Our People

Meredith Suttles

Meredith Suttles

Managing Director
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Meredith Suttles (she/her) is the Managing Director of Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. She is an arts leader with more than two decades of experience spanning development, management, fundraising, strategic planning, and performance. Suttles has held executive and senior leadership roles at organizations across the country, including Marin Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, TheatreWorksUSA, Soho Repertory Theatre, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and New York City Opera.

She is a graduate of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and a former EmcArts: Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators (ALACI) Fellow. Suttles is also a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., serves on the Advisory Circle of TCG’s THRIVE! Program, and is a Steering Committee Member of the Black Theatre Commons. She is passionate about using theatre to spark dialogue, foster belonging, and create spaces where artists and audiences can thrive.

Originally from the Midwest, Suttles brings to her work a lifelong love of performance and a deep belief in the power of the arts to strengthen communities.

Jessica Durdock Moreno

Jessica Durdock Moreno

Director of Artistic Planning
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Jessica Durdock Moreno joined Long Wharf Theatre in 2022, where she recently curated the exhibition Invitation to Engage: 60 Years of Long Wharf Theatre & Beyond at the New Haven Museum, which served over 700 New Haven area students and over 60 New Haven area educators over the course of one year through curator-led tours and professional development teacher trainings. A certified Critical Response Process facilitator trained by Liz Lerman and John Borstel, she focused her CRP research on disability accessibility in theatermaking, in which she considered the possibility of consent-based, anticapitalist, and emergent feedback processes as assistive technologies. In 2023, Jessica served as the Neurodiversity Consultant on New York City Center’s Encores! production of The Light in the Piazza directed by Chay Yew. A NeuroQueering theatermaker, she founded Pale Horse Craft, an award-winning Neurodiversity- and Learning Disability-centered practice, production, and performance container in 2019. A former professional modern dancer, she is currently working with choreographer Aubry Dalley on a new dance that examines the intersections of identity, America, ableism, and Autism. Recently, her play New Canaan was selected as a finalist project for the 2025-2026 Drama League Next Stage Residency. Jessica serves as the vice president of the Arthur Miller Writing Studio board. Columbia University (BA, magna cum laude); NYU Tisch Department of Dramatic Writing (MFA, John Golden Playwriting Prize).

Carolyn Stockage

Carolyn Stockage

Director of Audience Experience & Elm City Tickets
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Carolyn Stockage is a Connecticut native who graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a degree in graphic design. She's been with Long Wharf since 2015, working as the Patron Services Manager since 2018. Her favorite Long Wharf productions include Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Passing Strange, and Miller, Mississippi.

Adrian Hernandez

Adrian Hernandez

General Manager (Finance & Operations)
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Jill H. Coulter

Jill H. Coulter

External Relations Operations Manager
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Jill has worked in non-profit theater since 1982. Beginning her career with Seattle Repertory Theatre, she has been with Long Wharf Theatre since January 1998, beginning as a consultant and in August 1998 moved to Connecticut to join the LWT staff as the Box Office Manager.