Staff
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Rebecca O'Neil (she/her)
Artistic Director
Rebecca O’Neil is a Seattle-based actor with a passion for equity in the theatre and a profound interest in using the theatre to tell stories about all kinds of people, at all the intersections in their lives. A 2019 of the MFA Arts Leadership program at Seattle University, she applied her classroom work to the development of The Shattered Glass Project. Rebecca is the president of the Theater Puget Sound board of directors for 2023 and previously served as treasurer. She has an MFA in Acting (University of Portland); an MA in Teaching (Willamette University), and a BA in Dramatic Arts (Mills College). She is the proud mother of Jade, Gemma and Rafferty, and grandmother of Leila. Peter: I couldn’t do this without you.
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Carolynne Wilcox (she/they)
Social Media Manager & Newsletter Editor
Carolynne Wilcox is a Seattle-based actor and playwright whose plays have been produced both locally and regionally, including virtual productions of Loom and A Series of Small Cataclysms (co-written with Jen Smith Anderson and also produced IRL pre-pandemic) and both in-person iterations of Through The Window with TSGP. Favorite recent roles include Manuel in Miss You Like Hell with Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Adele in In the Time of the Butterflies at Book-It Rep, and Ana in The Book Club Play at Village Theatre. Caro is an Associated artist with The Shattered Glass Project.
Board of directors
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Kristina Washburn (she/her)
Executive Committee
Kristina holds a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. After graduation, she spent a summer at the New Actors Workshop in New York City, and since then worked in marketing and public relations at Seattle’s ACT and Intiman Theatre. (You may have heard her as the voice of Tiny Tim in radio ads for ACT’s production of A Christmas Carol.) She has served as Fundraising Chair and PTSA President and Vice-President for both Capitol Hill Co-op Preschool and Madrona Elementary. She looks forward to working with The Shattered Glass Project because she believes theatre is the most present, dynamic, human form of storytelling, and it is past time to lift up the voices that have been silenced.
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Buddy Todd (they/them)
Executive Committee
Buddy Todd has acted, directed, and choreographed throughout the Seattle region with organizations such as Pork Filled Productions, Pacific Play Company, Renton Civic, Theatre 9/12, Bainbridge Performing Arts, Edmonds College, Snoqualmie Falls Forest Theatre, FantasticZ, and more. Buddy is also a teaching artist with Studio East and Seattle Children's Theatre.
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Cara Thomas (she/her)
Executive Committee
Cara is a Seattle area actor who honors her experience being a part of the Shattered Glass Project theatre company (TSGP) programs. As a member of one of many marginalized community groups, Cara appreciates the essential work TSGP contributes to the community. She believes in and supports TSGP’s mission, and she looks forward to adding her unique perspective to furthering the company’s prominence in the community. Cara’s has had the pleasure of serving as Secretary and Vice President of Education for Toastmaster’s International, and as the Membership Coordinator with the Northwest Christian Writer’s Association This has prepared her with the organizing, networking, planning and other functions needed to assist in the continued success of The Shattered Glass Program.
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Emily Stone (she/her)
Emily Stone is an artist, teacher, and community activist who loves striving to make art that is activism. Most recent original projects, solo show Their Eyes Get Big and duet A Lonely Realization, explored institutional and individual responses to sex and gender based violence. That theater can be a space for sharing joy, abundance, and truth is what brings her back again and again! In Seattle, Emily has performed at the University of Washington, On The Boards, Macha Theatre Works, and workshopped her original show with The Shattered Glass Project. She is thrilled to be a teaching artist at the Seattle Children’s Theatre and the Seattle Repertory Theatre. Emily holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Washington and a BS in Molecular and Environmental Biology from UC Berkeley. Her other passions include building supportive community ties with unhoused neighbors, community organizing in general, book clubs, local history, house plants, hiking, and whales.
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Samantha Anderson
2021 Incubator/Mentor Program Artistic Advisory Review Committee
The Advisory Review Committee offered insight, feedback, and recommendations for the development of the Incubator/Mentor Program. Our gratitude for their time and wisdom.
This is a partial list of the folks who shared their wisdom and experience with us.
Shana Bestock, Artistic Director, Penguin Productions
Alma Davenport, Producing Director, Brown Soul Productions; Playwright, Director
Roxy Hornbeck, Artist; Assistant Professor in Performing Arts and Arts Leadership, Seattle University
Rosa Joshi, Director; Professor, Performing and Visual Arts, Seattle University
Cristin Miller, Managing Director, Seattle Public Theater; Actor, Teacher, Director
Myra Platt, Founding Co-Artistic Director Emeritus, Book-it Theater
Vahishta Vafadari, Actor/Teaching Artist
Carolynne Wilcox, Actor/Playwright/Producer