FRANCINE THOMAS REYNOLDS (Artistic Director) has worked as a professional actress and director for more than 20 years. She has been the artistic director at New Stage Theatre since 2006. Last season she has directed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which received the 2009 Best Play Award from the Jackson Free Press, Boeing Boeing and Breaking Up is Hard to Do.  She has recently appeared as Lucille in Dividing the Estate and as Edna Earle in Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart. She has directed a variety of shows including Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, A Christmas Carol, Gee's Bend, A Raisin in the Sun and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.  Some of her favorite acting roles at New Stage include Chris in Rumors and Belinda in Noises Off. Reynolds has enjoyed adjudicating and serving as commentator for the Mississippi High School Drama Festivals, Poetry Outloud, Southeastern Theatre Conference auditions and Mississippi's English Speaking Union Shakespeare Competition. She has been listed on the Mississippi Arts Commission Artist Demonstrator Roster and developed a one person show about Georgia O'Keefe, which she performed at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Reynolds worked as a locations casting director on several films and commercials shot in Mississippi from 1996 - 2007. The last film she cast, Ballast, won directing and cinematography awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Reynolds enjoys living in Jackson with her husband, Chuck.

DAWN BUCK (Managing Director) began her career at New Stage in the fall of 1981 as a box office assistant.  Since that time she has worked as box office manager, audience services director, house manager, bookkeeper, business manager and marketing director. Her door, she says, is always open to comments and concerns about the theatre.  Buck's other professional credits include The International Ballet Competition, Thalia Mara Arts International presenting the World Performance Series and Imageworks films for business.  She is a graduate of Leadership Jackson and recently served on a grant review panal for the Mississippi Arts Commission.  She and her husband David, live in the Fondren neighborhood and have two sons, Ben and Blake.

BILL MCCARTY III (General Manager) is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and has extensive background in wholesale and retail sales and real estate property management with the Jitney Jungle stores. McCarty has volunteered with New Stage for more than 38 years in all areas including production, running crews, lighting and sound design and New Stage fundraising events. He is involved in the day-to-day management, maintenance and production for the theatre and serves on the Board of Directors.  His favorite design credits are Greater Tuna 1986 production, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gin Game and A Christmas Carol 1984 production.

MELISSA TILLMAN (Marketing Director) is a graduate of Belhaven College where she received a B.A. in technical theatre. Most recently at New Stage, she served as the Audience Services Director. She has worked as a box office associate at Lawlor Events Center in Reno, Nevada and assisted with many box office activities at Belhaven College. Dubinski has stage managed many shows in several parts of the country, including Las Vegas and Tennessee. Her stage managing credits include Oklahoma!, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Wizard of Oz, Taming of the Shrew and Love's Labours Lost. Her most recent work includes Noye's Fludd and La Boheme with the Mississippi Opera. She currently resides in Fondren with her husband, Kyle, and has been with New Stage for five seasons.

CHRIS ROEBUCK (Education Director) graduated from Mississippi College with a B.A. in history. He taught for two years at Madison Central High School, where among other responsibilities he assisted with the Drama Club. Roebuck was an acting intern at New Stage Theatre, working with four other interns to take three touring shows across the state. He also worked for the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, serving as Performance Coordinator/Co-director of the extremely popular and successful R.A.T. (Reject All Tobacco) Pack performances for eight years. Among his numerous professional acting credits, Roebuck has appeared in A Year with Frog and Toad, The Ponder Heart, A Christmas Carol, Idols of the King, Forever Plaid, The Wind in the Willows, A Raisin in the Sun and The Fantasticks. In addition to the education touring shows, his directing credits include Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, A Christmas Carol and Dead Man's Cell Phone at New Stage and American Buffalo and Dinner with Friends with Fondren Theatre Workshop.

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