staff

Kathleen Anderson Culebro (Artistic Director)

Born and raised in Mexico City, Kathleen is a founding member of Amphibian Stage Productions. She is the author of Just Because You're Paranoid (Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get You), Vincent and The Crying Woman/La Llorona, which premiered off-Broadway at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row in February of 2007. Her play A Leopard Complains of Its Spots played off-off-Broadway in New York City in the summer of 2001. Design credits include: (scenic design) Miss Witherspoon, Below the Belt, 4 Edges, Leonce & Lena, Three Days of Rain, and Burn This; (costume design) Three Days of Rain, Macbeth, The Lost Moment; (makeup) Icarus, Fuddy Meers, Look Back in Anger, Communicating Doors.

Rebecca Allard (Managing Director)

Rebecca spent the first decade of her professional life in the theater. Her career centered on acting in New York City and summer stock, with a few side trips into other theatrical avenues, most notably as general manager for the Theatre of the Riverside Church’s 1973 season that included Miguel Piñero’s, “Short Eyes.” “Short Eyes” won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, two Obies, and was later made into a motion picture. She then took a swift turn to the corporate world which led her to many responsibilities, ultimately as National Director of Technology Implementation at Deloitte & Touche and senior administrator on the equity syndicate desk at Lehman Brothers, where she sadly witnessed firsthand the death of Lehman. Rebecca has returned to Texas and is proud to assist Amphibian Stage Productions and its spunk, integrity and ambition.

Alix Milne (Marketing and Press Manager)

Alix has worked with Amphibian Stage Productions since its inception in 2000, both backstage as a stagehand, Properties Mistress, and Set Designer, and in the office in Marketing and Press. Most recently, Alix worked at New York’s Public Theater in the Marketing and Press Departments. Other professional experience includes the position of Videographer for artist Laura Anderson Barbata, as well as Production Designer and Art Director for numerous films and music videos in Los Angeles. Alix has a B.A. in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University.

Natalie Chapa (Company Manager)

A Fort Worth native, Natalie returned to her hometown after graduating from University of North Texas in 2009. She is Amphibian's primary office administrator and box office manager, and she thoroughly enjoys building relationships with Amphibian's patrons. Her experience in arts administration, specifically centered around working with children, makes Natalie a great fit for Amphibian's outreach program Tad-Poles. Learning the skill of stilt walking and getting the opportunity to share it with children in her community is a wonderful gift for her. Natalie is thrilled to be a part of a group that pushes boundaries and continually raises the bar for excellence in its field.

Linsey Retcofsky (Community Engagement Associate)

Linsey received her B.A. in Drama from Lee University in Cleveland, TN where she studied playwriting and directing. In 2010, she moved back to Fort Worth to attend graduate school in the Drama program at Texas Woman’s University. In 2011, Linsey traveled with Texas Woman’s University to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as the stage manager for The Panther’s Scream and other Texas Tales. Her master’s thesis The Impossible Dramaturgy of Genocide: Erik Ehn in Theory and Performance focused on playwright Erik Ehn’s cycle of genocide plays from the perspective of her work as stage manager for his play Diamond Dick: The Tulsa Race Riots of 1921. This project was produced by Project X: Theatre in Dallas and performed as part of Soulographie: our genocides, a festival of Ehn’s genocide plays produced at La Mama ETC in New York City in November 2012. Linsey is thrilled to be working with Amphibian Stage Productions where she is able to share her passion for theater with the Fort Worth community. Some of her favorite Amphibian productions include Animals Out of Paper, Wittenberg, The True History of the Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World, and Fiction.

Karen Matheny (Education and Production Assistant)

Karen is a TCU graduate where she received her B.F.A. in theatre with an emphasis in acting and where she met Kathleen Culebro. Karen has been working with Amphibian Stage Productions since 2008. Productions she has worked on include Dark Play or Stories for Boys, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Three Days of Rain, The First Day of School, No Child…, Animals Out of Paper, and Vigil. She also serves as the Projections Designer for Amphibian’s staged readings at The Modern. Recently, Karen has also been working with Amphibian on their school outreach program, Tad-Poles, as a teacher and a stilt walker. Karen also serves as the Props Master for the Trinity Shakespeare Festival (2009, 2011-2012) and works as an actress in the DFW area.

