rearing- surviving on cucumbers, home-grown tomatoes, an occassional stew, and lots of books. Given free reign to dress the way she wanted, Amy usually sported a pair of high-heeled shoes (borrowed from her mother's closet) a tutu, a headscarf, an abundance of jewelry, and a large pair of sunglasses. Glamour was her middle name. Sadly, she was forced to change her name when her parents implusively decided that Patrice was too regal of a name for such a small, laughing, red-head and called her Amy.

www.amypatricegolden.com

Amy came to acting in the same roundabout way her parents raised her- simply by accident. In college she studied English and Fine Art (the apple does not fall far from the tree), but found, as she prepared her Ph.D. applications that she wasn't happy. She applied and served in Americorps; she traveled; she taught and, in teaching, she found a challenge and a promise.

After directing her students in a small show, an uncle of a student praised her work and told her she should look into directing. A colleague, who was a filmmaker, advised her to read the Practical Handbook for the Actor- It was a miraculous happenstance. The book made perfect sense. However, she knew nothing and that-- as it happens-was the best place to begin. Never having trained meant no bad habits! She was a fresh slate. She applied to the Atlantic Theater's Program and was told she was out of her mind, but with charm and verve she convinced the administration to give her a chance- and she has never looked back.

As a recent graduate of the Atlantic Theater Conservatory, Amy has not stopped working and, god willing, never will. She has the fortune of working steadily in the theater and in film. She is the Executive Director of The Management, which she helped found two years ago. The company is her creative home and she is grateful for its challenges, heartbreaks, successes, and total Victories.

Amy works as an actress and as a producer with PROACTIVE, a wonderful collective of artists. With PROACTIVE, Amy has helped make eleven films in the last year. Co-producing two films, acting as a principal in two, and featured in others, has been an extraordinary learning experience. Additionally, She works with other artists and companies as an actress- most recently, completing three short films, currently filming an indie feature in the lead role, and will be seen in When Santo Domingo isn’t Enough in the role of Gabby at the Cherry Lane Theater as part of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in June.

Amy is a good-natured, hard-working, person, who hates talking about herself in the third person! She wants to make passionate, inspired work with other artists, who are equally (or more!) focused and talented, which is why, of course, she loves her company.

Jennifer Harder
Director of PR & Marketing

Jennifer first started acting with the Flint Youth Theatre in Michigan. She received a BFA with honors from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and has since performed in and produced over 100 plays and films as well as voiceovers, videos, and interactive webisodes. Companies she’s worked with include: chashama (inaugural summer of 2000), 29th St. Rep (Bold Girls), Target Margin (Faust in Love), Les Freres Corbusier (The Franklin Thesis), the Professional Actors' Collective, Cohn Creative Group, and her first company, The Enemy of Art, in the Dublin Fringe Festival. She can currently be seen in The Beggars Group production of Armor of Wills, May 1-17 in Manhattan.

Her hobbies include biking, swimming, tennis, vegan baking, and watching fireworks at Coney Island.

And now, since she has learned programming as webmistress for The Management, www.jenniferharder.com is now in the works!

She is also a trumpet player and can be heard around town with jazz bassist Julio Barros at various cabaret venues and with the folk rock band The Last Winter.

Courtney Sale
Co-Artistic Director

Seattle directing credits include Bright Room Called Day (Strike Anywhere Productions), Henry VI Part 1 (Babes with the Bard), and Singer Stories (Seattle Children's Museum). As an actor, Courtney has worked with San Francisco-based Crowded Fire and Expression Theatre Ensemble, Seattle-based ARTSWest and Greenstage, Elden St. Players in Washington D.C., and Jewish Theater of New York. She assistant- directed Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith's Seattle premiere of Monster at A Contemporary Theater. She was also selected as one of fourteen emerging directors to participate in Peter Brook’s workshop in conjunction with his tour of Hamlet. She holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts.