Who's Who

"Imagination is the beginning of creation.
   You imagine what you desire,
                                   you will what you imagine
   and at last you create what you will."

GTG Staff

David Staller - Artistic Director and Founder

David Staller created GTG in 2006 in order to present work championing human rights with Bernard Shaw as an inspiration. He was born in Glencoe, Illinois and grew up spending time with his mother there and with his father in London. He studied acting and directing with Stella Adler and Uta Hagen in New York, Lee Strasberg in Los Angeles, and at RADA in London.

As a teenager, he was in the apprentice Joffrey Ballet Company. He then joined the Rostropovich master 'cello class at USC. While studying at USC, he took script writing courses and almost immediately became 'script doctor' for several film and television production companies. Coming back to New York, he returned to acting, appearing in three Broadway plays, almost 50 off-Broadway plays, and many regional theatre productions. He was given a Drama League 'distinguished performer' citation for his performance in GASLIGHT at the Irish Repertory Theatre Company in New York. He has appeared in many television shows and commercials, particularly voice-overs. He has also had a successful career as a cabaret and concert headliner. He performed his one-man show, NOEL&COLE, at Carnegie Hall in 1993. During all of this, he continued writing and became a scriptwriter for Turner Entertainment.

He has produced and directed many plays, concerts and special productions in New York and around the world, including (for the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences) the French National event at the Deauville Film Festival honoring the 50th anniversary of the D-Day Allied Invasion. In the spring of 2011, he directed Shaw's CANDIDA at the Two River Theatre Company in Red Bank, NJ. Most recently, David directed his adaptation of Shaw's MAN AND SUPERMAN as a co-production with The Irish Repertory Theatre in their space.

Mr. Staller casts and directs all Project Shaw readings. He adapts each script, using all available versions of Shaw's scripts, notes, letters and production sketches to create the most comprehensive script for each presentation.

Mr. Staller, who lives in Manhattan, is on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for The Players Club. E-mail David

"If you cannot hide the family skeleton,
you may as well make it dance."

Cori Gardner - General Manager

Cori

In addition to her position at GTG, Cori Gardner is a founding member of The PATH Fund, Inc., a non-profit organization that was created to give artists of all kinds an avenue to share their talents and raise money for charities that benefit the arts and entertainment communities. Cori serves as Executive Producer on The PATH Fund’s yearly event Rockers On Broadway, which has donated over $100,000 in the past few years.

From 2004—2008 Cori was the Managing Director for Wingspan Arts, Inc. and was primarily responsible for the day-to-day business management of the company. She ran the organization’s special events and supervised all aspects of the growing business, including planning for the future arts center and producing season.

Prior to 2004, Cori was the House Manager for the Ford Center of the Performing Arts. She also served as the Senior Contracts Manager for SFX Entertainment, working with the major touring productions, including Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast and Footloose. Cori was the Assistant Stage Manager for the Broadway hit Triumph of Love and the Off-Broadway productions of I Do! I Do! and No Way to Treat a Lady. She was also the Assistant Stage Manager for David Copperfield: Dreams and Nightmares during the production’s tour of The United States and Asia.

Cori was a managing partner in RIOT Entertainment, which was a lead producer on the smash Off-Broadway hit Bat Boy: The Musical, which won both the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Other RIOT productions have included Rooms in the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival, Frank Wildhorn and Friends in Concert and a workshop of Dark of the Moon. E-mail Cori

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Maggie Buchwald
Andrew M. Flescher
Anita Jaffe
Ethan E. Litwin, Secretary
David Staller
Richard Terrano, Treasurer
Florence Teuscher
Richard Weinberg, Chairman

GTG ADVISORY BOARD
Andrew Hamingson
Frank Skillern
Fran Smyth
Marylee Terrano
Tom Viola

ARTISTIC COUNCIL
Bryan Batt
Reed Birney
Jim Brochu
Blair Brown
Charles Busch
Michael Cerveris
M. Graham Coleman
Tyne Daly
Daniel Davis
Meredith Dixon
Xanthe Elbrick
Alison Fraser
Josh Grisetti
Shirley Herz
Jayne Houdyshell
Katharine Houghton
Sally Ann Howes
George S. Irving
Fern Jaffe

Daniel Jenkins
Simon Jones
Anne Keefe
Chad Kimball
Marc Kudisch
John McMartin
Charlotte Moore
Julia Murney
Mary Beth Peil
Hal Prince
Charlotte Rae
Reg Rogers
Marian Seldes
Victor Slezak
Fran Smyth
Jon Patrick Walker
Diane S. Weinberg
Paxton Whitehead
Lenny Wolpe

Development Consultants
Roxanne Greenstein, Barbara Perlov

Press Representative
Shirley Herz Associates
      Shirley Herz and Robert Lasko
      212-221-8466
      sherzassociates@gmail.com

Legal Representation
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
      M. Graham Coleman
      212-489-8230

Law Offices of Gayle Boesky
Gayle Boesky
  917-365-9940
  gayleboesky@gmail.com

Accountants
Marks Paneth & Shron LLP
      Richard Terrano
      212-330-6085

Stage Management Team
Nathan K. Claus, PSM
Kristin Bodal
Andy Ottoson 
Carly Price
Dina Paola Rodriguez 
Aaron Heflich Shapiro
Marci Skolnick 

Volunteer Office Staff
Katharine Andres
Bill Barbanes
Chris Deatherage
Meredith Dixon

Website Design
Calpaq: newyork@calpaq.us

Shaw with Kim, one of his many animal companions

David Staller has his hand on Shaw's shoulder.
This statue is in Niagara-On-The-Lake, site of the Shaw Festival in Canada.

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