Tori Keenan-Zelt, Co-Artistic Director
Steven Koernig, Co-Artistic Director
Amy Lyles, President
Robert Weathers, Vice President
Kaitlyn Gardy, Secretary
Jim Dwyer, Treasurer
Rachel West, Marketing
Ed Whitacre, Community Outreach
Steve Holloway, Season Selection
Brandon Lyles, Literary Manager
Tori Keenan-Zelt is co-founder of Panglossian Productions and currently serves as Co-Artistic Director. She is a playwright, actor, and director. In former lives, she held positions with American PlayWorks, Hampton Roads Academy, Riverhead Books, The Harvard Book Review, Pittsburgh Magazine, and The Harvard College Fund. Tori holds a BA from Harvard College in American history and literature and an MAT from Simmons College.
Amy Lyles holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts from Drake University. Over the last nine years, she has stage managed numerous https://panglossian.org/shows in the Hampton Roads area, including Baby, Same Time Next Year, Chapter Two, My Jo, and Company. She was Stage Manager for the finale piece of the Jamestown 2007 celebration, Journey of Destiny. Amy has served on the Williamsburg Players Board of Directors. Previously, she spent several years as Stage Manager for the Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, where she worked with such greats as Howard Keel, Julius LaRosa, and Donald O’Connor.
Brandon Lyles has served as an actor, director, and designer in theatres from California to Virginia. He has provided lighting designs for productions of Company, Barnum, Baby, Talley’s Folley, My Jo, A Chorus Line, and Man of La Mancha. Brandon also provided designs for Alma Mahler, White Christmas, Sylvia, War of the Worlds, and Anna In the Tropics for Palomino Entertainment Group. Recent directing credits include Father of the Bride, Moonlight and Magnolias, and Talley’s Folley. He holds a BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, Fullerton and is a former stage manager with the Palm Springs Follies.
Steven Koernig is co-founder of Panglossian Productions and currently serves as Co-Artistic Director. He is an actor, director, and designer, having appeared or participated in numerous https://panglossian.org/shows including Deathtrap, Company, Arsenic and Old Lace, Barefoot in the Park, Fabulation, Barnum, Father of the Bride, Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV, Part I, Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night, Othello, Good Doctor, Glass Menagerie, and Carnival. He also brings photographic and video production skills to Panglossian Productions.
Alyse Pollock is a playwright, dramaturge, and performer. She holds a BA in theater from Goucher College. Prior to coming to Panglossian, she was named a 2011 Kratz Summer Writing Fellow. Previously she has studied and performed with Goucher College, the Maryland Shakespeare Festival, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
