Who Drives this Crazy Train?

Jeni mahoney
PRODUCING Artistic director

Jeni is a playwright, director, dramaturg, teacher and all around development geek. Her play Fata Morgana was the recipient of an NEA ArtWorks Grant, premiered at Boise Contemporary Theater and was selected as an Honorable Mention on the 2015 Kilroy List. Her plays have been presented at the National Playwrights Conference, InterAct Theater, Source Theater, L.A. Theater Center, MidWest New Play Festival, The Lark, Rattlestick, And Toto Too, Circus Theatricals and London's Greenwich Playhouse among others. Jeni likes to write and talk about play development whenever she can find a platform to do so. She is a member of Dramatists Guild and Secretary of the National Theater Conference.
More at jenimahoney.com

paula marchiel
managing director / co manageR

Paula has been with Seven Devils and id Theater since the first Conference in 2001. She has worked as Production Coordinator on two short films for the comedy troupe BOOBY HATCH. She is a company member of Synaesthetic Theater for whom she was Producer of The Empires New Clothes on Theater Row and Company Manager of The Trial of K both at the Culture Project and at the International Arts Festival in Salamanca Spain. For over 12 years she worked at TheatreworksUSA first as Assistant Company Manager then as Marketing Associate and Technology Officer. Other past work includes the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, New York University, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, the Really Useful Management Company, and Stage Management jobs too numerous to mention. She is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

a.p. andrews
literary manager

A.P. has been working with id Theater since 2012. As a playwright, he has written over fifteen full length plays, including The Nebraska Cycle and The Seaside Cycle. He is a graduate of NYU/Tisch (BFA) and Hunter College (MFA), and loves reading new plays more than anything in the whole wide world. www.apandrewsplays.com

ed baker
production manager / internships

Ed serves the School of Performing Arts at Wichita State University by heading up the Stage Management Certificate in the Theatre Program and as the Technical Director for School Productions. He has spent the majority of his career as a professional entertainment technician in theatre, film/television, concerts, and convention/exposition venues. He earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication with an emphasis in Theatre Arts from Wichita State University. After leaving Wichita he completed graduate studies, internship and residency to earn the M.F.A. in Theatre from the Professional Actor Training Program at Ohio University. He joined the Faculty of Wichita State University in Fall of 2006 as a Professor of Theatre and Performing Arts. His research agenda is rooted in entrepreneurship as a guiding principal for the creative worker and artist. The Academy should provide the tools to build a career while building the Theatre Culture of the Twenty-first Century. Ed is an active member of the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) and the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) as well as the Self Employment in the Arts Conference (SEA).

sheila mcdevitt
Founder & former co-artistic Director

A native Idahoan, Sheila is the founder and former co-Artistic Director of id Theater and she was instrumental in the creation of the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. Producing: Qwirk in NYC for 10 years – commissioning new works based on ancient myth cycles; Directing: 2 season's of Manhattan Class Company's "Summer Play Party", featuring plays written by New York City high school students; Yorkshire Faerie Tale by Tom Diggs and Jay D'Amico at Mind-the-Art Entertainment, NYC, Knuckle-heads by James McLindon at the Samuel French OOB Short Play Fest - numerous Seven Devils and NYC Sit In! readings including John Olive's A Slaying Song Tonight and Eric Coble's The Velocity of Autumn. Acting: NE tour of Dancing at Lughnasa/Weston Playhouse, Jupiter Theater, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theater, Lewis and Clark Repertory Theater, Qwirk Productions, American Shakespeare Festival, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, id Theater and numerous showcases. Sheila also had the pleasure of Understudying Ms. Carol Kane in In Betweens by Bryan Goluboff off Broadway. Proud Member of AEA!

danette baker
combat consultant

Danette has performed in NY and regionally at Lark Play Development Center, American Globe Theatre, The Cleveland Playhouse, Monomoy Theatre, and Wichita Center for the Arts among others. She is an adjunct Theatre faculty member for Wichita State University’s School of Performing Arts in KS and is the owner of her own Fight Choreography business: Fightinfierce LLC.

robert kerr
director of id-iots at play

Bob's plays include The Squizzinator, Project Y Theatre, The Potato Creek Chair of Death, Ensemble Studio Theatre and published by Playscripts Inc.; The Sticky-Fingered Fiancée (with composer Mat Eisenstein), a ten-minute musical, Raw Impressions Musical Theatre and Bedlam Theatre; To Whom, Brick Theater in Brooklyn. The End of the Road, The Living Section, Meet Uncle Casper and Kingdom Gone developed at the Lark Theatre, the Actors Studio, Playwrights Horizons, id Theater’s Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. The End of the Road finalist for the Abingdon Theater’s Christopher Brian Wolk Award, received a workshop production at the Juilliard School in 2009. Playwriting fellowship at Juilliard, Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, founding member of Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis, which produced his plays This the Word, The Secret Word for Today Is Carrot and Six Characters in Search of Water.