Leadership
Megan Jones is a graduate of Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where she earned her BA in Arts Management. Prior to joining the BRT team, she worked as the General Manager at Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia, PA. Born and raised in Nebraska, Megan enjoys gardening, reading, and cooking.
Amy Kaissar has been affiliated with BRT in one way or another since 2009. She was the Managing Director from 2009-2014, a trustee from 2015-2020, and now Co Producing Director since 2020.
Outside of BRT, she was the lead producer of Shake and Bake: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Drama Desk Nom) and Midsummer: A Banquet (Drama Desk Nom), Producer of Telephone (“Inspired and utterly original” – Ben Brantley, NYT), and Co-Producer of The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway (starring Elisabeth Moss, Jason Biggs, and Bryce Pinkham). She was part of the financing team of the Broadway productions of Fun Home (5 Tony Awards including Best Musical), and Shuffle Along (10 Tony nominations) and the Off Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof, in Yiddish (winner Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards). From 1999 – 2008, she was also the Producing Director of Epiphany Theater Company, which she co-founded to assist the work of early career theatre artists. At Epiphany, Kaissar supported the work of over 200 emerging artists, among them the future winners Tony, Richard Rodgers, Jonathan Larson, and other prestigious awards.
In her first stint at BRT, as Managing Director from 2009-2014, she restructured the company, leading to a doubling of overall revenue, a 35% increase in subscribership and the erasure of the accumulated deficit. In 2017 she served as Interim Managing Director at Philadelphia Theatre Company, setting the stage for their successful turnaround after many years in financial distress.
Kaissar holds a BFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Producing from Columbia University where she was a Dean’s Fellow, Presidential Scholar, and Rudin Foundation Fellow. She has been on the faculties of Penn and Columbia Universities and has enjoyed guest lecturing at NYU, Carnegie Mellon, and The University of the Arts.
She is a current or previous board member of The Bucks County Arts and Culture Council, The Bucks County Commissioner’s Economic Development Committee, The Bristol Borough Strategic and Economic Development Committee, Bristol Riverside Theatre and Third Rail Projects.
Ken Kaissar became BRT’s Co-Producing Director in 2020, having worked at the theatre as a playwright, developing many of his plays in BRT’s America Rising program. At BRT, he recently directed Clue and A Few Good Men and he wrote the play A Leg Up which kicked off the 2022-23 season. He has worked at The Goodman Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, and the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. His plays have been performed or developed by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, Delaware Theatre Company, Phoenix Theatre Company, Fusion Theatre Company, Wordsmyth Theater Company, Jewish Repertory Theatre, Urban Stages and Passage Theatre. His play The Victims or What do You Want Me To Do About It (published by McFarland & Company, Inc.) was developed by Golden Thread Productions and Silk Road Rising. His adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales was commissioned by Columbia University. His other plays include A Modest Suggestion (available on Amazon), Liberal Arts and Weekend at Betty’s. He holds a BFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. Ken is also the the host of the podcast The Audition Helper available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you get podcasts.
Company Management
Development & Education
Marketing
Front of House
John Bednarik, Drew Borden, Shirley Brady, Nick Bruno, Faith Carroll, Mel Dikert, Emma Luke, Kristen Margraff, Chris McHugh, Stuart Myles, Carmen Rivera, Megan Shields, Serena Smithfield, Wendi Wiley
Front of House Associates
Joseph Barbagallo
Maintenance
Production
