Voices FESTIVAL ASSOCIATES

Christine Davis is a retired attorney, who practiced law for over 30 years with GAO, a legislative branch agency. In retirement, she is pursuing a long deferred dream of being part of a theater company. As an Iranian-American, she is thrilled to be part of Voices Festival Productions, whose artistic goals of stimulating debate and fostering new ways of thinking about community mesh exactly with her own personal goals.  

Christine Davis

Fesitval Company Manager, 2022

Adam Ashraf Elsayigh

Production Dramaturg/Cultural Consultant - CALAMITOUS AFFAIR

Adam Ashraf Elsayigh (he/him) is an Egyptian writer, theater maker, and dramaturg who writes and develops plays that interrogate the intersections of queerness, immigration, and colonialism. Adam’s plays (including Drowning in Cairo, Revelation, Memorial, and Jamestown/ Williamsburg) have been developed and seen at New York Theater Workshop, The Lark, The Tisch School of the Arts, The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, and Golden Thread Productions. Adam holds a BA in Theater with an emphasis in Playwriting and Dramaturgy from NYU Abu Dhabi and is an MFA Candidate in Playwriting at Brooklyn College. 

Keta Newborn

2022 Festival Production Manager
& Stage Manager – APOLOGIES

Keta Newborn (she/her) is an ambitious, tenderhearted, and compassionate poet, self-published author, and mother of two daughters. Keta entered the world of theatre in 2006 after spending the previous 12 years as a computer engineer. From 2006 until 2018, Keta focused primarily on becoming a household name within the arts industry as a freelance artist.Keta's current title is that of a Production Manager. To learn more about Keta and her work, please visit www.ketanewborn.com

Marvin Brown

Associate General Manager - 2023-24

& House Manager - LETTERS/DANDELION

Marvin Brown (he/him) is a thespian, director, writer, and recording artist with ambitions to use the Arts as a tool for political education for the African diaspora and other subordinate groups in western civilization. At Towson University, where he received a Bachelors in Public Relations, Marvin founded the Black Theatre Troupe. The organization was designed to be a permanent space for black students with passion for the arts to use their talents for political education of other black students and the surrounding black community in Baltimore. Marvin currently works in Arts Administration and Theatre in the DMV metropolitan to continue his studies in Theatre, Business, and Black Studies.

Anthony Amos

Sound Engineering, Design & Videographer

Anthony K. Amos (he/him) is the founder and director of SKIES THE LIMIT Entertainment, a company that uses music, art and media to entertain, educate, inspire, and elevate voices that are often marginalized, with the goal to bring people together. Anthony has over 20 years of experience providing freelance videography, video editing and production, DJ/VJ, and audio support work in DC, Virginia, and elsewhere. As a DJ/VJ, Anthony has shared his talent in venues all across the country, including the Kennedy Center and Arena Stage, and on stages with Kanye West, Kirk Franklin, and Canton Jones. He has recorded, edited, and/or provided audio support for live sports events through Monumental Sports, University of VA, JMU, W&M, UMD, Georgetown, George Washington, and George Mason Universities. He has provided projection, video, and audio support for Sitar Arts Center and Young Playwright's Theatre.

Debbie Minter Jackson

Literary & Dramaturgical
Associate

Debbie Minter Jackson (she/her) is a native Chicagoan having performed in community and cabaret musical theater over thirty years throughout the Midwest and the South. In addition to having scripts commissioned and produced, Debbie’s reviews are archived as a founding writer of D.C. Theatre Scene (closed in 2020), is a member of the Black Women Playwrights’ Group and on the Board of Footlights, a play reading and discussion group as well as the Lincoln Group of D.C.

Anna Marquardt

Costume Designer

Anna Marquardt (she/her) is a costume designer, songwriter, and performer (sometimes simultaneously). Most recently, she designed costumes for Newsies with The Arlington Players. Previously, she designed the costumes for The Arlington Players' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and designed and constructed five beautifully hideous (or maybe hideously beautiful?) dresses for Five Women Wearing the Same Dress with Dominion Stage. Other DC-area costume design credits include Suddenly Last Summer (Avant Bard) and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (DS). She recently documented every outfit she wore to her 6 months serving grand jury duty on her Instagram (@ajlobster). annamarquardt.com

David Elias

Production Stage Manager

David Elias (Production Stage Manager) returns to VFP after stage managing last autumn's Home, and this spring's readings of Ukrainians Under Siege II. He formerly worked with Ari Roth as Production Manager and Stage Manager at Theater J, and with Lorraine Robinson on the business side of things at Arena Stage. David has appeared on the boards and in the booth for Imagination Stage, Spooky Action Theatre, Theater J, Wayside Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Bay Theatre, Metrostage, Theater of the First Amendment (and George Mason University), and the Alliance for New Music-Theatre (both in DC and in Prague), among others. He teaches Voice, and Acting courses at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, and has lectured on building a character at O Universidade de Natal in Brazil. His next job, this fall, is returning to the Edge Of the Universe theater to stage manage Pinter's The Caretaker.

Alistair Edwards

Sound Designer

Alistair Edwards (he/him) is a sound designer, musician, and composer. He recently graduated cum laude from Amherst College, with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Theater. For his senior project, he wrote, directed, and produced a radio play, called Boundless. He has also worked on productions such as Medea and Gossamer, as well as experimental dance projects such as Endogenous. He is very excited to be working with Voices Festival Productions and hopes that you enjoy the show. 

Emily Beloate

Producing Associate/ASM

Emily Beloate (she/her) is originally from Seattle, WA, and holds a B.A in Theatre from Whitworth University and an M.A. in Contemporary Theatre, Dance, and Dramaturgy from Utrecht University. She has explored work in production, devising, directing, and choreography all over the country: in the Bay Area, working with Epic Immersive to produce immersive dance/theatre performances, and in Memphis, TN, working in Live Entertainment for the Memphis Grizzlies. Now, having settled in Washington, DC (as of July), she’s so excited to get to know the theatre community and experience everything this city has to offer!

Garth has spent over thirty years working in theater, dance and special event production as a head electrician, head carpenter, production manager, stage manager and lighting designer.  Garth has been the lighting designer for 10 productions at Theater J over the years and is excited to be working on #Charlottesville for the Capitol Fringe Festival.