Meet the whole team

Ryan J. Haddad

Ryan J. Haddad

Artistic Ensemble
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Emma Joy Hill

Emma Joy Hill

Interim Director of Marketing & Communications
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Emma Joy Hill is the Interim Director of Marketing & Communications at Long Wharf Theatre, with a background in marketing strategy, audience engagement, and brand storytelling. Her work spans influencer relations, business development, and project management, all rooted in a commitment to expanding the reach and impact of the arts. Emma is also an accomplished playwright and theatre artist whose work has been developed and produced nationwide. With a foundation in human rights advocacy, her artistic practice explores the intersection of art and activism, using storytelling as a vehicle for change. She also serves as a Professor in Playwriting at Southern Connecticut State University.

Jacob G. Padrón

Jacob G. Padrón

Creative Producer
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Jacob G. Padrón was the Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theatre from February 2019, when he succeeded Gordon Edelstein, until the end of the 2025-26 season. He remains with Long Wharf Theatre as Creative Producer to support the leadership transition and continuity of the theatre’s artistic programming. Padrón guided Long Wharf through a transition and reinvention of its producing model, leaving its longtime theatre venue and expanding its reach to serve New Haven’s diverse communities as an itinerant company, presenting work across 26 venues in seven cities. Long Wharf received a $1 million Mellon Foundation grant to advance equity and artistic programming, and Padrón was named the Person of the Year by the National Theatre Conference. In the past seven years, Padrón directed a multiracial production of She Loves Me; launched Black Trans Women at the Center, the first national festival dedicated to amplifying the voices of Black trans women; created the Lab to incubate new work; produced productions and partnerships with NAATCO, Woolly Mammoth, Alliance Theatre; guided the pandemic-era One City, Many Stages initiative that brought theatre into parks and virtual spaces; and launched the Artistic Congress with the Yale Schwarzman Center, featuring Anna Deavere Smith, Luis Alfaro, and Dominique Morisseau.

Madeline Sayet

Madeline Sayet

Artistic Ensemble
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Dexter J. Singleton

Dexter J. Singleton

Artistic Ensemble
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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.

Natalie King

Natalie King

Interim Director of Development
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Natalie King is a New York–based arts administrator and creative with over a decade of experience in development, fundraising, and strategic planning. She has held leadership roles at Theatre Development Fund, New York Deaf Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, and the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, and currently consults with Compagnia de’ Colombari and Andy Hamingson & Associates. Natalie has also worked as a general manager, stage manager, and sound engineer with organizations including TheaterWorks USA, New York Theatre Festival, and Stairwell Theatre, and performed professionally with choreographers and companies such as Pat Graney, Pennsylvania Ballet, and Hudson Vagabond Puppets. She holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Management from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, where she served as Co-Managing Director of the Yale Cabaret and Associate Managing Director of Yale Rep. She was the inaugural Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives at Yale Schwarzman Center and a Heinz Endowments Creativity Fellow. Natalie earned her B.A. in Dance from Oberlin College.

Kino Alvarez

Kino Alvarez

Director of Production
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Kino Alvarez, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, earned his MFA in Technical Design and Production from Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama in 2025. Drawing on more than a decade of leadership in live performance and cultural innovation, he founded Yale’s flagship “Caribbean Expressions” series, creating vital spaces for Caribbean culture at the University. As artistic director, he elevated New Haven’s Caribbean Heritage Festival by featuring Soca stars Mical Teja, Lyrical, and others. His immersive installation, “Synesthesia in Ferro Tympanum,” earned a prestigious Yale CCAM fellowship, and he was honored with the Dexter Wood Luke Memorial Prize for artistic excellence.

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.

Max Hunt

Max Hunt

General Management Assistant
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Amari Flynn

Amari Flynn

Ny’Keece
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Amari Flynn (she/her/hers) is a caramel-skinned Black woman of trans experience. She’s in her 20s. She has a curly, voluminous afro. She’s wearing large hoop earrings and a black dress with a low neckline.

Garnet Williams

Garnet Williams

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Garnet Williams is a writer, actor, filmmaker, and singer originally from Atlanta, Ga. She can currently be seen starring in Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway. Some other favorite roles include, Nina Simone: Nina Simone Four Women, Pythio in Head Over Heels, and Trix the Aviatrix in a one night concert at Carnegie Hall. For Lucile.

Javon Q. Minter

Javon Q. Minter

Cynthia
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Javon is a dark skinned Black Trans Femme in her early 30s. She has long red two-toned box braids. She is wearing a long black snakeskin dress & a long light green leather coat with matching fur trim along the collar, lapel and cuffs. She is seated on a pastel green stoop in the daytime.

Kineen Mafa

Kineen Mafa

Eeleista
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They wear are wearing a crown of diamonds with a large light blue saffire at the center of ut. They have Deep rich brown skin with yellowish/ golden undertones around their slightly slanted almond shaped dark dark brown eye with thick yet naturally arched eye brows. Feather pink and black lashes. The being has high prominent cheek bones and low cut short course ashe blonde hair, a wider nose designed to compliment a rounder face and ensure quality breathing. Thick full moisten lips . Ears adorned with earingring made to look like deep blue wooden serpents with yellow and white freckles

Sis Thee Doll

Sis Thee Doll

Roanna
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Beauitful Black brown eyed diva in mess ruffled top curled tendrels and a wonderful drugstore lip combo

Eva Reign

Eva Reign

Talkback Facilitator

Light brown-skinned woman with chestnut-colored box braids smiles while leaning against a brick wall. She wears a white blouse and blue jeans.

Brandy (Yijin) Zhang

Brandy (Yijin) Zhang

Creative Producer
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Brandy (Yijin) Zhang (she/her) is a diasporic Chinese arts administrator, producer, and artist. She is committed to fostering human-centered artistic content that promotes intercultural understanding and uplifts communities. After graduating from Dartmouth College, she spent 4 seasons at Northern Stage, LORT D theater in White River Junction, VT on the Artistic and Sales & Marketing teams. Her work can be seen in line-producing select main stage productions and new works, inaugurating the Jazz at the Junction concert series, spearheading partnerships with local nonprofits or indie businesses through special events and curating show-themed interactive installations, and more. She was also actively involved in theater and producing opportunities around the Northern New England area. With a lifelong passion for the performing arts and experience grounded in artistic innovation and community-driven engagement, Brandy is thrilled to be joining the Long Wharf team in continuing its mission to create and bring theater to the greater New Haven region and beyond.