New Georges Appoints Managing Director Jaynie Saunders Tiller

The OBIE Award-winning company New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director; Sarah Cameron Sunde, Associate Director) announces the appointment of Jaynie Saunders Tiller, formerly of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, (A.R.T./New York) as Managing Director of the company. Ms. Tiller officially started in this new position on January 3, 2011.

Jaynie Saunders Tiller previously was the Associate Director of Development for the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York), which is the service and advocacy organization for New York City's not-for-profit theatres. In May 2009 she graduated from Brooklyn College with her M.F.A. in Performing Arts Management. As part of her graduate studies she worked at Brooklyn Academy Of Music, New Dramatists and the Princess Grace Foundation. Before moving to New York, she worked for five years in the artistic office of Dallas Theater Center as the artistic coordinator, local casting director, and co-producer of the Fresh Ink Series, which was comprised of readings and workshop productions focusing on new works. Originally from Houston, Texas, Jaynie holds a B.F.A. in Drama Performance and a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre Performance from The University of Oklahoma.

New Georges' Artistic Director Bernfield said: "Sarah and I are thrilled to welcome Jaynie to our staff. Her presence here will make a tremendous difference as we work to move our organization forward, and she will help us build an institution to match the progress we've made artistically."

New Georges (www.newgeorges.org), the OBIE Award-winning downtown theater company founded in 1992, has included among its productions the following: Emily DeVoti's Milk, Heidi Schreck's Creature; Eisa Davis' Angela's Mixtape; Jenny Schwartz's God's Ear; Wendy Weiner's Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy With a (Somewhat) Happy Ending; Susan Bernfield's Stretch (a fantasia); Sheila Callaghan's Dead City (a winner of the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); Deb Margolin's Three Seconds in the Key (winner of the 2005 Kesselring Prize); Lisa D'Amour's Anna Bella Eema; Jenny Lyn Bader's None of the Above; and Carson Kreitzer's Self Defense, or death of some salesmen.

In addition to producing regular seasons, New Georges is a play and artist development organization, providing essential resources and opportunities to a community of venturesome artists. Two new current initiatives are "The Germ Project" (which has commissioned four affiliated playwrights) and "The Jam" (a working lab for early-career women theater-makers).

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