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Tova Wolff

Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director

Tova is a Director and Producer working in New York and Chicago. Select directing credits include: The King’s Speech (Associate Director, National Tour & Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Monica: This Play Is Not About Monica Lewinsky (59E59 Theaters & Edinburgh Fringe Festival), A Bad Night (The Frontier), Fade (Assistant Director, Victory Gardens), Bachelorette (Walkerspace/Soho Rep.), Security! (Secret Theater), Still Rising (The Tank). In 2016 Tova won Best Director in the Midtown International Theatre Festival for her production of Between Men. She was a participant in the Chicago Director’s Lab in 2017 and a 2017/2018 Directing Fellow at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Refracted was born out of Tova’s desire to tell the unseen side of the story. She embraces nuance and complexity of thought in all of her work. With RTC, Tova aims to build a creative, theatrical home for the passionate pursuit of inclusivity, empathy, and community. www.tovawolff.com

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Graham Miller

Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director

Graham is a theatre director and the co-founder of RTC. Directing credits include: Homeless Garden (Refracted), Be A Good Little Widow (Refracted), I Am My Own Wife (Out Front Theatre Co.), The Dark by Serena Berman (Samuel French OOB Festival Finalist), Fostered Love by Claire-Frances Sullivan (TACT), Heavy is the Head…Or Why We Bow by J.S. Hinds (Amoralists ‘Wright Night at Rattlestick), and cabarets/solo pieces at such venues as Green Room 42, Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex and The Tank. Assistant/associate work includes projects with Michael Arden (Roundabout), Trip Cullman (Powerhouse), Michael Rader (Cape Playhouse) and Zi Alikhan (BASiC.) MTC Directing Fellow, SDCF Observership Recipient, Director’s Lab Chicago alumnus. The practice of looking for the gray in a world of black and white, despite the inevitable cognitive dissonance this creates, has yielded the most rewarding lessons of his life. He hopes to share that odyssey with the Refracted community by inspiring a balance of skepticism and empathy.

Katy Campbell

marketing Director

Katy is the Marketing Associate of RTC and a Chicago-based actor, singer and stage combatant. She's worked with several Chicago theatres both onstage and behind the scenes in marketing and administration. Select acting credits include The Ballad of Lefty and Crabbe, Notes and Letters (Underscore Theatre), Valhalla: The Progeny of Loki (The Plagiarists), The Kelly Girls, Lane Call (Factory Theatre). Katy hopes to cultivate community through stories. katycampbellactor.com 

 

Jo Hoch

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Jo is the Social Media Manager of RTC. You can also find her social media skills on the Instagram and Facebook accounts for 101.9 The Mix, 97.1 The Drive, and 100.3 She. She received a BFA in Acting from Oklahoma City University and performs locally in Chicago. Select acting credits include Richard III (Babes with Blades), It's a Wonderful Life (Oil Lamp), and 70 Scenes of Halloween (Theatre L'Acadie). Jo finds a way to tell a good story in anything she does, whether it's onstage or online.

 


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Advisory Board

Kayla Williamson Ameritas Marketing Director/Co-Founder

Dimitri Moise Founder & CEO, SPL INC

Dimitri Moise
Founder & CEO, SPL INC

Victoria Gruenberg
Director and Producer
for stage & audio

Aaron Hock Development Manager, James Beard Foundation

Aaron Hock
Development Manager,
James Beard Foundation

Friends of Refracted

Jason Brett, Producer/Writer/Actor,
Founder of The Apollo Theater Chicago

Ellen Spira Hattenbach,
Jewish National Fund-USA, National Campaign Director, Midwest

Jonathan Hattenbach, General Counsel, Entegra

Anne McGivern, Educator, Author and Theatre Lover

Marla Mendelson, MD, Director,
Womens Cardiovascular Health Program, NorthwesternMedicine

Lauren Streicher, MD, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Stephen Wolff, President,
National Kwikmetal Service