Staff and Board
Our Staff
Artistic Director
Ari Laura Kreith
Artistic Director
Contact: ari.laura.kreith@lunastage.org
Ari Laura Kreith is the Artistic Director of Luna Stage, where she recently directed Jenny Lyn Bader's 'Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library,' Gabriel Jason Dean’s 'Heartland' and J.Stephen Brantley’s 'Pirira.' She conceived and is currently co-creating Luna's 'Voting Writes Project' click to see more
Joey Yow
Managing Director
Contact: joey.yow@lunastage.org
Joey Yow is an educator, theatre practitioner, and filmmaker. A teacher at Newark Academy in Livingston, NJ, Joey leads the Technical Theatre and Film programs and is highly involved in community service and student leadership. click to see more
Luna Staff
Turron Kofi Alleyne
Director of Community Engagement
Turron Kofi Alleyne has worked with some of Hollywood’s most esteemed A-List directors, producers, and actors such as: Spike Lee, Jonathan Nolan, Mark Wahlberg, Zoe Saldana, Michael B. Jordan, Lawrence Fishburne, and others. click to see more
Liz Cesario
Production Manager
Contact: liz.cesario@lunastage.org
Liz Cesario is celebrating her 10th season as Luna’s Production Manager. She is also an Equity stage manager, and has worked in many areas of theatre, including opera, straight plays, comedies, and children’s shows. Liz has experience managing click to see more
Ann Coughlin
Office Administrator
Ann Coughlin has fifty plus years’ experience in arts administration, as the Executive Secretary to the Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as the Executive Assistant to the owner of the Herbert Barrett Management, click to see more
Annika Franklin
Company Administrator
Contact: annika.franklin@lunastage.org
Annika is a writer and performer from New York State. She has been featured on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Cinemax’s The Knick. Writing credits include the short film Not Cool (LA Indie Film Fest, SoHo Short Film Fest), in which she also starred, click to see more
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Marketing Associate
Contact: kaelamgarvin@gmail.com
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin is a writer, producer, and marketing specialist. Kaela’s a founding member of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based incubator of new and developing interdisciplinary art. Kaela is a 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival click to see more
Holly Lehren
Artistic Associate
Contact: holly.lehren@lunastage.org
Holly Lehren graduated with honors in 2019 from Muhlenberg College, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Theatre with a concentration in Directing. She co-founded Muhlenberg's premier Drag Troupe in 2017 click to see more
Danielle Stecki
Graphic Designer
Danielle Stecki is a Graphic Designer and Visual Artist. Danielle began practicing Art at a young age and possesses over ten years of professional experience in the Realism style. She creates in the forms of drawing, painting and crochet. click to see more
Founder
Jane Mandel
Founder & Artistic Director Emeritus
Jane Mandel is the Founding Artistic Director and served as AD for over twenty years. With her guidance, Luna Stage earned a reputation for producing excellent, intelligent, and provocative theatre, where scores of new and classic plays are click to see more
Luna Interns
Alana Garcia
Alana Garcia is a senior at New Jersey Institute of Technology studying both communications and theatre. She works for the Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Department as an assistant videographer and has been part of click to see more
Lily Greenberg
Lily Greenberg is honored to be co-directing this project at Luna Stage. She has recently worked with Shakespeare in the Square as Guildenstern/Osric in Hamlet, and with Uproar Theatre Corps as Larissa in Gallathea. click to see more
Dillon Mitcham
Dillon Mitcham (he/him) is a freelance theatre artist who has worked in New York, Maryland, and the vast virtual landscape. After receiving his Bachelors in Directing at Marymount Manhattan College, he focused his discipline click to see more
Alexander Oleksy
Alexander Oleksy is an NYC based director and teaching artist originally from The Woodlands, TX. Currently studying Educational Theatre at NYU Steinhardt, Alex has focused on developing new works and helping young audiences click to see more