Alumni

Gabriel is the Marketing Manager at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., leading the multi-channel marketing efforts to engage new and existing patrons at the nation’s foremost classic theatre company. He has worked at The Second City, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, and American Theater Company, where he produced the world premiere of the Tony Award-winning play The Humans. He graduated with Honors from the University of Chicago with a degree in Theater and Performance Studies, and holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration.

Jessica recently completed her MFA in Acting in 2018 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). She acts professionally around the Midwest, most recently in I Now Pronounce with the New Jewish Theatre of St. Louis and in the independent feature film Intoxicated Rain (forthcoming 2020). She works as a corporate communications trainer with Pinnacle Performance Company (teaching folks how to give more effective meetings and presentations by approaching them like performances), and as a Consulting Associate with Morten Group, LLC, focusing on racial equity, diversity, and inclusion work (and drawing directly on her TAPS thesis about white anti-racist identity development). Her most unexpected recent application of her TAPS degree came when she collaborated on alumna Sandra Ruiz’s (AB English ‘99) book Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, 2019), reading the text out loud cover to cover with the author as the backbone of the final editing process.

Gavin Pak (they/them) is an arts manager and artist platforming queer artists of color and centering care in their practice. Their career began in Chicago, where they found their love for new works development, as a playwright and park-and-bark baritone. In their hometown of Los Angeles, Gavin served as Marketing Manager for East West Players, the nation’s longest-running identity-specific theater, where they championed access and community for artists and audiences of color. They founded Pothos Arts & Theater House through which they produced LA’s first all-TGNC musical theater show and the Hantext Writers’ Room & New Works Festival, staging seven new plays all by trans artists of color. Recently, Gavin stewarded strategic planning as the Management Fellow at Regional Theatre Tony Award winner, Paper Mill Playhouse. Gavin is currently a Cody Renard Richard Scholar and Korean Artists Mentor with Seoulful Productions.

Scarlett is a Seoul-born, Los Angeles-based director and artist. Working across disciplines, mediums, and the globe, she uses performance as intimate exchange, survival ritual, and act of revolution. Recent: READY! SET! (Prague Quadrennial), Nomadic Narratives (Heidi Duckler Dance + CultureHub), KASPAR KASPAR (Pasadena Museum of California Art), THE END, THE END, THE END… (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Her work has recently been supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Chilean National Council of Culture & the Arts, Meow Wolf DIY Fund, and La MaMa Umbria Next Generation Incubator. Co-Director of The Mortuary, a laboratory for unclassifiable practices in life and art, where she co-curates the monthly salon, little death. Artistic Associate with CultureHub LA, a global art + technology community. MFA in Directing, CalArts. BA in Theater and Performance Studies & Visual Arts, University of Chicago.