Fresh Ink Staff
Louise Hamill (Artistic Director and Co-Founder, she/her) is a creative with a passion for developing, watching, and supporting new work. She studied theatre at Connecticut College, where she fell in love with acting and fashion history, and at the British American Drama Academy in London, where she fell in love with... well, everything. She has since worked with many companies both on and off stage in Boston and is a judge for METG’s High School Drama Festival. She is constantly looking for ways to expand her horizons and jewelry collection, watches as many Red Sox and Premier League games as she can, and is known to be mildly obsessed with giraffes and her cat.
Jazzmin Bonner (Managing Director, she/her) is a native Bostonian who loves cooking up transformative theater and soups. She is a proud Ithaca College graduate and an Alumna of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Theater Institute (NTI). She is passionate about the dialogue between theater companies and the communities they serve. When she is not doing theater, she can be found at the beach walking(carrying/dragging) her rabbits or watching the latest episode of Jersey Shore.
Tatiana Isabel Gil (Co-Literary Director of Submissions and Operations, she/her) is a queer Latine writer, dramaturg, and actor with a passion for new work development, art that moves people to take action, and decolonization as a form of healing and empowerment. Her work centers around the Latine LGBTQ+ experience within the Latine community in the United States. Recently, her play, Lithosphere Heart was a semi-finalist at Playwrights Realm. She is currently at the University of New Mexico working on her MFA in Dramatic writing and is a city of Albuquerque resident artist creating a community centered project and play about Latine people's relationship to their indigenous ancestors/identities.
Hannah Levinson (Co-Literary Director of Dramaturgy and Play Development, she/her) grew up in North Carolina and came to Boston by way of Northeastern University, where she received her degree in English, Theatre, and Writing. She's previously held arts administration and creative roles with Actors' Shakespeare Project and the National Women's Theatre Festival, and currently works at Boston-based creative writing nonprofit GrubStreet. As an artist, collaborator, and writer, Hannah strives to bring an ethic of consent, care, and justice into whatever project she's working on. She wears a variety of hats, including playwright, dramaturg, director, avid home-chef, forager, and devoted plant parent. When she's not dreaming about storytelling, she's probably cooking up something tasty in her cozy home in Jamaica Plain for her friends and chosen family.
Bella Pisani (Operations Manager, she/they) grew up in Connecticut and the rehearsal halls/stages of various community theaters. After getting a taste of stage managing in college, she turned to the dark side (read: anything production/tech) and hasn't looked back since. Since first moving to Boston, they have been fortunate to work in various capacities for Chamber Theatre, Blue Spruce Theatre, Underlings Theatre Co., The Huntington, Emerson, and of course, Fresh Ink. Bella is motivated by collaborative art made by community, especially that which allows artists to grow in their craft and challenges audiences to participate and learn. When not theatre-ing, she can be found folk dancing (with swords!), falling down various creative rabbit holes, or vegging out with her black cat familiar, BeBe Neupurrth.
Stephanie Hettrick (Production Advisor, she/her) has been a member of the technical theatre scene in Boston since moving to the area from Georgia in 2014. Stephanie has worked as a freelance stage manager, carpenter, electrician, props designer, production manager, and robot wrangler at various companies across the Boston area. Her full time gig now is working with the amazing students at Northeastern University as the Production Coordinator for the Department of Theatre. Prior to joining NU, she worked during the pandemic as a Mail Carrier for the USPS. When not solving problems or (still) answering questions about how the mail system works, Stephanie loves to play video games with her partner and snuggling with her foster "old-man cat," Legion the Demon.
Andrea Sala (Production Manager, she/her) has had the privilege to work as a lighting designer, production manager and more with incredible companies and institutions, including Dance Theater of Harlem, Urban Bush Women, Jacob’s Pillow, The Yard, Central Square Theater, Fresh Ink Theater Company, Free Soil Arts Collective, and local dance artists at the Boston Center for the Arts and New York City Arts. Her current full-time job is being the Lighting Supervisor for Dance Theatre of Harlem. She is also involved as a performer/dancer within the Boston community. When not being involved in the arts community, Andrea loves watching movies with her partner (or alone) and bullet journaling in her sun porch.
Jackson Roberts (Co-Marketing Coordinator, he/him) originated in the vast and not-yet-unlively-hot land of Texas and was whisked away to Boston at the age of nineteen out of a desire to experience rainwater. While getting much more rain than expected, he decided he may as well get educated, and graduated in 2022 from Northeastern University with a degree in Behavioral Neuroscience with Theatre and History minors. It was a-foretold that he would be destined to do Theatre when his middle school Theatre teacher said, “You should do theatre.” When not engaging in the theatrical arts or making money for The Man, he likes to play piano and guitar, bake, write, draw, run, walk, read, bother his friends, or have an existential crisis.
Erin Solomon (Co-Marketing Coordinator, she/her) is a graphic designer based in Boston. Originally from Florida, she made a brief pit-stop in Colorado before finding herself in Boston for college. She recently graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in Theatre and Communication Studies. While at Northeastern, she served as the President of Silver Masque Theatre Company, a student organization dedicated to producing original student work. She is passionate about expanding the impact of theatrical storytelling through marketing. As a recent post-grad, Erin spends her new-found spare time cooking, going to the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and biking!