Our Mission

Playhouse Theatre Group, Inc. at Playhouse on Park has a mission to:

• provide quality entertainment at affordable costs to as broad an audience as possible
• embrace and provide opportunity for professional, emerging and community artists
• offer educational and outreach opportunities through visiting and/or resident artists and educators
• create and/or explore opportunities to collaborate with other existing arts organizations
• be fiscally responsible and accountable at all times
• continue to be an integral member of the West Hartford community

OFFICERS

Rebecca Selig - President
Andrew Lattimer - Treasurer
Susan Miller - Secretary

BOARD MEMBERS

Matthew Bragg
Douglas Cohen
Virginia de Lima -co chair of IDEA committee
Joanna Engel
Keirsten Estabrooks
Peter Evans
William Fish
Linda Goodman
Clare Kindall
Andy Lieberman
Ryan McBride
Annie Scott
Noreen Shugrue
Vin Sukhraj
Betsy Udal

Board Member Emeritus

Matthew Bragg
Chuck Coursey, Founding VP
Nina Elgo
Kathy Frederick
Bonnie Gauthier
Carol McCabe
Margaret Rattigan
Julianne Roth
Robert Rowlson*
Ron Roy
Richard Rubenstein
Robert Slifka
Ruth Van Winkle
David Wurzer, Founding President

*deceased

TRACY FLATER, Co-Founder, Executive Director [email Tracy]
After an extensive career in the for-profit restaurant business, Tracy merged her passion for the performing arts and knowledge of business management to become an arts administrator in the non-profit sector. Tracy co-founded Playhouse Theatre Group, Inc., a not-for-profit professional theatre company in May of 2009 along with Sean Harris and Darlene Zoller. She serves as co-founder and Executive Director for Playhouse Theatre Group, Inc. Just prior to this, she spent four years (2004 - 2009) serving as Director of Off Campus Programs and Facilities for The Hartt School Community Division of the University of Hartford. In addition to her work at Playhouse Theatre Group, Inc., Tracy currently serves as Co-President of The Park Road Association.

DARLENE ZOLLER, Co-Founder, Co-Artistic Director [email Darlene]
Darlene is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Playhouse on Park where she has directed PIN-UP GIRLS,  PIPPIN, NUNSENSE, CHICAGO (Best Director of a Musical/Broadway World,) PINKALICIOUS, ELEPHANT AND PIGGIE, SWINGING ON A STAR and THAT HOLIDAY FEELING, SAY THINGS FUNNY, and choreographed; PIPPIN, INTO THE WOODS, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, IN THE HEIGHTS, A CHORUS LINE, HAIR, CABARET, PASSING STRANGE among others. She is the founder, director and choreographer of stop/time dance theater, the resident dance company of Playhouse on Park.  She was voted Best Director of a Musical/Broadway World for I’D RATHER BE DANCING. CT Critics Circle nominee for Best Choreographer for HAIR, ROCKIN’ THE FOREST and IN THE HEIGHTS. She IS Mama D of MAMA D’s OUTRAGEOUS ROMP; a grown ups only music, dance and comedy event-exclusive to the Playhouse. Social media followers know her as "the driveway lady" for having taught 450 consecutive days of WE'RE BETTER WHEN WE'RE DANCING dance classes online during the pandemic where she gathered a loyal following. Darlene is an adjunct professor at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School where she directed and choreographed CHICAGO and did the choreography for GUYS AND DOLLS, ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, SMILE, CURTAINS and NUNSENSE. She also teaches dance classes for adults for the Playhouse Theatre Academy at The 224 ECOSpace and Simsmore Square and is a dance/fitness instructor at Big Sky Fitness in Vernon.