Staff Category: Staff
Hannah Kloepfer
Social Media Strategist
Hannah Kloepfer (she/her) is the Social Media Strategist for the Dramatists Guild Foundation. As a strategist and social media manager, Hannah specializes in helping theater arts organizations, nonprofits, and production companies streamline their unique storytelling across multiple platforms. Her commitment to this work complements her parallel career as a writer and producer: Hannah is the co-writer of the STEM-centric youth musical (and zoomical) Pitch In; and a proud producer/Board Member of the annual Write Out Loud Contest (25 million streams + 375K monthly listeners on Spotify). She is a graduate of Columbia University and currently serves as Development Executive for Lucky Boy Productions.
Learn more @hannahkloepfer | www.hannahkloepfer.com
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ChiChi Anyanwu
Room & Reservation Coordinator
ChiChi Anyanwu (she/her) is a talent manager/founder of CHI Talent Management. In her spare time, she teaches at Stonestreet Studios and The New School. She is a producer for the NOW AFRICA: Playwrights Festival. Other past producing projects include workshop productions of the 1st Gen Nigerian Project at the Bank Street Theatre and the Humanitas Award winning play Good Grief written by her sister, award winning playwright/actress, Ngozi Anyanwu, at the INTAR Theatre. ChiChi also serves as a diversity audience consultant for Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres. ChiChi Anyanwu is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a B.A. in Communication, Theater Studies minor & Certificate in African Studies.
Awards/Honors: 2020 grant recipient of the American Express 100 for 100 program. Diverse Representation “The Ten to Watch in 2021” list.
Bianca Bailey
Room & Reservation Coordinator
Bianca Bailey is a native New Yorker who has worked in the arts for over a decade. She holds a Bachelor degree from the CUNY in Theater Education and Master’s degree from Baruch College in Arts Administration and was awarded the Nagelberg Family Scholarship in Spring 2022. She is also an alumnus of NYFA Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color in 2022. Bailey has worked with the Gloria Eve School of Arts for twelve years, engaging and nurturing young dancers and artists through self-expression and exploration. Her love of the performing arts stems from her desire to be as expressive and free as a child. Bianca joined New York Live Arts as a full-time staff member in 2018, and was later promoted to her current role as Community Engagement and Education Manager.
Bianca is excited about joining the Dramatists Guild Foundation organization to contribute to their mission of supporting artists who bring creativity and inspiration to our lives.
Vincent Cinque
Room & Reservation Coordinator
Vincent Cinque (he/they) is a Brooklyn based actor, director, and theater maker. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and holds a BFA in Drama and Producing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He is the leading player, resident director, and managing member of NYC’s Premier Immersive Theater Company Speakeasy Dollhouse (Credits include: Zeigfeld’s Midnight Frolic, The Bloody Beginning, The Illuminati Ball, The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini). He’s worked creating fresh and innovative productions alongside his contemporaries during his decade in the city with companies such as Insomnium Theater Co., Rooftop Musical Society, Blinky’s Players, Hampton Theatre Co., Guild Hall, Round Table Theater Co., and at the Southampton Parrish Arts Center. Vincent also recently began the theatrical process of telling the story of his experiences growing up with and caring for his handicapped mother, and is honored to be welcomed to a prestigious and gracious organization like DGF while embarking on that journey. For more information, visit www.vincentcinque.com
Beth Golison
Room & Reservation Coordinator
Beth Golison (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based writer/composer, performer, and Intimacy Director. Projects include Lottie and the Deep Blue Sea (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest), here i fall up (New Ohio, The Tank), somewhere in the desert (The Brick), mrs rochester: an autobiography (5th Floor Theatre Company’s Groundbreakers Grant), and In the Pool (presented as a reading at the Bush Theatre in London). Beth’s original short film, Let’s Go Together, was an official selection of several festivals including New Faces New Voices Film Festival. She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch.
Jeff Gordon
Room & Reservation Coordinator
Jeff is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumental musician whose recent solo performances include Rockwood Music Hall and other NYC clubs. He has several recordings of original music available on all streaming platforms. Jeff has performed on trumpet in the pit orchestra for regional theatre, as well as for Broadway tours, including Wicked, Book of Mormon, Chicago and Beautiful: the Carol King Musical. He is thrilled to be a member of the DGF team, and to support the organization’s important mission. He looks forward to assisting theatre writers at all stages of their careers.
Laura Romero
Room & Reservation Coordinator
Laura Romero (she/her) artistically known as Loe Love, is a singer, songwriter, producer, and actress. “A force to be reckoned with”, as described by her colleagues and peers, she is establishing a name for herself in the music industry, actively singing, performing, and band directing in stages throughout NYC, CT, NJ, and FL. Her passion for music began at a young age as she first developed the ability to write poems that she then turned into lyrics. While living in her native country, Dominican Republic, she traveled as a dancer for Folkrore De Agrucudegua, performing in theaters and festivals.
Laura strives to continue growing, learning, and expanding her career as an entertainer; hoping to create a path for others within the Hispanic community to be and feel inspired, accepted, and included in the arts regardless of gender or nationality. She is thrilled to join DGF and wishes to use her role as a Rehearsal Rooms Coordinator to help encourage a more diverse and dynamic directory of dramatists.
Josie Melendez
Room & Reservation Coordinator
Growing up in Puerto Rico, when everyone was telling Josie Meléndez she should pursue writing as a career, she was dead set on becoming a veterinarian. That was until one summer when she fainted during a procedure. Now she is a writer, producer, film critic, and poet. With a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Puerto Rico and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Josie Meléndez is the founder of Film Posers and the writer and producer of season one of Becoming an Icon. Named an emerging content creator by NALIP and an emerging journalist by TIFF, she is the author of Gotas de amor.