“I practice what I learned in the WP Lab every single day. I would not be the artistic producer I am now without WP Theater. If the rising tide lifts all boats, the community at WP lab is the ocean I feel lucky to be a part of. Let them lead the American Theater, and see how that tide will rise!”

– Maria Manuela Goyanes, Artistic Director of LCT3

Established in 2006, the Producers Lab works to extend the influence of emerging and mid career theater artists. Armed with practical tools and powerful connections, Producers Lab members are empowered to advance specific theatrical projects and special events at WP and beyond. The Producers Lab is founded on a firm belief in the power of creative producing, and strives to make its members equally at home analyzing plays and financial statements.

Anne Ciarlone

Anne Ciarlone (Producer) is a NYC-based producer, general manager, and director focused on creating new plays and dynamic communal events. Anne was most recently the Festival Producer of Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2025 eight-show season, including an immersive ice-dance show and world premiere of Spirit of the People by Jeremy O. Harris. They were previously the Artistic Producing Fellow at La Jolla Playhouse, and have held positions at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Transport Group, and Theatre Communications Group, where they produced TCG’s 2022 National Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Anne is a co-founder of Shuga Pie Supreme, through which they produced and directed Coriolanus: The Midterm Election Extravaganza at The Brick in 2018. Anne holds an MFA in Theater Management from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University and a BA in Theatre Arts from Marymount Manhattan College, where they were awarded the Gold Key Award for Directing.

Sanam Laila Hashemi

Sanam Laila Hashemi (Producer) is an Iranian-American actor, producer, and writer based in New York City. She’s passionate about developing new stories that center underrepresented perspectives. Currently, she is the Associate Artistic Director at Working Theater where she serves as the lead producer across artistic, community, and educational programming. Onstage, she’s performed with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Virginia Rep, TheaterWorks Hartford, Mosaic Theatre Company, Mile Square Theatre, and Theatre SilCo. TV credits include Succession (HBO), Dear Edward (AppleTV), Full Circle (HBO), and Power Origins (Starz). She is an inaugural ​Playwright ​for Cadence Theatre Company’s Pipeline New Works Fellowship, writing two plays under the mentorship of David Lindsay-Abaire: Cross Stitch Bandits (co-written with Steven Burneson, 2023 RTCC nomination for Best Original Play) and Thursday. She holds degrees in Theater Performance and International Studies from Virginia Tech.

Madelyn Paquette

Madelyn Paquette (Producer) is a Lilly Award-winning creative producer and administrator whose work is centered on building community and creating opportunities for artists of historically-excluded genders. Madelyn is the Resident Producer at The Center at West Park, where she produces the annual Evolution Festival, the Object Movement Puppetry Festival, and performances, readings, film screenings and more featuring artists such as Mark Ruffalo, Laurence Fishburne, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Robert Downey Jr. and more. She is also the Managing Producer of Moxie Arts NY, where she has produced more than twenty new plays since 2017 in venues around NYC. Previously, she served as Managing Director of The 24 Hour Plays, where she produced time-limited productions in theaters worldwide from Broadway to high schools.

Kerrigan Quenemoen

Kerrigan Quenemoen (Producer) (she/her) is a Tony-nominated, live performance producer from Houston, TX. Her notable NYC producing credits include Dad Don’t Read This (Greenwich House Theatre/St. Luke’s Theatre), Suffs (Broadway, Tony Nomination), Two Girls (The Goat Exchange & Ars Nova/Cherry Lane Theatre), THIS BUG IS GAY (ANT Fest @ Ars Nova), We Do The Same Thing Every Week (Attractive Nuisance & ART/New York), The Slow Dance (59E59), Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Double Feature), MEAT (The Tank), Tanya’s Lit Clit (Experimental Bitch), and Don’t Do This To Us! (The Tank). Kerrigan previously served as the Producing Assistant at Williamstown Theatre Festival before taking on her current role as Associate Producer in the Live Arts department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jehan O. Young

Jehan O. Young (Producer) (she. her.) hails from Stone Mountain, Georgia by way of Fremont and San Bernardino, California.  She has performed internationally and appeared on numerous stages across New York City, including countless esteemed basements with working pipes and a black curtain.  

Additionally, Jehan (/juh•HAHN/) is the Company & Cultural Competency Manager with The Bushwick Starr and also serves as Corps & Producing Manager for Kotchegna Dance Company.

Select Performance Credits: Behind The Sheet, Ensemble Studio Theater; Is It Supposed To Last, PlayCo; Night Keeper, Aaron Landsman/Chocolate Factory Theater; THE COTILLION*, New Georges/The Movement Theater Company | *2024 Drama League Nomination: Distinguished Performance; The Voices In Your Head**, Egg+Spoon Theater Company/These Guilty Creatures | **2025 Drama Desk Award Nominee: Unique Theatrical Experience; New Victory Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, 92nd Street Y, Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards, Global Citizen Festival – Kotchegna Dance Company

BFA, Spelman College | MFA, Columbia University