Board of Directors
Halina Malinowski PRESIDENT |
Halina Malinowski (MBA, C.P.M.) was elected President of the Board in July 2018. She is a business entrepreneur: owner and operator of Halina’s Antiques and Collectible. Her current endeavor was preceded by 46 years’ experience in the telecommunication industry comprising strategic procurements, manufacturing, engineering, marketing and advertising, project management, and international negotiations. In addition, Halina’s capabilities include over 25 years’ engagement with and for nonprofits as a volunteer, fundraiser, strategy developer, manager, and board member for the Harbor Lights Theater, Polish Children Foundation and Staten Island Philharmonic Orchestra. Halina holds a BA in Art History from Queens College and an MBA from the Executive Program at Wagner College. She holds professional certificates from Harvard Law, School of International Negotiations; MIT Sloan School of Management; Center for Creative Leadership; St. John’s University; and NYU School of Philanthropy. She carries the title of Certified Purchasing Manager as designated by the Institute of Supply Management. Halina joined the Out of the Box board of directors in 2012.
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Lin Snider Vice President |
Lin Snider is a professional director, musical director, singer, actress, and teacher who has performed in cabaret, TV, film, and on stage in regional theaters, Off-Broadway, and in the National Tour of Anything Goes with Mitzi Gaynor. As a director/teacher, she has worked at Yeshiva University, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYU Tisch School, SUNY Purchase, TADA!, the Horace Mann School, the Hackley School, and with several professional companies. She has co-written two children’s musicals, Change Reaction and Heartsong. For Out of the Box she co-directed Separate Tables, 45 Seconds from Broadway, All My Sons, and the fundraising performances This Train Still Runs, It’s a Wonderful Life and Waiting in the Wings and has performed in several of the company’s productions. She has also, among many other projects, directed for Identity Theater and Westchester Collaborative Theater. Lin holds an MFA in Theater form Brooklyn College and an MSW from Columbia University. Lin is a founding member of Out of the Box Theatre Company and has served on its board of directors since 2006.
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Susan Case Secretary & treasurer |
Susan Case is a founding member of Out of the Box Theatre Company and has served on its board of directors since 2006. She has worked with Out of the Box on-stage or off-stage in some capacity for all of its productions. A professional singer/actor, she performed for many years with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, and with the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE!, Light Opera of New York, Opera Northeast, and The Shaw Project, among others. Off-stage, Susan is a freelance copy editor, having worked for many years as the director of sales publications at Sony Music and since 2009 as the program editor for Peak Performances at Montclair State University, NJ. She previously served on the board of the Rivera-Price Music Foundation, which supported performing arts organizations and gave music scholarships in memory of two dear friends who died of AIDS. She holds a BA in Vocal Music from Connecticut College.
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David Edwards ARTISTIC DIRECTOR |
David Edwards made his debut with Out of the Box as director of Fallen Angels. He began his professional career as a child in the Broadway musical The Rothschilds. Broadway and national tour credits include Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s By Jeeves directed by Alan Ayckbourn and The Producers (as both Max Bialystock and Roger Debris) directed by Susan Stroman. Other notable New York credits include starring roles in The Disputation, Ionescopade and the acclaimed revival of Room Service. He was the final “El Gallo” in the original record- breaking production of The Fantasticks and can be seen in the film The Fantastics: Try to Remember. Other film credits include On a Scale, Meshuggah-Nuns and Belly. David has appeared in theaters across the country in leading roles in both plays and musicals from Moliere to Sondheim, most recently in the world premieres of My Lord, What a Night (as Albert Einstein) and The Starmaker (as Henry Willson). Recordings include Other Lives and a solo CD, David Edwards: Giving Voice. As a director, his work had been seen at Florida Rep (The Seafarer), Westchester Broadway Theatre (The Producers), Meadow Brook Theatre, Ivoryton Playhouse (South Pacific, Man of La Mancha) Centenary Stage Company (Bittersuite), Gateway Playhouse, Gretna Theatre, and Surflight Theatre (seven productions). David is a proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and SDC. David earned a B.A. from New York University School of the Arts, and studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute as an undergraduate.
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Gloria Sauvé BOARD MEMBER |
Gloria Sauvé performed with Out of the Box with Deep Are the Roots, Rain and Hello Out There. She started her career in Toronto, Canada, and has performed nationally and internationally. Her performing credits include Broadway (Comin’ Uptown); Off-Broadway and regional (Deep Are the Roots, The Book of Lambert, Having Our Say, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Big River, and Medea); film and TV credits including August the First, Preacher’s Wife, Lean on Me, The 22 (TV pilot produced by Robert De Niro), Damages, Nurse Jackie, Lipstick Jungle, Now and Again, Law and Order, as well as the Emmy-winning HBO mini-series The Corner; numerous commercials, magazine prints, and radio and TV voice-overs. Gloria studied acting with Lee Strasberg at the Lee Strasberg Institute. She joined the Out of the Box board of directors in 2015.
