Since 2013, Dunne and her team have overseen the $9.2 million Campaign for Northern Stage, which culminated in the opening of the theater’s new home, the state-of-the-art Barrette Center for the Arts. During Carol’s tenure, she has introduced the development of new plays to the Northern Stage repertoire, overseen the creation of an expansive educational program including the “Youth Ensemble Studio” and “BridgeUP: Shakespeare and Musical Theater in the Schools.” She has also developed a formal relationship with Dartmouth College through the Experiential Term for Dartmouth students. Carol and her team have expanded Northern Stage programming to a year round calendar with the sold out Summer Musical Theater Intensive and the new Summer Shakespeare Intensive.

In 2017 Carol was granted the Helen Gurley Brown Pussycat Foundation Genius Award. With the Pussycat Foundation, she created and serves as director of the BOLD Theater Women’s Leadership Circle. Other awards are the Leadership Upper Valley’s Heroes and Leaders: Mentors award (2016) and the New Hampshire Professional Theater Award for Best Director of a Musical for Pirates of Penzance (2010.)

Mandi is thrilled to officially be a part of the Northern Stage family! After serving as Assistant Director/ Child Guardian on our production of ‘A Christmas Carol’ in 2023, she rejoins us as the Helen Gurley Brown BOLD Artistic and Education Fellow. Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago, she has been involved in the arts for most of her life- from show choir to stick fighting and Ole Mas. Mandi holds a BA in Theatre and Dance from Trinity College and has fostered her passion for theatre education and outreach through internships at Hartford Stage and Westport Country Playhouse. Mandi has experience acting, stage managing and directing, and is excited to engage in new artistic challenges as part of her BOLD fellowship.

Sarah Elizabeth Wansley directs and develops new plays and musicals, as well as highly theatrical adaptations of classic works. Previously she was the Artistic Producer at Chautauqua Theater Company and the inaugural recipient of the Cleveland Play House Artistic Directing Fellowship for Women. Recent directing projects The Amish Project by Jessica Dickey at PlayMakers Repertory Company, Egress by Melissa Crespo and Sarah Saltwick at Cleveland Play House, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch at Dobama Theatre, The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe at SUNY Purchase and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Chautauqua Theater Company. She has directed new work at New York Stage and Film, The Flea Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, White Heron Theatre, and Pipeline Theatre Company. Sarah is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a 2018 Drama League Resident Artist, a 2015 Drama League Directing Fellow, and a member of the 2011 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Sarah received her MFA in Directing from UCSD; from 2016-2020 she was a faculty member at Fordham University. Upcoming: Heisenberg by Simon Stephens at Northern Stage.

Brandy (Yijin) Zhang (she/her) is thrilled to be joining Northern Stage and the BOLD Circle as a recent graduate and an aspiring arts administrator from Shenzhen, China. Arriving in the US for school nearly a decade ago, she has developed a profound appreciation for theatre in her production work, primarily through stage management and design. Dartmouth College/Hopkins Center Credits: World Premiere of Alisya Reza’s Ethically Ambiguous (Lighting Designer); RENT (Stage Manager); Workshop of Piper Hill’s A Show That Is a Game and Is Also a Party and Is Also an Elaborate PowerPoint Presentation (Stage Manager/Pianist); The Living (ASM); The Sweet Science of Bruising, Eclipsed (Light Board Operator). Brandy graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Music and Psychology in June, 2022.