Tova Wolff
Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director
(she/her) 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
Graham Miller
Co-Founder/Artistic Advisor
(he/him) 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
(she/her) Katy is the Marketing Director of RTC and a Chicago-based actor, singer and stage combatant. As an actor, she’s worked with Factory Theater (where she’s an Artistic Associate), Blank Theatre, Hell in a Handbag, The Plagiarists, Red Theatre, Underscore and more. She is a founding member of the horror theatre collective, Abyssal Zone. Katy hopes to cultivate community through stories. katycampbellactor.com
Jo Hoch
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
(she/her) Jo is the Social Media Manager of RTC. 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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ARTISTIC ASSOCIATEs
Advisory Board
Kayla Williamson Ameritas Marketing Director/Co-Founder
Dimitri Moise
Founder & CEO, SPL INC
Aaron Hock
Development Manager,
James Beard Foundation
Victoria Gruenberg
Director and Producer
for stage & audio
Friends of Refracted
Jason Brett
Ellen Spira Hattenbach
Jonathan Hattenbach
Anne McGivern
Marla Mendelson
Lauren Streicher
Stephen Wolff