Carman Lacivita (Artistic Associate/Fight Choreographer/Actor)

Carman was recently seen in The Witch of Edmonton and Lorenzaccio with Red Bull Theater Company.  Also, George is Dead, with Don Murray and Marlo Thomas, written and directed by Elaine May at Arizona Theater Company.  Broadway: Valvert in Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner, directed by David Leveaux.  Off Broadway: Henry the 6th in Rose Rage; Henry the 6th Pts. 1, 2, 3 (Bayfield Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Shakespeare in NYC, Jeff Award, Drama League Nomination), directed by Edward Hall. Carman has also worked with Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab, The Public Theater, The Pearl, Theater for a New Audience, Primary Stages, The Mint, The Drama League, and Ars Nova.  International and Regional: Bermuda Arts Festival, George St. Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare, Long Wharf, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Crossroads, Stage West, Ft. Worth, Dallas, and Kentucky Shakespeare Festivals. Carman’s performance of Romeo at Chicago Shakespeare, directed by Mark Lamos, was featured in the Sourcebook Shakespeare’s book on Romeo and Juliet, alongside Ralph Fiennes and Judi Dench. Film/TV: Cyrano de Bergerac (PBS Great Performances), “Royal Pains,” “Modern Love” (pilot), and “Marino’s” (pilot). Carman holds an M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he trained with William Esper and Deborah Hedwall and is a Founding member and Artistic Associate of Amphibian Stage Productions, where he has performed in numerous productions including Burn This, Three Days of Rain, Leonce and Lena, Icarus, Fully Committed, and Lonely Planet.

Jonathan Fielding (Artistic Associate/Actor)

Jonathan is grateful to have performed in several works with Amphibian Stage Productions, including Vigil, La Llorona, Below the Belt (Fort Worth Weekly Critics Pick, Best Ensemble), Leonce and Lena, and The True History of Julia Pastrana…  Broadway: Pygmalion (Roundabout Theatre Company) and The Seagull (Walter Kerr Theater).  New York: Greetings! (Penguin Rep), Kicker (Triptych Theatre), Love Song (59 E59), The True History of Julia Pastrana…, Leonce and Lena (Amphibian), Double Negative, and This Lurking Thing (Dixon Place).  Other Texas: Lincolnesque (Circle Theater), A Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet (KWC).  Other theaters he’s worked at include Ford’s Theater in Washington DC, American Stage in St. Petersburg, Florida, Milesquare Theater, The Public Theatre of Maine.  TV: Admiral Rickover: Father of Nuclear Power (PBS), All My Children, Guiding Light.  Jonathan is also a founding member of the Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, Ma.  He holds an M.F.A. from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts and is a proud member of AEA and AFTRA.
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Chad R. Jung (Artistic Associate/Resident Lighting Designer)

Chad R. Jung has designed more than 100 productions for theatre, opera, and dance. Off-Broadway: Leonce & Lena; NY Credits: Julia Pastrana at Greenwich St. Theater, A Leopard Complains of Its Spots at Pantheon Theater; International: The Bear at the Festival of Russian Drama in Togliatti , Russia . Chad has worked with many companies including: Ballet Austin, Bruce Wood, Caroline Calouche, Casa Mañana, Dallas Opera, FW Symphony Orchestra, Opera Pacific, Metropolitan Classical Ballet, and UNT Opera. In addition to being the Resident Lighting Designer for Kids Who Care and Amphibian Stage Productions, Chad R. Jung is the Lighting Director for Fort Worth Opera.  www.chadrjungdesign.com   Resume

Board of Directors

Gregory Scott Ibañez, chair
David Fielding, secretary
Dan Barrett
Kay Bolz
Jeff Davis
Tina Gorski
Peter Kowalski, MD
Dan McCarron
Jarrell Milburn
Scott Price
Whitney Smith
John E. Williams