Jill DeArmon
Artistic Director/Board Jill DeArmon started teaching theater at public elementary schools while she was still attending Baltimore School of the Arts. After studying dance and theater at Philadelphia University of the Arts, she co-founded the theater department of the still thriving Young People's Theatre Company (YPTC) in Maryland where she directed 10 shows in four years. Jill moved to New York City in 1995 and since then she is a proprietor of Center Stage NY, has taught at ps11, Rebels With Applause, and The Lee Strasburg Institute. She was the Managing Director of LAByrinth Theater Company (Artistic Directors: Philip Seymour Hoffman & John Ortiz) from 1999-2002, and she is co-founder of Developing Artists Theater Company. Jill's New York choreography credits include: Stopless (LAByrinth Theater Company), Erin Cressida Wilson's Trail of Her Inner Thigh (LAByrinth), John Patrick Shanley's first musical A Winter Party (LAByrinth Theater Company), A Taste of Honey (Theatre 22), and Vanessa Hidary's Culture Bandit (Nuyorican Poets Cafe). Jill's Producing credits include; LAByrinth Theater Company's Stopless, In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings, and Culture Bandit & Darwaza. Her directing credits include: David Deblinger's Cockamamie Soup, Developing Artists' Runaways, Knee High to a Microphone, We Said Out Loud, These Days, Billy Sleepyhead and LAByrinth Theater Company's The Fairy Tale Project by Webb Wilcoxen. |
Jinn S. Kim
Executive Director/Board Jinn graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Business Administration in 1990. Upon completion, he drove across the country to study Acting and Theater in New York. In 1995, he auditioned and was accepted into LAByrinth Theater Company. In the subsequent years, he was elected as the first official President of the company, where he helped lay the foundation for its current growth and success. He also became involved with Developing Artists, a theater school and company for young adults and The Lobby, a community of poets, musicians and artist that perform and inspire each other in a BI-weekly event. He produced 3 LAByrinth productions: Where's My Money? by John Patrick Shanley, Culture Bandit & Darwaza by Vanessa Hidary & Ajay Naidu and Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Where's My Money? and Our Lady continued its run Off-Broadway and Culture Bandi & Darwaza played at various venues across the country. At the close of 2002, he left his administrative position at LAByrinth to focus his attention on Developing Artists. As an actor for LAByrinth, he appeared in QUEEN LATINA & THE POWER POSSE VS THE EVILS OF SOCIETY by David Anzuelo, RACE, RELIGION & POLITICS by Stephen Adly Guirgis (co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman), DREAMING IN TONGUES written by the cast, A WINTER PARTY by John Patrick Shanley, THE FAIRY TALE PROJECT written by Webb Wilcoxen and directed by Jill DeArmon at the Public Theatre. Other theater credits include DISORIENTED, LOVENESS and the NYIT Award Winner for Best Original Production RISE AND FALL OF A TEENAGE CYBERQUEEN. Film and TV credits include: GRAVESEND, HURRICANE STREET, OZ and LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA, POWER, 11:55 HOLYOKE, THREE GENERATIONS, FEED THE BEAST, JESSICA JONES, GOTHAM, BULL, GOD FRIENDED ME. |
Lianne Becker
Producing Director |
Megan Greener
Programming Director |