THE TEAM
Evan Anderson, Production Manager
Jane Bowles, Bookkeeper
Madison Bounds, Digital Communications
Sarah Katan, Teaching Artist
Erin Krom, Teaching Artist
Lauren Letellier, Press Rep, pr@ancramcenter.org
Chris McCoy, General Manager & Teaching Artist, chris@ancramcenter.org
Jeffrey Mousseau, Director, jeff@ancramcenter.org
Paul Ricciardi, Director, paul@ancramcenter.org
Simone Stevens, Teaching Artist
BIOS
Jeffrey Mousseau (he/him) is a theatre director, producer and educator. For Ancram Center, he has directed Invasion! (Berkshire Theatre Critics Award, Outstanding Ensemble), An Iliad with MaConnia Chesser which was remounted at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA (Berkshire Theatre Critics Award, Outstanding Solo Performance), Homebody by Tony Kushner (Berkshire Theatre Critics Award, Outstanding Solo Performance); Young Jean Lee’s We’re Gonna Die; the American premiere of In Praise of Elephants by Kevin Dyer; a site-specific new work, Performing Olana, on the grounds of Olana, Hudson River School painter Frederic Church’s historic home near Hudson, NY; and two Barbara Wiechmann plays, Aunt Leaf which also toured to Aguascalientes, Mexico, and the premiere of a music-theatre adaptation of The Snow Queen.
Locally, his work has also been seen at Stageworks/Hudson and Hudson Opera House. Other directing credits include The Kennedy Center in Washington, HERE Arts Center in NYC where he is an alum of the HERE Artist Residency Program, numerous productions as founding artistic director of the Elliot & IRNE award-winning Coyote Theatre in Boston, American Southwest Theater, Provincetown Rep, and Florida Studio Theatre.
In addition to his tenure at The Coyote Theatre in Boston, he has served as general manager of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists; curator of the performance series, Start HERE: Innovative Theater for Young People, at HERE, NYC; program director at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NYC; and producing director of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
As a guest artist, he has lectured or directed at Brandeis University, Emerson College, University at Albany and Siena College.
Paul Ricciardi (he/him) is an educator, actor, director, and voice and text coach. He is founding Co-Director of the Ancram Center where, along with Jeffrey Mousseau, he has been overseeing all aspects of programming and production since the Center’s 2016 inaugural season.
Paul is the Creator and Director of Ancram Center’s Real People Real Stories, a program that supports community members in creating and sharing compelling, personal narratives. This approach is also being utilized by the Taconic Hills Elementary School through an innovative storytelling workshop for all 4th, 5th and 6th graders. Offered at the school each fall since 2020, the project has served over 1000 students. Paul is the resident Vocal Coach for Ancram Center, and has coached productions with local, regional and NYC theaters including WAM, Stageworks, America-in-Play, Playhouse Creatures, and countless university theater productions. He is a Designated Linklater Voice teacher, and trained extensively with Kristin Linklater.
Paul earned his MFA in Acting at Trinity Repertory Company where he appeared in the world premiere of Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home, among many other productions in Trinity’s actor training program. Paul has also performed with Provincetown Rep, Speakeasy Stage Company, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, Chester Theatre Company, Proctors Theatre, and Playhouse Creatures, to name a few.
Paul is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Martha Boshen Porter Artist Grant, two PSC-CUNY Research Grants, a Kingsborough Community College President’s Faculty Innovation Award, the Kennedy Center National Teaching Artist Award, and the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion. He is the former Co-Chair of Region 1 of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
Paul is Professor of Theatre Arts at the City University of New York-Kingsborough Community College, where he teaches Acting and Voice, and has also taught at Siena College, Western Connecticut State University, University at Albany, and Rhode Island College.
Lauren Letellier is a playwright, performer, and municipal historian. She has written two critically-acclaimed solo shows: THE VILLAGE CIDIOT, about a dyed-in-the-wool Manhattanite who moves to a tiny upstate town; and THE FIERY SWORD OF JUSTICE, which exposes the hilarious, harrowing similarities between family and corporate dysfunction. She shares the role of Town Historian with her husband Chris Atkins. Together they investigate the nooks and crannies of Hillsdale history to bring people, places, and events to life for a 21st century audience. www.hillsdalehistorians.wordpress.com
Evan Anderson (he/him) is a lighting designer and composer for theatre and dance. For Ancram Center, he has designed Letters From Max, Where The Mountain Meets The Sea and Constellations (Berkshire Critics Circle Nominee). Recent projects elsewhere include: The Cottage, Jekyll & Hyde, The Winter’s Tale (Hartford Stage), Pipe Dream (Berkshire Theatre Group), Symphony of Rats (The Wooster Group), 21st Century Princess (The Collapsable Hole) Not Being Able To Paint (The Brick), I Love That For You (LaMama ETC), The Greatest Story Ever, Blue is the light that doesn’t reach us (Acker Stadt Palast). Before moving to the East Coast, Evan was an active member of the Seattle music community. He continues to release music under his own name. He holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. www.evancanderson.com
Sarah Katan is a seasoned teaching artist from Ancram Center who earned her Ed.M. in Learning & Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has over a decade of experience teaching in formal and informal settings.