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Tom Prewitt (Artistic Director)
Tom Prewitt has joined the Serenity family as our new Artistic Director for
the upcoming season. Mr. Prewitt is a professional director, educator and
administrator with over twenty five years of experience. He has directed widely
in the Washington, DC region, staging many productions for the Woolly Mammoth
Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Theatre of the First Amendment and Signature
Theatre just to name a few. His resume includes numerous New York and regional
productions, from Portland, Maine to Carmel, California . He served as Associate
Artistic Director at Woolly Mammoth for nearly ten seasons, during which he
not only directed for the main stage but helped create and produce a new play
reading series and many of the theatre's acclaimed outreach programs, such
as the Community Playbuilding project. His creative insight and passion for
the performing arts have yielded fully-staged productions of Invisible
City (2001) and The Other River (2006), about the 14th Street corridor
and Southeast, DC. Mr. Prewitt also served as the first Executive Director
of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, and he is currently
a member of the Board of Directors for City at Peace, a non-profit youth development
and performing arts group in Washington.
(Contact Tom Prewitt)
Pamela A. Jafari (Production Manager) has worked in all areas of the theatre, including stage-management, sound technician, light board operator and actress. She was also a box office manager with Arena Stage as well as an improv actress with DC Playback Theatre. In addition, she worked several years with the International Association of Jazz Educators Annual Conference, as well as the Pioneer Awards (Rhythm & Blues Foundation), the Annapolis Jazz Festival, Barbeque Battle, the Washington Millennium Celebration, A Tribute to Marion Barry, and 3 National Girl Scout Jamborees on the National Mall. She also worked five years with Sasha Bruce Youthwork's "It Won't Happen To Me" AIDs production. In her travels to Africa , she worked as an Assistant Stage Manager and Associate Producer of events and programs for the National Theatre of Ghana. Being an active community member, Ms. Jafari taught various forms of theatre concepts at John Eaton Elementary School , Bethesda/Chevy Chase High School, Mark Twain High School, and Bethesda Youth Services Teen Center. Ms. Jafari was the Membership Director for the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington for three years. Currently, she is a principle partner with Undaunted Productions. (Contact Pamela Jafari)