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Jennifer Sherron Stock BOARD MEMBER |
Jennifer Sherron Stock joins Out of the Box Theatre Company’s board of directors with a rich and varied background in education and theatre. She has taught in the City University system since 1996 and at City College itself for the past 20 years. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from William Smith College and her master’s degree in theatre from Hunter College where she was a recipient of the Harold Clurman Scholarship. She took thirty credits beyond the master’s at the CUNY Graduate Center and study abroad at Balliol College in Oxford, the London Central School of Speech and Drama, and the National Theatre. From 1993 to 1995 she served as the artistic director of the Lucille Ball Little Theatre, and she was a board member of the American Association of University Women’s New York Branch from 1997 to 1999, also serving as head of their Drama Program. A member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), IATSE LOCAL 306, and PSC-CUNY, she is a professional director, actor, playwright, and educator who works all across the continental United States as well as in Alaska and China. All-time favorite directing credits include Lend Me a Tenor for the All College Theatre at the State College of New Jersey, Proof for the Sheboygan Theatre Company, and Noises Off at the Duluth Playhouse. Favorite acting credits include Countess Aurelia in the Madwoman of Chaillot and Rosemary Sydney in Picnic, both for the Berea College Repertory Theatre Festival. Jennifer made her debut with OotB directing Morning’s at Seven. She joined the Out of the Box board of directors in 2019 and hopes to help OotB thrive.
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Bob Johnson BOARD member |
Bob Johnson (B.A., M.F.A.) is a published and produced playwright, published photographer and journalist. He spent the majority of his career working in non-profit communications with areas of expertise that include theater, higher education, music, dance and religion. One of his musicals (co-author/book & lyrics), Oedipus! A New Musical Comedy, received the Jim Henson Award for Projects Related to Puppetry, received an artistic achievement citation from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival and is published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals. Some of his plays for young audiences (Attack of the Vampire Pigs, Snow White & the Magic Go-Go Boots, Mother Duck & the Golden Goose, The Little Mermaid and The Wicked Prince) are published by Drama Notebook. He also wrote the dialogue to an opera based on the O.J. Simpson trial with composer Anthony Newman. He currently works for Google Public Sector.
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James Harter Advisory board |
James Harter was born in Bryan, Ohio, but grew up in London, England. He joined the U.S.Navy at age 17 and served on one of the last World War 2–era diesel submarines for three years, which included two tours of the Far East. He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse, earning a BA degree, then came to New York to pursue an acting career, becoming a member of Actor’s Equity and SAG-AFTRA in the late 1970s. A series of temporary office jobs led to a two-year stint at Time-Life Films, after which he was hired as Director of Play Development at Paramount Pictures, a job he held for three years until Paramount shut down its Theater Division. At that point, Jim passed the Series 7 exam and worked as a stockbroker at E.F. Hutton for a year. For two years, Jim was artistic director of The Separate Theater Company, based at the Jan Hus Church on East 74th Street. Following this, he was artistic director of The American Shakespeare Project, which produced several audiotapes of Shakespeare plays. Jim has directed several plays, including The Seagull, Twelfth Night, and Arms and the Man. As an actor, he has appeared in many plays, both modern and classical, including a dozen by Shakespeare. He has been involved with Out of the Box Theatre Company since 2013 and was honored to be asked to join their advisory committee in 2020. After being cast as The Major in Separate Tables, Jim appeared in half a dozen plays with OotB and strongly supports their mission of producing plays that provide good roles for actors who are over 50.
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Jeffrey V. Thompson Advisory board |
Jeffery V. Thompson recently directed productions of Sarah Sings a Love Story (Crossroads Theatre Co.); My Harlem, ’Tis Of Thee (Aaron Davis Hall); Ice Out: Shackled and Chained (National Black Theatre); and Shot: Caught a Soul (Pulitzer Center). National directing credits include The King and Me, starring Emmy award–winner Keith David; Paul Robeson, starring Tony award–winner Chuck Cooper; The Shaneequa Chronicles, starring Stephanie Berry; Welcome Home, Marian Anderson, starring Vanessa Shaw; Gorilla, My Love (Lincoln Center Institute); Coriolanus (Take Wing and Soar); and The Souls of Black Folks: A Centennial Celebration, starring Danny Glover, Phylicia Rashad, Geoffrey Wright, Nora Cole, Peter Jay Fernandez, and Keith David. As an actor, Mr. Thompson has appeared in critically acclaimed productions On and Off-Broadway and in regional theaters across the United States. His scripts have been produced on Broadway as well as at theaters in New Jersey; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Florida; Arkansas; and Ohio. |
Tony Javed Advisory board |
Tony Javed is, among other things, an actor who has performed in Out of the Box's productions of Fallen Angels and The Butter & Egg Man. Career highlights include work as a digital strategist, supporting organizations such as American Lung Association, JDRF and Autism Speaks. He enjoys improving communications practices, leading mission-critical teams and driving organizational initiatives. His success in these areas is undergirded by earning stakeholder buy-in and confidence through keen listening and meeting facilitation. |