The front porch arts collective Leadership team
Dawn Meredith Simmons
Co-Producing Artistic Director Dawn Meredith Simmons is a director, a playwright and an arts administrator. She has worked with: Actors’ Shakespeare Project, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Greater Boston Stage Company, Bad Habit Productions, Anthem Theatre, Boston Public Works, Lyric Stage Company, New Exhibition Room, Suffolk University, Fresh Ink Theatre, Dorchester Fringe Festival, GAN-e-meed Theatre Project, The Theatre Offensive, Our Place Theatre Project, Mill 6, Actors Refuge Repertory Theatre, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Boston Theatre Works, and As Yet To Be Theatre. Ms. Simmons is Co-Artistic Director of New Exhibition Room and a founding member of the Small Theatre Alliance Boston, and Executive Director of StageSource.
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Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Co-Producing Artistic Director Maurice Emmanuel Parent is an award-winning actor, director, educator and mentor with 20 years of professional experience. He has over 40 acting credits at theatres across the nation and abroad, having performed with some of Boston’s oldest and most respected companies. His work as an actor has earned him two Elliot Norton Awards from The Boston Theater Critics Association, three Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) awards, and an ArtsImpulse Award. Parent’s history as an educator extends back nearly a decade. He’s taught for Northeastern University, MIT, The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and spent nearly 6 years as a Performing Arts Specialist in the Boston Public School System. Currently Parent is a full time Professor of the Practice in the Tufts Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and Visiting Faculty at the Boston University School of Theatre.
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Pascale Florestal
Education Director and Associate Producer
Education Director and Associate Producer
Pascale Florestal is a Director, Educator and Administrator in Boston. She has taught with The Huntington Theatre Company, Company One, Boch Center for Performing Arts and The Eugene O'Neill Center. She has Assistant Directed Bevin O’Gara, Paul Daigneault, Billy Porter and Liesl Tommy. Her directing credits include: Kentucky by Leah Nanako Winkler, Ole White Sugah Daddy by Obehi Janice, An Education in Prudence by Stefan Lanfer, DIASPORA! by Phaedra Michelle Scott and Shrek the Musical at Greater Boston Stage Company. Pascale is also a venue associate at the Boston Center for the Arts and the Boston Project Coordinator with SpeakEasy Stage Company.
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