Executive Leadership, Board of Trustees, and Staff

Sarah Rasmussen started her first theater company at 14 in her hometown of Sisseton, South Dakota, after seeing a Garland Wright production. Since then she's gone on to a directing, producing, and teaching career with critical acclaim for inventive storytelling and a generous exchange between actor and audience.  Rasmussen is the former Artistic Director of the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis, MN where she commissioned, directed, and produced new work.  She was recently named Star Tribune's Artist of the Year and is an inaugural recipient of the BOLD Leadership Circle grant.  Directing credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Dallas Theater Center, Actors Theater of Louisville and La Jolla Playhouse.  Awards include MN Theater Award for The Wolves, Princess Grace, an Ivey Award for Overall Excellence, Drama League and Fulbright fellowships.  New work development with Playwrights’ Center, The O’Neill, The Lark, and many others.  Alum of the Women’s Project, SoHo Rep., and Lincoln Center Directing Labs.   She was formerly the Resident Director for Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab new work development program and Head of MFA Directing at the University of Texas at Austin.  MFA from the University of California, San Diego.  BA in English and Theater from St. Olaf College.

Martin Miller is the Executive Director at McCarter Theatre Center. Previously, he was Executive Director/Producer at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, AR, where he transformed the theater from a company offering 50 performances a year on a $160,000 operating budget to an organization offering 350 performances annually on a $7.5 million budget. He led fundraising, financing, design, and construction for the company’s $31 million, multi-venue, permanent home, an open-all-day community gathering space (AIA NY Honor Award; 2021 International Architecture Award). Martin’s twin commitments to smart fiscal stewardship and risk-taking artistry are reflected in 13 years of sustained growth and accolades, including the Obie Award and a “Best of 2020” Critics’ Pick in The New York Times. Under Martin’s leadership, TheaterSquared was awarded the 2021 Standing Up for Racial Justice Award (Black Action Collective and the 2022 Latinx Non-Profit Trailblazer Award (LatinXNA Empowerment Forum). Martin is a graduate of Carleton College and holds a masters in arts leadership from The Theatre School/DePaul. He established the National Stages Program, a consortium of producing theatres offering reciprocal member benefits, and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, OPERA America, and the Theatre Communications Group. Prior to 2009, he served as associate producer at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he produced a variety of projects including the bilingual Romeo y Julieta by Karen Zacarías.