Lateva Woolfork

Lateva Woolfork is a Detroit girl living in an Indianapolis world — a visionary entrepreneur, speaker, faith leader, and proud mother of six daughters. She is the Founder of Socially Coordinated Consulting (SoCo PR), a communications and brand strategy firm specializing in public relations, community engagement, and SEO. Through SoCo, Lateva helps mission-driven organizations and entrepreneurs elevate their visibility and impact through authentic storytelling and strategic marketing.

As the Co-Founder of Create. Connect. Collab., she empowers women entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses and meaningful connections through community, collaboration, and accountability.

A dedicated small business coach and advocate, Lateva is passionate about helping founders—especially women and minority-owned businesses—develop confidence, clarity, and strategy for growth. She is a proud graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program, a member of the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Class XLVIII, and was recently named to the Indy 40 Under 40 Class of 2025 for her leadership and civic contribution.

Always in the mood for laughter and a deep conversation, Lateva brings her full, authentic self to every space she enters—creating environments where women feel seen, supported, and strengthened in every season of life.

Randy Reinholz

Randy Reinholz, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the Founding Artistic Director of Native Voices at the Autry, the nation’s premier Equity theatre company dedicated exclusively to developing and producing new plays by Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations playwrights. Reinholz is a producer, actor, director, playwright, professor, and activist. His play Off The Rails, directed by Bill Rauch, had its world premiere and a sold-out run at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has produced 35+ new scripts and directed 75+ plays in the United States, Australia, Mexico, Great Britain, and Canada. During his tenure, Native Voices presented 300+ workshops and readings of Native plays with artists from more than 100 distinct tribal nations, with work appearing at OSF, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, The Public Theater, Perseverance Theatre, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Montana Rep, The Alaska Native Heritage Center, Arizona Repertory Theatre, numerous universities, and tribal communities. Awards include Playwrights’ Arena’s Lee Melville Award, the Ellen Stewart Award for Career Achievement in Professional Theatre, the LA Drama Circle’s Gordon Davidson Award, a McKnight Fellowship, a Map Grant, a Ford Foundation Grant, and NEA grants. He is the immediate past President of the National Theater Conference, a trustee of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, and served as a Council Member for The Dramatist Guild of America. He is a tenured Professor at San Diego State University, where he also served as Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film.

Franky D. Gonzalez

Franky D. Gonzalez is a playwright and TV writer of Colombian descent based in Dallas where he serves the Dramatists Guild Regional Representative. Selected appearances include The Lark, the Sundance Institute, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Ground Floor, the NNPN National Showcase of New Plays, the Latinx Playwrights Circle, the Texas State University's Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration, The Sol Project (SolFest 2022), Urbanite Theatre, Visión Latino Theatre Company, The Orchard Project, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Valdez Theatre Conference, the Goodman Theatre (Live @ Five Series), Launch Pad at UC Santa Barbara, The New Harmony Project, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Repertorio Español, LAByrinth Theater Company, Ars Nova (ANT Fest 2021), Dallas Theater Center, the William Inge Theatre Festival, Stages Repertory Theatre's Sin Muros Latinx Theatre Festival (2019 and 2024), the Latino Theatre Company’s RE:Encuentro 2021: National Virtual Latina/o/x Theatre Festival, the Latinx Theatre Commons 2022 Comedy Carnaval, Seven Devils New Play Foundry. Franky was a recipient of the Charles Rowan Beye New Play Commission, an MTC/Sloan Commission, the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Prize, co-recipient of the MetLife Nuestras Voces Latino Playwriting Award, won the Crossroads Project Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative Award, the Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting, the Short+Sweet Theatre Festival Manila Best Overall Production Prize, and was a staff writer for the fourth season of 13 Reasons Why. Productions of his work have also been recognized garnering two Non-Equity Jeff Awards in Chicago for Short Run Production and Short Run Director in 2024. Previously he was a 4 Seasons Resident Playwright, a Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Program Fellow, a Core Writer with the Playwrights Center, and is currently the proud Bishop Arts Theatre Center Playwright-in-Residence, and a board member of the New Harmony Project.

