Susan di Rende

Susan di Rende- executive director
Susan is a an award-winning writer and director with a background in circus, opera and theater. Before coming to Los Angeles, she ran a weekly cabaret in Seattle for three years and started a women’s theatre company.

Kaat Cleenewerck

Kaat Cleenewerck - co-director
Kaat is an experienced producer originally from Brussels, Belgium, whose work includes projects with TV Brussels before coming to Los Angeles. She currently is the events coordinator for the entertainment nonprofit "Australians in Film".

Debra Miller

Debra Miller- operations manager
Debra is a performance artist and author who has performed on Broadway. Miller has worked on numerous GLBT films and as a film programmer for OUTFEST and AFI film festivals.

Jenny Hodges Jenny Hodges - venue manager
One of the best stage managers there is, Jenny works where and when she pleases, and, luckily, Broad Humor pleases her. When not managing, she writes, and is currently finishing her book on figure modeling, "Drawing from the Nude."
Donna Wheeler Donna Wheeler - filmmaker and screenwriter liaison
Donna Wheeler is a globe-trotting, award-winning MFA filmmaker based in Los Angeles who's starting a new film movement.
Janice Kennedy Janice Kennedy - organizational liaison
Among the many writing awards Janice Kennedy has won, her favorite is the Best Screenplay Award at the 2007 Dixie Film Festival for Martial Artiste, a comedy she co-wrote with Susan di Rende.  Her short, “In the Dark,” is being filmed this summer as a co-production of EAP and Hip Chik Productions.