Stephanie Norman (Executive Director)

Stephanie Norman has been collaborating with the nation’s finest established and emerging artists as an actor, director and producer for the past 18 years. As a cofounder of City Theatre, she worked with colleagues to conceive the completely unique Summer Shorts Festival, one of the nation’s premier forums for developing new work. She has performed in the ’96 and ’97 Rep Companies, directed twelve Festival Mainstage productions and works year-round with City Theatre’s staff and board to design groundbreaking outreach programs, foster a wealth of institutional support and craft a seamless signature event lauded by artists and audiences alike.

Stephanie began her career with Broadway producers Manny Azenberg and Marvin Krauss, gaining company management experience on the Broadway productions of Broadway Bound, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Dreamgirls and La Cage aux Folles. She worked in film production as production assistant to Mike Nichols on “The Birdcage”. As an actress, Stephanie has over 50 national and regional commercial credits, hosted two television series for CNBC, and performed with Chicago’s Second City, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and regional theatres in Chicago and South Florida.

A graduate of Duke University, Stephanie has served on the board of the Ft. Lauderdale Children’s Theatre, is past-president of the Duke Alumni Association of South Florida and is a founding board member of Theatre League of South Florida. Stephanie’s proudest productions are her three children – her inspiring collaborators in launching a new children’s book, Perfectly Me!, in 2008.

Stuart Meltzer (Artistic Director)

stuart@citytheatre.com

Stuart Meltzer received his M.F.A. in Directing from the Actors Studio in 2002. New York credits include Romulus Linney’s Gint, Harold Pinter’s One for the Road, Aristaphanes’ Lysistrata, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls, as well as Morzek’s Striptease. Upon his return to South Florida from where Stuart was raised, he was Head of Theatre at Gulliver Preparatory and most recently part of the Full Time Faculty at New World School of the Arts/University of Florida. This past year at New World Stuart directed Weiss’ Marat/Sade and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America staged at The Colony Theatre. Stuart has been working as a freelance director and has directed more than thirty productions since 2002. Recent South Florida credits include four years as part of the directing ensemble City Theatre’s Summer Shorts (where he directed the plays from Paul Rudnick, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Rich Orloff among others), Everything Will be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Painted Alice, Barefoot Boy With Shoes On, Cowboy Mouth, Boston Marriage, Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends, The Philanthropist, The Fever and Godspell. As a playwright, Stuart has written Better than Damn Good, I Love you Forever and And the Moonlight Sonata. Stuart was the Artistic Director of Trap Door Theatre in Miami from 1995- 2003. As an actor Stuart was in Michael McKeever’s world premier of Melt at New Theatre.

Marco Ramirez (Literary Manager)

marco@citytheatre.com

Marco Ramirez is a Miami native and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (BFA, Dramatic Writing). His plays have been produced at the New York Int’l Fringe Festival, City Theatre, The Hippodrome State Theater, Mad Cat Theatre Company, the Juilliard Blackbox, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He got his start with City Theatre’s KidShorts Program, where his work was read and developed two years consecutively. His play Pipo and Fufo: 1969 was produced at CityTheatre’s Summer Shorts, and was published the following year. He is the two-time winner of the Latino Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center’s ACT Festival (2004 & 2005). In 2006, he received a fellowship from the O’Neill Theatre Center and a commission from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Most recently, his short play I am not Batman received the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival.

City Theatre was founded in 1996 by Stephanie Norman, Susi Westfall & Elena Wohl. The company’s first Artistic Director was Gail Garrisan. Since that time, City Theatre has continued to bring the region’s finest arts professionals together in a most creative and collaborative endeavor.