Madeline Sayet

Madeline Sayet is an internationally acclaimed Mohegan director and playwright who currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor at ASU with Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) and served six years as Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (YIPAP). She is a member of Long Wharf Theatre’s Artistic Ensemble, and a Resident Artist at Centre Theatre Group. For her work she has been honored as a Macdowell Fellow, Hermitage Fellow, TED Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30, NCAIED Native American 40 Under 40, and recipient of The White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama. Her play Where We Belong recently completed its national tour produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Association with the Folger Shakespeare Library. www.madelinesayet.com

Eric Kilbride

Eric Kilbride (he/him), Secretary/Treasurer - Eric has been working with non-profit leaders, youth workers, young people, and their communities across the US and around the world to improve the opportunities and support young people and their families need to thrive for more than 20 years. He developed Community Youth Mapping as an international community and youth engagement strategy to collect, analyze and disseminate information in a myriad of subject areas. He also established Youth MakerSpaces as co-design, collaboration spaces within communities, and provided training and technical assistance in Youth Employment and Livelihood, Social Justice, Workforce Development, STEM, Leadership and Civil Society.

Lily Houghton

Lily Houghton (she/her) - Lily is a playwright born and raised in New York City. Her plays have been produced/developed at theaters such as MCC Theater Company, Atlantic Theater Company, The Flea Theater, EST/Youngblood, NYU, Seattle Repertory Theater, Normal Ave, Contemporary American Theater Festival/Shepherd

University, The 52nd Street Project and the Jermyn Street Theatre in London. She is currently developing a pilot with Amazon Studios.

Donnetta Lavinia Grays

Donnetta Lavinia Grays (she/her), Vice Chair/Chair Elect - Donnetta is a Brooklyn-based playwright-actor from Columbia, SC. Her plays include Where We Stand, Last Night and the Night Before, Laid to Rest, and The Review or How to Eat Your Opposition. She’s received The Whiting Award for Drama, The Helen Merrill Playwright Award, NTC’s Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwright Award, Lilly Award, Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award, and the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. She is also a Lucille Lortel, Drama League, and AUDELCO Award Nominee. Commissions: Steppenwolf, Denver Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, WP Theater, and True Love Productions.

Natalie Beane

Natalie Beane (she/her), Chair – Natalie serves as Regional Director of SBA Lending at Provide. She brings more than 16 years of experience and expertise in finance and strategic planning to The New Harmony Project Board of Trustees.

Daria Miyeko Marinelli

Daria Miyeko Marinelli (they/she) is a Japanese-Italian playwright/screenwriter who delights in using the heist genre, wildness, and bifurcating narrative structures to challenge current and construct new cultural mythologies. Mx. Marinelli has developed work with Cirque du Soleil, Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwright’s Realm, Fault Line Theatre, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and The Kennedy Center and is currently developing a TV series with Hill District Media.

Loui Lord Nelson, Ph.D.

Loui Lord Nelson, Ph.D. (she/her) is an internationally recognized leader in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) implementation. UDL is a framework used by anyone who delivers instruction and wants to design accessible, equitable, and inclusive learning environments that guide learners to know themselves as learners. Loui was a special education teacher and later became the UDL Coordinator for a school district for four years. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at CAST (the creators of UDL). She has worked with educators across the U.S., Africa, Australia, Asia, Canada, and Europe and with USAID, the U.S. government-based aid organization, and implementing partners to define their application of UDL across low- and middle-income settings. Some of her publications include: the best seller Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning (2nd Ed.), two additional books, a card game called Go Fishing with UDL, and she hosts the popular podcast, UDL in 15 Minutes, listened to by individuals in over 135 countries. theUDLapproach.com

Blair Russell

Blair Russell (he/him), Immediate Past Board Co-Chair - Blair is a producer, developer, supporter, and lover of theater. His favorite projects include Slave Play (a record-breaking 12 Tony nominations), Lizard Boy (3 Drama Desk nominations), STILL (Off-Broadway starring Jayne Atkinson and Tim Daly), and DIVA: Live From Hell (King's Head Theatre, London).

He is currently developing the new musicals For Tonight, Salem, Pop Off, Michelangelo!, and The Circus in Winter. Other projects as co-producer / investor include The Wiz (National Tour/Broadway), Sweeney Todd (Immersive Off-Broadway , Gyspy with Imelda Staunton (West End), An Officer and A Gentleman (UK National Tour), and Show Boat (West End). Blair is a member of the Board of Goodspeed Musicals and SPACE on Ryder Farm. He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Technical Theatre/Stage Management.