The Open Hand Theater Board of Directors:
Suan S. Wadley, President
Lou Buda
Bruce Coville
Barbara Curley
Rosemary Dacko
Francis Parks
Charlene Smyth
Deirdre Stam
Toni Paglia
Geoffrey Navias
Geoffrey, who has been the Artistic Director of Open Hand Theater since 1982, is author of over thirty full length plays, and has performed in professional theaters in England, Russia, and off Broadway. H is art and sculptures have been exhibited in Syracuse and the John H. Mulroy Civic Center, the Burnet Park Zoo, Gallery 320, Artiface Gallery, and Taste of the Arts Memorial Gallery. Presently his Open Hand Theater work includes teaching for a bilingual t heater project at the Onondaga Indian Nation School, directing Hand in Hand Children's Theater, and Taste of the Arts, an award winning weekly concert series and art gallery. Geoffrey lives in a pink, roaring twenties house in Syracuse, where he is raisin g three children.
Leslie Archer
Leslie, our Producer, Musician and Set Designer since 1988, took on her first major stage role with Open Hand Theater as Lady MacBeth. She has enjoyed creating the musical arrangements for many production s, and takes special pride in her contributions to our Arts in Education programs. She is also a travel enthusiast, venturing on all of Open Hand's Russian-Siberian tours. Leslie lives in an old hillside orchard in LaFayette, where she has raised a son, a daughter, and several generations of Siberian Huskies.
Andrea Martin
Andrea, has performed with Open Hand Theater since 1984, and is the main costume designer for our major productions. She especially loves physical comedy, had performed with our school Arts in Educ ation programs for many years, and traveled with Open Hand Theater's first tour of Russia and Siberia. She previously worked as a seamstress for Syracuse Stage, and as an eighth grade science teacher. Andrea lives and gardens with her husband and two chil dren on the Common Place Land Trust in Truxton.
Paul Barfoot
Paul has been an Open Hand Theater member for a dozen or so years, has been versatile in his roles; as the Grandfather in "Waste Not the Ours", Banquo in "Macbeth", and as Egeus, the outlandish blustering father of Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". He is a researcher who gathers background for many production scripts, and prepared himself for his two Siberian tours by studying Russian language and history.
Paul works in Special Collections at SU's Bird Library, and sings with the Hendricks' Chapel Choir. One of Paul's goals is to get everyone he knows to speak just a little Russian.
