Mission

We develop new plays by fostering environments for playwrights to experiment and grow. We do this by immersing them into a community of artists who invest in their long-term development. Our programming produces empowered playwright collaborators and plays that are ready for production.

Values

stroller scene believes in an inclusive and collaborate process. We are committed to the following values: Accessibility, Accountability, Anti-Racism, Collaboration, Diversity, Equity, Respect, and Transparency.

  • Chris Diercksen

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Chris (he/they) is a director and dramaturg of new plays based in New York City. As the Artistic Director for Team Awesome Robot, they developed new plays by Callie Kimball, Daniel John Kelley, Madhuri Shekar, and Sam Walsh. As the Producing Director for The Secret Theatre's New Voices Project, they developed new plays by Corinna Schulenberg, Sarah Bernstein, David Lawson, and Kari Bentley Quinn. Chris is an alum of Albright College and the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, where they serve as a guest playwright mentor for the Young Playwrights Festival.

  • Richie Altmanshofer

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Richie (he/him) is obsessed with theatre and is slowly adding to his collection of hyphenates — actor, writer, improviser, musician, and producer. He’s proudly lived in New York longer than anywhere else and is grateful to be making art here. By day he is Creative Services Director for Kindbody, a fem-tech fertility startup.

  • Percival Hornak

    LITERARY MANAGER

    Percival Hornak (he/they/xe) is a dramaturg, playwright, literary manager, and podcast producer who loves ghost stories, Arthurian legend, and plays about lesbians. They just received an MFA in Dramaturgy and a Certificate in Feminist Scholarship from UMass Amherst. He is proud to co-produce the Dungeons + Drama Nerds podcast alongside Todd Brian Backus and Nicholas Orvis. Previous companies Percy has worked with include Arena Stage, Andy's Summer Playhouse, TCG, and Luna Stage.

  • Jen Diamond

    COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

    Jen (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based playwright, screenwriter, and very chill girl. She writes spooky, funny plays about friendship, girlhood, and the performance of self. Her work has been presented at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Dixon Place, American Lives Theatre, The Tank, and others. Outside of the theatre, Jen has a decade of experience in nonprofit communications at organizations focused on consumer rights, philanthropy, and human services.

    For more about Jen: click here.

  • Ashley Siflinger

    COMPANY MANAGER

    Ashley Siflinger (she/her) is a theater maker hailing from the culture capital of the great state of New York: Long Island. In 2017 she got her BFA in Acting from Tisch School of the Arts where she tried to convince everyone that she was an incredibly serious method actor. Now she works as a performer, playwright, and developer of new plays and she is much, much happier.

  • Sam Walsh

    GRAPHIC DESIGN/MARKETING

    Sam (any/all) is a New York based playwright and multi-disciplinary artist. She writes plays about the bizarre, the mundane, our humanity, and the things that make us inhumane. She has been a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace, Play Penn, the National Playwrights Conference, and Premiere Stages. Her work has been produced/developed by the Barrow Group, The Chain Theater, Team Awesome Robot, and Threshold Theater.

    To check out more of her graphic design work click here.

    To read her plays click here.