Lisa McNulty (she/her/hers) is an award-winning Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theater producer in her eighth season as the Producing Artistic Director of WP Theater. Lisa comes to WP from Manhattan Theatre Club, where she served as Artistic Line Producer for eight seasons, working on more than 30 productions both on and off Broadway, including plays by Lynn Nottage, Sarah Treem, Harvey Fierstein, and Tarell Alvin McCraney, among many, many others. Lisa has a long history with WP Theater. She was originally hired by the company’s founder, Julia Miles, as the Literary Manager from 1997-2000, where she dramaturged work by María Irene Fornés, Julie Hébert, and Karen Hartman, among others, and in 2004, she returned to WP as its Associate Artistic Director, working on projects with artists including Diane Paulus and Dierdre Murray, Rinne Groff, and Lisa D’Amour. From 2000-2004 she was McCarter Theater’s Producing Associate, and her independent producing career includes projects with Sarah Ruhl, Todd Almond, Lucy Thurber and Lear Debessonet. Lisa’s leadership is underwritten by the BOLD Theater Women’s Leadership Circle, an initiative to support and promote women’s theater leadership funded by The Pussycat Foundation.

Kristin Leahey, Ph.D. is the new play consultant for the WP and an Assistant Professor at Boston University.  She has freelanced as an artist with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, O’Neill Theater Center, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Primary Stages, Classical Stage Company, Playwrights’ Center, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Old Globe, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, American Theatre Company, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Hartford Stage, People’s Light, Ireland’s Galway Arts Festival, Teatro Vista (artistic associate), Steep Theatre (ensemble member), and A Red Orchid Theatre, among others. She holds a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, earned her MA in Theatre from Northwestern University, and her BA in Drama and History from Tufts University. Her publications include articles in Theatre Topics, Journal of American Drama, and New England Theatre Journal, as well as in the anthologies Teaching Performance Practices in Remote, Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy Anthology, and the Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance. Leahey is the Co-Editor of LMDA’s Review and is the Editor for a Special Issues Section of Theatre History Studies on Queer and Transgender Performance and Theatre. She recently completed a research grant from the Harry Ransom Center. She served as the Literary Manager of Wolly Mammoth Theatre, Literary Director of Seattle Rep, and was a producer with the WP 2020-22 Lab. She is a recipient of a Fulbright and will be in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre.

Sofia Ubilla is a South Florida-born, NYC based Costa Rican theatre artist and administrator. Past directing credits include The Amethyst and The Peridot (Fordham University), Aztec Pirates, or the Insignificance of Life on Mars (Chain Theatre), Sweat (SUNY Brockport), Seance, Emperor of 10th Avenue (INTAR Theatre), Saguaros (JACK), The Girls (Dixon Place), Valor, agravio y mujer and Cloud Tectonics (Fordham University). Past assistant and associate directing credits include Dirty Laundry (WP Theatre), we are continuous (Geva Theatre), Los empeños de una casa, La Conducta de la Vida (Repertorio Español), and Somewhere Over the Border (Syracuse Stage). She is currently the BOLD New Play Development Consultant at WP Theatre and she was the Spring 2023 Directing Fellow at Geva Theatre. She has worked on a variety of projects with Bay Street Theatre, AENY, Hedgepig Ensemble, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Latine Musical Theatre Lab and Microteatro Miami. She graduated from Fordham University with a BA in Theatre and Spanish Studies. |www.sofiaubilla.com|