WP Theater
New York City, NY
“WP is thinking in a big way about gender and representation, and is joyfully making space for the stories of gender-marginalized artists Off Broadway and beyond. We have spent 45 years building an extraordinary community of brilliant Women+ artists who are making work and making change throughout this industry.”
— Lisa McNulty
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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.
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Rebecca Martinez (she/her) is a creative producer and a director who focuses on new plays and musicals and uses adaptation to envision classic plays through a contemporary lens. She recently served as the Cohort Collaborations Director for One Nation/One Project, supporting public art and health projects across the U.S. Recent Off-Broadway credits: Public Theater’s Mobile Unit: Much Ado About Nothing; The Comedy of Errors (also co-adapter; Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Adaptation, LATA Awards for Outstanding Adaptation and Theatrical Concept). At WP: Dirty Laundry (WP Theater / Spark Theatricals), Bite Me (WP Theater / Colt Coeur), Sancocho (Latinx Playwrights Circle / Sol Project / WP Theater). Regional projects include: Sancocho (Geva Theater), In Her Bones (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), Living and Breathing (Two River), Somewhere Over the Border (Syracuse Stage & Geva Theatre). Martínez has directed and developed new work with Signature Theatre, the O’Neill, Latinx Playwrights Circle, the Sol Project, NAMT, INTAR, Working Theater, The Playwrights Realm, among others. Affiliations: member of the Obie Award-winning Sol Project Collective, Proud WP Directors Lab Alum, 2021 TCG Rising Leaders of Color, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, INTAR’s Unit52, New Georges Affiliated Artist, Drama League Directing Fellow, member of SDC. Commissions: Artist-in-Residence (Radical Evolution), SEED Directing Commission (Public Theater) Awards: Colorado Henry Award for Directing; four Portland, Oregon Drammy Awards; Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists. rebeccamartinez.org
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Hannah Sgambellone is a director, producer, and production manager. She is the Junior Producer for Fault Line Theatre and recently served as the Associate Production Manager for WP Theater. She was the co-founder and artistic director of The Regular Theatre in Cincinnati, OH, where she produced eight shows and directed five. NYC: The Wasp (Little Engine Theater), Scene Partners (Vineyard), Chornobyldorf (Prototype 2024), Robin & Me (Abingdon Theatre). Tour: Romeo & Juliet/The Three Musketeers, Two Trains Running/Comedy of Errors (The Acting Company 2023, 2025). Producer: the beautiful land i seek (Fault Line Theatre/PRTT 2023/2024), The Bad In Each Other (The Tank/Alex Perez 2024). Love to Kyle.