Our Talented Team

The Magic Behind The Curtain (Also Above It!)

Leadership

Isabel Dawson

Executive Director

Isabel.Dawson@thepuppetco.org

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Isabel graduated Magna Cum Laude from Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) with a double major (Business Management & Theatre) as well as a double minor (Entrepreneurship & Nonprofit Leadership). As a senior, she won first place at the Augustana Business Plan Competition. She stage managed for theatres such as the Mississippi Bend Players, St. Croix Festival Theatre, the Spotlight Theatre and Playcrafter’s Barn Theatre. As the Executive Director of Genesius Guild, she produced free classical theatre in a public park. She recruited, hired and managed a production team of over 20 people and over 50 volunteers. She moved to the area to become the Executive Director in September of 2023.

Maggie Rocha

Operations & Marketing Manager

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Maggie graduated from American University with a double major in Communication Studies and Theatre Arts. While at AU, her love of theatre grew from onstage to behind-the-scenes, having had opportunities to act, stage manage, and work in lighting. Maggie has spent her past three summers working with Wildwood Summer Theatre, the DC area’s oldest youth-run theatre company, as a performer and tenured board member. She has been working at the Puppet Co. since 2021. She hopes to continue TPC’s mission of spreading the joy of puppetry across the DMV as both a staff member and a performer.

Front of House Staff

Marshall Bailey

Julia Creutzer

Breanna Dunbar

Caitlyn Fitzgerald

Kenzy Hinkel

Andrew McMichael

Morgana Schuirmann

Teaching Artists

Ingrid Bork

Mollie Greenberg

Kenzy Hinkel

Danny Pushkin

Penny Russell

Key Volunteers

Outreach Coordinator:

Ingrid Bork

Education Committee:

Kenzy Hinkel, Mollie Greenberg

Grants Committee:

Rose Talbot, Mollie Greenberg

Technical Staff

Andrea ‘Dre’ Moore