Management
Darren Lee cole
Producing Artistic Director
Having influenced Off-Broadway and the theatre industry as a whole for the past 35 years, Darren Lee Cole has built his career around producing groundbreaking works, directing stellar performances, and teaching some of the world's finest actors. Darren truly learned about theatre from the legendary John Houseman and has been inspired through him in his producing, acting, and directing. Darren has produced over 150 productions through Cole Theatricals in New York, Los Angeles, Sweden, Canada, England, Scotland, Costa Rica, and many other states and countries. Darren became Producing Artistic Director of the SoHo Playhouse in 2004 where he has produced or directed an additional 50 groundbreaking works that have won many of Off-Broadway's most prominent theatre awards.BRITT LAFIELD
Managing Director
Britt Lafield has been working in New York Theater as an actor and producer for over 30 years. He has been associated with the SoHo Playhouse for over 20 years as the General Manager, Managing Director and Producer having even produced his own wedding on the stage in 2011. Devoted to creating new and exciting productions and helping younger theater artists he has been involved in producing several of the city's most prestigious theater festivals including the New York International Theater Festival, the Planet Connection Festivity, founding the Rave Theater Festival and culminating in creating and producing the Fringe Encore Series at the SoHo Playhouse for the past 15 years. He is committed to finding and bringing new work and artists to the SoHo Playhouse to create the best working lab for exciting theater in New York City.CARTER O. FORD
Technical Director
A writer, storyteller, improviser, and technical director in both NYC & Philadelphia. As a teenager, he acted on children’s television, started freelancing as a lighting designer at fifteen, and won the International Thespian Festival’s MusicalWorks award for his original musical, Love at First Site, at seventeen. More recently, he’s produced The Tournament of Improvisers, co-hosted SmutSlam NYC, and premiered his second hour-long solo show: Lessons for an incomplete black boy. He’s ecstatic at the opportunity to aid SoHo in their endeavor to create more versatile performance spaces.Annarose McQuaid
Box Office Manager
Ro McQuaid (she/her) is a standup comic/writer/actor who recently performed her debut solo show, LESBIANS!, both off-Broadway here at SoHo Playhouse and as her senior thesis at The New School, where she graduated with a very expensive BFA in May 2023. Other recent credits: semi-finalist in the 2023 New York Queer Comedy Festival, Trophy Boys (The Tank); These Bloody Histories (TNS); The Taming of the Shrew (TNS). @rovwade romcquaid.comBOARD
JOHN GREENER
John Greener began working with the theatre in 2008. He was instrumental in forming SoHo Playhouse Inc. as a qualified nonprofit under IRC Section 501(c)3 along with Darren Lee Cole and has served as a Trustee from its formation. John is the founder of A&E Business Advisors, Inc. which provides financial management and advisory services for individuals and businesses in Manhattan and the surrounding metropolitan area. He had previously been with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as a senior manager in their consulting practice. Before joining PwC, John was with the California Franchise Tax Board in Manhattan where he managed a group of tax professionals auditing large multinational corporations headquartered on the east coast.JEna mcintosh
Jena McIntosh has been one of the country’s top real estate agents and interior designers for over 25 years. She has closed over $2 billion in residential deals and has cultivated an extensive clientele base including some of the world’s top business executives, artists, investors, and politicians from Asia, Europe, Las Vegas, Hollywood, and New York. Over the years, she has become a trusted and a close advisor to many of those top clients. In addition, she has been active with the Special Olympics and Best Buddies organizations with Southern Nevada having been instrumental in their growth over the past 15 years. She currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.ANDREW Ben-AMI
Andrew R. Ben-Ami is chair of the Tax practice at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP. He has extensive experience in tax planning for businesses, individuals and tax-exempt organizations. Andrew advises clients on a broad range of federal, state and local tax matters. He also represents clients in tax examinations and controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and state and local tax authorities. Before joining the firm, Andrew was a partner at Heller Ehrman LLP. He also worked in the tax practice of a national accounting firm.
KAREN CAMP
Karen started, owned and operated Electrasem Inc., a multi-million dollar contract assembly company that supplied electronic equipment to manufacturers globally. Electrasem was sold in 2000 - since that time, Karen has devoted her time to time to buying and selling real estate as well as personally managing her investments. Karen is also deeply committed to various non-profit causes. In 2012, she became involved with and funded the national rollout of Second Saturday: What Women Need to Know about Divorce. Second Saturday is a critically acclaimed program created by WIFE.org, the Women’s Institute for Financial Education. Founded in 1988, WIFE.org is the nation’s longest running non-profit devoted to female financial literacy. Karen is also the owner and co-founder of Brite Spot, a non-profit home in Portland, Oregon. Brite Spot offers temporary housing, counseling and guidance to a population of vulnerable women who are now on a path to independent living.