MORGAN ALLEN (President) is a founding board member of Body Politic Theater. A theatre artist, administrator and producer, Morgan is currently in his first season as General Manager at New Dramatists, the nation's oldest development center for playwrights. He most recently served as the Associate Producer for both the U.S. premiere of Catherine Filloux’s LEMKIN’S HOUSE at 78th Street Theatre Lab and the world premiere of Andrew Gerle and Maryrose Wood’s THE TUTOR with Prospect Theater Company. In addition to spending the 2005-06 season as a Producing Associate with Prospect, he has also worked in New York City with La MaMa e.t.c., New Georges and National Asian American Theatre Company among others. As a playwright, his short play LEAP was featured as part of Prospect’s Dark Nights Series in April 2005. JUDAS PIGEON received a reading at Manhattan Ensemble Theater (dir. Jean Randich). He directed workshop productions of his plays TRIUMPH OF THE UNDERDOG, co-written with Mitch Montgomery, and PRECIOUS STONE in Savannah, Georgia, while his one-act DEATH AND SEX was a semi-finalist in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival 2002 Short Play Competition. In addition to his artistic and administrative work, Morgan volunteers as a core member and webmaster for Theatre Without Borders (www.theatrewithoutborders.com), an informal group of individual theatre artists around the world who are committed to international exchange. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media and Performing Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

ANDREW LEVINE (Vice-President) is the executive director of the soon-to-be organization, The Carnelia Studio for Musical Theater Studies, a partnership created with composer/lyricist Craig Carnelia.  The studio serves the professional communities of musical theater writers and performers.  He co- produced and served as musical director for THE BLUE FLOWER, a multimedia music theater piece by Jim and Ruth Bauer in the first year of NYMF.  As head of the musical theater program for Perry-Mansfield in Steamboat Springs CO, he co-produced and musically directed workshops of RODEO, THE BLUE FLOWER, HUDSUCKER PROXY and RIVER"S END, now making its New York debut in this year's NYMF.  For P-M he also created The Art of Cabaret Workshop and The Composer’s Stage Project and built a pre-professional training program for the school.  He is currently a coach and instructor at The Hartt School in West Hartford.  He holds a BM from the Manhattan School of Music and an MM from Georgia Southern University.

MITCH MONTGOMERY (Secretary) , a Georgia native, graduated with a B.F.A. in Media and Performing Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Since moving to New York, Mitch has worked for The Shubert Organization and The New York Summer Play Festival. He writes theatre reviews for OffOffOnline.com and comic books for Project Illusion Media in New Jersey.

HEATHER ALLEN (Treasurer) is currently working as the Financial Assistant at Richard Frankel Productions, an independent theatrical production and general management company, whose recent Broadway productions include SWEENEY TODD, HAIRSPRAY and THE PRODUCERS. Before joining the staff at Richard Frankel, she worked as the bookkeeper for Town Square Productions and was the Business and General Manager for Manhattan Ensemble Theatre where she worked on the Broadway production of William Gibson’s GOLDA’S BALCONY and the critically-acclaimed NINE PARTS OF DESIRE Off-Broadway. She has also worked as Production Assistant/Audience Outreach for the National Asian American Theatre Company’s production of EYES OF THE HEART by Catherine Filloux, as well as the US Premiere of Ms. Filloux’s LEMKIN’S HOUSE at 78th Street Theatre Lab. Heather has also worked with such organizations as The National Alliance for Musical Theatre and Theatre Without Borders. She graduated with honors from The Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Media & Performing Arts.