SUZANNE BARABAS (Artistic Director)

SuzAnne was the co-founder of the Cincinnati Repertory Company and the American Repertory Theater of Philadelphia, and served as the Artistic Director for these companies. She was also Founding Director of Arts Access, an arts program for disabled children and adults at the Matheny School. SuzAnne is the co-author and lyricist of Find Me a Voice, Immortal Interlude and Hyde & Seek. She has directed for various theaters and colleges in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as well as New Jersey. For NJ Rep, she directed Find Me a Voice, North Fork, Immortal Interlude, Octet, Till Morning Comes, Maggie Rose, Getting in Touch With My Inner B*tch starring Christine Lavin, The Adjustment, Emil, 10% of Molly Snyder,  Klonsky & Schwartz, and Apostasy.  SuzAnne is a member of AEA, BMI, Dramatists Guild, & SSDC.

GABOR BARABAS (Executive Producer)

Gabor received his BA from NYU and his MD from the University of Cincinnati. He was co-founder of the Cincinnati Repertory Company and the American Repertory Theater of Philadelphia. His poetry has appeared in various literary journals, and his collection of poems, Russian Chronicles, was published by Gray Falcon. He has written several plays including Find Me a Voice, Immortal Interlude and Hyde & Seek. For NJ Rep he has produced the professional premieres of Ends, A World I Never Made, North Fork, Octet, The Girl With the High Rouge, In Search of Red River Dog, Naked by the River, An Unhappy Woman, Immortal Interlude, Getting in Touch With My Inner B*tch, Till Morning Comes, Slave Shack, Panama, Big Boys, Winterizing the Summer House, Piaf in Vienna, The Color of Flesh, Emil, Touch of Rapture, Beyond Gravity,  A Child’s Guide to Innocence, The Good Daughter, Apostasy, The Best Man, Tilt Angel, October 1962, and tempOdyssey as well as productions of On Golden Pond starring Kim Hunter, Memoir starring Salome Jens, Find Me A Voice, Adult Fiction, Harry and Thelma in the Woods, The Play's The Thing, The Dead Boy, Maggie Rose, Raft of the Medusa, The Laramie Project, Best Kept Secret with Katharine Houghton, The Adjustment, Spain, Lemonade, Old Clown Wanted, Whores, The Speed Queen, Don't Hug Me, Circumference of a Squirrel, Ten Percent of Molly Snyder, Tour de Farce, The Women of Lockerbie, Athol Fugard’s Exits and Entrances and Romulus Linney’s Klonsky and Schwartz. In addition, Gabor is the Director of the Long Branch Arts Council and recently received the Louis G. Libutti Community Service Award from the Long Branch Chamber of Commerce for outstanding professional achievement and community service to the City of Long Branch.

AMES ADAMSON (Company Manager)

Ames' most recent stage credits include, Malvolio in the musical adaptation of Twelfth Night called Illyria, Reuben in Hidden in This Picture, Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Nathan in Rags. Panama is Ames' first full production at the NJ Rep, having done staged readings of Maggie Rose, Actor, and The Flowering Thorn.

ROSE RICCARDI (Production Stage Manager)

Rose Riccardi is the Resident Equity Stage Manager at NJ Rep. She was the stage manager for A World I Never Made, On Golden Pond, Find Me A Voice, Memoir, The Play's the Thing, Adult Fiction, Octet, The Girl with the High Rouge, In Search of Red River Dog, Piaf In Vienna, and assisted on North Fork. Rose is a graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in Communications. In addition to her work at NJ Rep, she is the Set Designer for High Point Regional High School in Sussex.

LEWIS PERLMUTTER (Technical Consultant) is currently the Technical Director of the Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum. The New Jersey companies he has worked for include The New Jersey Ballet, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, What Exit? Theatre Co, and NJ Rep.

LAUREN SCHWARZ (Board of Trustees) received her Master's Degree in Education from New York University. She has supervised teacher certification for the state of Massachusetts , has taught kindergarten and transitional first grade in Burlington, Mass., taught first and second grade in Hillsborough, New Jersey, and was curriculum coordinator and administrator for a private New Jersey elementary school. Currently, she is an elementary teaching specialist in Bridgewater. Her responsibilities include teaching reading recovery as an early intervention program to first grade students, coordination of schoolwide enrichment activities, staff and curriculum development.