LISA TIMMEL, Co-Chairperson

Prior to joining the Central Park Conservancy as a native plant & landscape restoration technician, Lisa Timmel was a freelance dramaturg specializing in new play development and production. She is the creator and co-director of Theater-19, an oral history project documenting the experiences of theater workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Formerly she was the director of new work at The Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Other previous positions include director of new play development at Playwrights Horizons, interim dramaturg and advisor to the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, artistic producer at Carole Shorenstein Hayes Productions. Trained in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at Columbia University (MFA), she has worked with various theater companies and developmental organizations including New York Theatre Workshop, Sundance Theater Institute, New Dramatists, Actors Theatre of Louisville, INTAR, Classic Stage Company, and New Georges. Ms. Timmel served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and as the staff dramaturg at The Juilliard School. Ms. Timmel holds a BA in English Literature from Kenyon College.