Sarah Rasmussen took the helm at McCarter in 2020 and is thrilled to carry on its long tradition of championing new voices onstage. Prior to McCarter, Rasmussen was Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis, where in recognition of her leadership she was named Star Tribune’s Artist of the Year. Rasmussen also served as Resident Director for Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab new work development program and Head of MFA Directing at the University of Texas at Austin. She is an alum of the Women’s Project, SoHo Rep., and Lincoln Center Directing Labs. She has directed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Dallas Theater Center, Actors Theater of Louisville, La Jolla Playhouse, and will be bringing McCarter’s Ride the Cyclone to Arena Stage. She has developed new work with Playwrights’ Center, the O’Neill, the Lark, and many others. She was an inaugural recipient of the BOLD Leadership Circle grant and is also the recipient of a Princess Grace Award, an Ivey Award for Overall Excellence, and Drama League and Fulbright fellowships. As a director, she loves inclusive projects that have a sense of humor, sublime visual theatricality and strong roles for women – both onstage and behind the scenes.

Tiger Brown is a director, choreographer, and educator based in New York City. She is currently the BOLD Directing Fellow at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, NJ working as the assistant director on the world premiere musical of “I and You” written by Lauren Gunderson and Ari Afsar, directed by Sarah Rasmussen. She has worked across the US as both a lead creative and associate, as well as a performer on multiple broadway national tours. Recent choreographic and directorial projects include: Ride the Cyclone (Arena Stage + McCarter Co-pro), The Jimmy Awards (Iowa Regional, Des Moines Civic Center/PBS), Matilda (Forestburgh Playhouse), The Lesson (New York Theater Barn).  Recent associate  projects include: Legacy of Light, Choice (McCarter Theater Center), Matilda (Tuacahn Center for the Arts), Rock of Ages (John W. Engeman), Grease (Stages St. Louis). As an educator, Tiger is on dance and musical theater faculty at AMDA and guest faculty at Broadway Dance Center. She teaches master classes and conventions across the US through some of the country’s most prestigious dance competitive circuits. She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch, was part of the SDCF cohort 2018. Upcoming projects include associate directing a workshop of Lighthouse at the Lucille Lortel in October, and associate directing/choreographing the national tour of Miracle on 34th Street this holiday season. 

Website: tiger-brown.com

Instagram/tiktok: @stigerb

In eight seasons at OSF: Producing Assistant, Community; Festival Producer; Director of Repertory Producing; and Lead producer for nine shows in four seasons. Directing: a reading of King Margaret by Tira Palmquist (5 Directors, 5 Plays), Pearl Sings the Blues by Vivia Font (Midnight Project), OSF Presents: Fill in the Blank by Claudia Alick. Other theatres: BOLD Associate Producer and Off Site Season Producer, Alliance Theatre. Directing: the ripple the wave that carried me home (People’s Light Theatre); Breakfast at the Bookstore by Lisa Langford (Ashland New Plays Festival); Shutter Sisters by Mansa Ra (Old Globe); Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck, An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Actor’s Express); Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan, adapted by Theroun D’arcy Patterson with music by Eugene Russell III (Alliance Theatre, Theatre for the Very Young); Eve’s Song by Patricia Ione Lloyd (workshop, The Playwrights Realm); God, Man and Devil by Jacob Gordin (Target Margin Theatre); Pete the Girl by Charity Henson-Ballard (Rising Circle/Culture Project Women’s Center Stage; Jump Jim Crow by Jesse Cameron Alick, music and lyrics by Justin Levine (Subjective Theater Company); Cold Keener by Zora Neale Hurston (Target Margin Theatre). Awards: 2008/2010 Women’s Project Lab. Van Lier Directing Fellow 2009, Second Stage Theatre. Education: MFA, Directing, Brown University/Trinity Rep; BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

Meredith Bartmon is a Casting Professional, Arts Administrator, Dramaturg and Actor proudly based in New Jersey. She’s passionate about creating joyful spaces for artists and supporting the development of contemporary storytellers with an eye toward community, climate change, and women’s health.   

In her role as the BOLD Artistic & Casting Coordinator at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, she supports the incredible team of artists who bring McCarter’s stages to life through casting, event management and artist engagement.  

Before moving to NJ from her home state of Florida, Meredith was part of the Literary and Casting team at Asolo Rep and was the Festival Dramaturg for the Modern Works Fest at Urbanite Theatre. She has over a decade of experience in regional theatre, first as an actor and then as a dramaturg, receiving a Silver Palm Award and a Carbonell nomination for her performance work in both plays and musicals.  

She received her MA in Acting from East 15 Acting School in London and her BFA in Music Theatre from New World School of the Arts in Miami. In her free time, you might find her reading, playing with cats, experimenting with gluten-free cooking, or working on her latest embroidery, knitting or clay-making craft project.