| EXIT Theatre Board of Directors | ||
Geoffrey Link, President Frank Aflague Christina Augello |
Chris Barnett Stephen Cornell Steven Lieberman |
Richard Livingston Carmen White |
EXIT Theatre Key Staff |
Christina Augello is the founder and artistic director of EXIT Theatre and is an actress, arts activist and arts administrator. She has been involved with American theater for over 50 years, growing up in the 1950s as the daughter of the proprietor of a famous theater saloon and piano bar in the theater district of downtown Buffalo. In the 1960s she performed in high school theater, CYO competition plays and avant garde storefront theater in her hometown before hitch hiking cross country to San Francisco. There she founded several cooperative and women owned businesses in the Haight Ashbury while pursuing acting. In the 1970s she performed at the original Intersection for the Arts in North Beach, the first ever theatrical production at Theatre Artaud, at the Oakland Ensemble Theatre, at the Poverty Theatre and other venues. She has studied acting with Wendell Phillips, Eric Morris, Stephanie Priest and Phillip Pernaud. In 1983 she founded EXIT Theatre, in 1992 she founded the San Francisco Fringe Festival, in 2002 she founded DIVAfest and in 2007 she co-founded FRIGID New York. She was appointed by the Board of Supervisors as the small arts representative to the San Francisco Cultural Affairs Task Force, served on Theatre Bay Area's Board of Directors and Executive Committee and was honored as Working Women of the Year. She has performed as part of various ensembles and toured her one-women shows around the world, including performances in Prague, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Victoria, Edinburgh, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. She has dedicated her life to creating and supporting small independent theater. Richard Livingston is the managing director of EXIT Theatre. For 40 years he has directed non-profit organizations in the Bay Area including in the 1960s the pioneer youth organization Huckleberry House, in the 1970s the ex-offender organization Reality House West -- where he co-curated the first California statewide exhibit of prisoner art -- and in the 1980s he was a fellow at the San Francisco Foundation. He was appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the San Francisco Citizens Advisory Committee on Open Space, which he co-chaired, and for 20 years was also the executive director of the Fitschen Charitable Trust, a small foundation providing grants to senior serving organizations. In the Tenderloin he helped found many housing, advocacy and refugee organizations for which he received the Daniel Koshland Civic Unity Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Since 1983 he has been managing director of EXIT Theatre, responsible for its administration. Amanda Ortmayer is the production manager of EXIT Theatre and the San Francisco Fringe Festival. She is a graduate of the Sonoma State theater department and has designed for various theatrical productions and festivals in Sonoma County and San Francisco. EXIT Theatre Contact Information EXIT Theatre
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