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| LAYLAH MURAN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) Laylah has been involved in theatre and writing creative fiction since childhood. Laylah served on the Board of Directors for the Playwrights Center of San Francisco and has been the Producer for their annual benefit production of Sheherezade for the past three years. In addition to her theatrical endeavors, Laylah has worked for the last two decades in process improvement, project management, and program leadership in a number of different industries. She particularly enjoys bringing her creative and professional background together to help create an environment for dynamic theatre. She is currently working on the full-length, not-quite-one-woman show Da-Da Baby about her upbringing in absurdist theatre and the gay community. |  |
|  | SARA STALEY(PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) Sara received her BA in theater from UCLA. She worked in television production for NBC and The Disney Channel, and as a program administrator with UCLA Extensions Department of Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts. Since 2001, she has been the Director of the YouthAware Educational Theatre program with the New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) in San Francisco. In 2008 Sara was the recipient of a CBS-5 Jefferson Award for Community Service for her work with YouthAware. Sara has also worked with the Playwrights' Center of Francisco (PCSF) as Producing Director of their Staged Reading series. She has directed plays for Three Wise Monkeys, the San Francisco Young Playwrights Festival, Sleepwalkers Theatre, SF Theater Pub, PCSFs short play festival Sheherezade, the Bay One Acts festival and for Wily West this past season. In March 2012, Sara will direct the SF premiere ofThe Laramie Project: Ten Years Laterfor NCTCs Pride Season. |
| | QUINN WHITAKER (PRODUCING DIRECTOR) Quinn Whitaker began studying theatre design and production at Oakland School of the Arts with a concentration in Lighting Design and Stage Management. She went to Barnard College in New York City where she served as the Lighting Designer and Stage Manager for Columbia University Event Management and the Columbia Musical Theatre Society. While living in New York Quinn worked many shows as a technician, including the International Architectural Lighting Lighting Design Awards and the Ellie Charles Awards. She is now the Production Manager for Wily West Productions with the entire 2010 season under her belt. Quinn works in a variety of capacities for Wily West: as lighting technician, stage manager, lighting designer, prop mistress, and set designer. Quinn is Co-Chair of the Oakland School of the Arts Alumni Association. Last April Quinn served as the Production Manager for SHEHEREZADE, the annual one-act festival for the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco. Quinn is also the lead singer for the band, Redneck Sundays. |  |
|  | MORGAN LUDLOW (GENERAL MANAGING DIRECTOR) Morgan has produced more than 20 productions in the past 15 years. In 2008 he founded Wily West Productions in San Francisco and last year his play RUTH AND THE SEA was listed as one of the of "Best Productions of 2010" by the SF Bay Times. He has served as the Producing Director for the Playwrights Center of San Francisco and currently is the Producing Director for the Pacific Play Company in Seattle. In Salt Lake City, Morgan produced the Belle of Amherst, procuring the McCune Mansion for a 6-week engagement and raised more than $7,000 in revenue to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Morgan was a full-time staff member for the Salt Lake Acting Company (a fully professional Equity theatre devoted to producing new American plays), and he also served as the Producing Director for Plan-B Theatre Company, a cutting-edge theatre troupe that was recently voted Best Theatre Company by Salt Lake City audiences. |
| | WES CAYABYAB (TECHNICAL DIRECTOR) Wes is an EMT by day, golf professional by compulsion, ballroom instructor by night and is also an accomplished actor having most recently performed in several plays for the Wily West New Play Festival and in SHEHEREZADE the annual production put on by the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco. Wes is a full company member of Wily West Productions and has built sets and set up lighting for SAN FRANCISCO STORIES, NYMPH O' MANIA, RUTH AND THE SEA, JUNO EN VICTORIA, PEACHES EN REGALIA and ARRIVEDERCI ROMA. Wes comes to us with an extensive background in the technical theatre arts and has worked for numerous professional theatre companies in the Bay Area. |  |
|  | MELISSA HOWELL (ASSOCIATE MANAGING DIRECTOR) Melissa was 11 when she began writing and fell in love with theatre. Her first play, CRAYONS was produced at age 16 under the tutelage of Ellen Sebastian Chang and performed at SF's Urban High School. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Santa Clara University with a minor in Creative Writing and BA in Theatre & Dance, with professors Erik Ehn and Aldo Billingslea. As an actress, Melissa has appeared in Bay Area theatre productions and indie films including the feature THE THREE MONTH RULE. Her adaptation of Isabel Allende's short story TWO WORDS, was performed for the author on SCU campus in 2003. Melissa had a staged reading of her one-act play cycle THE COCKTAIL PLAYS by Wily West in 2010. |
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