STAFF
Spruce Peak Arts
122 Hourglass Drive
Stowe, VT 05672
For immediate assistance please call (802) 760-4634,
for general inquiries email info@sprucepeakarts.org,
for ticketing questions email boxoffice@sprucepeakarts.org.

Seth Soloway
Executive Director
Email: ssoloway@sprucepeakarts.org
Seth Soloway previously served as Associate Dean for Presenting and External Relations at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music in Nashville, TN where he established a Performing Arts Center team and systems, restructured and renovated marketing/ branding, and oversaw $3.5 million of venue renovations. Prior to the pandemic, he served as the Director of the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College in Westchester, N.Y. Some of his many proud moments leading the organization include the successful execution of the PACs 40th anniversary, overseeing the naming and subsequent renovation of the Pepsico Theater, and being named Westchester County’s top Cultural Organization in 2018.
Seth has served as the Artistic Director for Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, Associate to prolific Broadway Producer Marc Routh (Marc Routh Productions), and Director of Booking for Off-Broadway Booking. After graduate school Seth carried this passion to Newburgh, NY where he and his wife resurrected the old West Shore Train Station and redesigned it into what became the Railroad Playhouse. There he directed and oversaw the development of several new plays including America’s Brightest Star (Alex Goldberg).
Seth is a born and raised New Yorker. He spent his early childhood in Brooklyn and his teenage and college years on the lower east side of Manhattan. Soloway attended LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts where he studied theater arts as an acting major. Upon graduation, Seth moved on to Marymount Manhattan College where he graduated with a BFA in Theatre Arts with a concentration in stage directing. In the Fall of 2004 Seth enrolled in the MFA Performing Arts Management program at Brooklyn College and completed his MFA in the spring of 2006. Seth is an avid hiker/ outdoor adventure seeker, who loves to cook and watch his beloved Mets. Above all, his greatest honor is dedicated husband and dad to his wife Jen and son Stanley.

Belinda Emerson
Director of Production and Services
Email: bemerson@sprucepeakarts.org
Phone: (802) 760-4634
Belinda grew up in Vermont and has been involved with the technical side of theater for over 30 years. She has worked for Spruce Peak Arts since opening day! She loves the technical side of theater, and her experience has been all hands-on learning. She earned a degree from the University of VT in education with post-graduate work in Exercise Physiology. She worked as an electrician and rigger in the marine industry for 32 years. She is an avid sailor and has recently taken up wing foiling! Her family is her greatest source of joy.

Hayley Fien
Event Marketing Manager
Email: hayley@sprucepeakarts.org
Phone: (802) 760-4638
After living in the Midwest and graduating from Indiana University- Bloomington studying Arts Administration, Hayley spent the summer of 2017 living in Vermont on her uncle’s farm. It didn’t take long for her to fall in love, and she knew one day she’d be back. Fast-forward to November 2019 and she made the decision to call the Green Mountain State home. Within the week, as luck would have it, she found her home at Spruce Peak Arts and has been with the team ever since. She’s grateful to be a part of this incredible, resilient team and have been lucky enough to assist in a little bit of everything with her new focus being marketing. She looks forward to furthering our mission and fostering our impact with the wonderful town of Stowe. When not at work, Hayley enjoys long walks over mountains, skiing, running, and lake days. If she’s in nature, she’s (usually) happy.

Linda Hunter
Deputy Director
Email: lhunter@sprucepeakarts.org
Phone: (802) 760-4647
Linda emigrated from Scotland in 2004 having graduated with BA in Accounting and MA in Economics & Education. Her early career in Scotland was in banking and higher education, ultimately transitioning to Financial Director of a vehicle leasing and management company. Within the US, prior to joining SPAC Linda successfully developed 2 hotels into hybrid long term apartments, short term lodging and commercial spaces. As the former owner of The Bistro at Ten Acres and General Manager of Gristmill Builders, Linda enjoys a solid knowledge appreciation of the Stowe community. Linda enjoys hiking, cooking and traveling.
Gracie Loggins
Box Office Manager
Email: gloggins@sprucepeakarts.org
Phone: (802) 755-2112

Katya Luchanskaya
Director of Development
Email: katya@sprucepeakarts.org
Phone: (802) 760-4648
An arts non-profit professional with over 14 years of experience, Katya has worked in institutional and individual fundraising at top arts institutions, including BRIC Arts Media, the PROTOTYPE Festival, Cal Performances at UC Berkeley, the MacDowell Colony, and the New York Philharmonic. She has also worked as a grantmaker at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. An erstwhile pianist, Katya received her B.A. in Music and Russian Studies from Bucknell University and M.A. in Music History from Hunter College, CUNY. She loves to explore the outdoors with her family and is thrilled to make her home in beautiful Vermont.

Julianne Nickerson, MSW
Director of Education
Email: jnickerson@sprucepeakarts.org
Phone: (802) 760-4637
Julianne brings her passion for theater, arts and education to The Curious Place theater programs. She has developed the pedagogy of the arts for all ages and is always looking for new, creative ways to engage our audiences. With Spruce Peak Arts she has dabbled in marketing and led the services department with part-time efforts in education. With board support, she is now able to focus all her energy on the outreach and education programming of the theater. In her free time, Julianne volunteers with the local community theater company, Lyric Theatre, in many roles including Production Supervisor, Assistant Stage Manager, Technical Director and Special Effects co-chair. She is grateful to her adult children, James and Madeline, who brought her back to the theater world as they were growing up. And to Spruce Peak Arts to allow her to make the shift from her work in Early Childhood care and education, and healthcare systems, to follow her passion of partnering in the world of creative arts.

Katie Rosin
Director of Communications
Email: krosin@sprucepeakarts.org
Phone: (802) 760-4634
Katie Rosin/Kampfire is an award-winning producer, who has been working in production and marketing for film, television, and theater for over 20 years, founding Kampfire in 2001. After working in production on films such as American Psycho and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and on the publicity side of Miramax Films, Kampfire PR was instrumental in the launch of the Broadway musical, Brooklyn, and the National Tour of Mother Load. In 2014, she helped launch Stage17.tv, a digital entertainment destination for the world’s largest stage—the Internet. Kampfire has been integral in multidimensional campaigns for New York Innovative Theatre Award Recipients, GLAAD Award winners, back-to-back NYMF Best of Fest winners, Telly Award winners, and Drama Desk nominees. Kampfire Films works in association with MyCarl Productions and with them produced the Web Series Gemma & The Bear, Wherever You Go, and the web-satire Beckys Through History. Katie also produced the award-winning feature film, Closure, Tonya Pinkins’ horror feature Red Pill, the award-winning visual album and live show I Put A Spell On You, the talk show Chic Chat, the Reality Series We Are The Jones, the short film Liza Anonymous (World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival), Fraud (World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival), and the award-winning short film Speed Grieving. She is currently developing multiple projects in television and film including the feature film A Woman Abroad and TV series Outdated, Hot Angry Mom, and Overnight Success. Listen now to her musical podcast, Bleeding Love on the Broadway Podcast Network, where she served as the Director of Communications 2020-22. www.kampfirefilms.com www.Kampfirefilmspr.com
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K Shaw
Theater Educator and Services Associate
Email: kshaw@sprucepeakarts.org
Phone: (802) 760-4634
Tyler Debbs Squire
House Manager
Email: tyler@sprucepeakarts.org
TECHNICAL STAFF
Will Anderson
House Lighting Technician
Bill Loscomb
House Sound Engineer