BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Wilbury Theatre Group's Board of Directors was formed in 2013, 3 years after The Wilbury Group began presenting work. 

The original members of the board ranged from committed audience members to the artists who worked with us. Together they shared a vision for a new theatre in Providence committed to our community, cutting-edge works, and audience engagement and accessibility. 

Today our board is made up of many of those same artists and committed audience members, and has expanded to include distinguished representatives from Rhode Island's leading businesses and organizations.

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS
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Milly Massey, President
Daniel Procaccini, Vice President
James Tackach, Secretary
Alexandra Binek, ​Treasurer
Nancy Compton
Freeman T. Freeman
Tom Roberts
Josh Short, ex oficio
Eugene Spector
Christine Treglia

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BOARD MEMBER BIOS:

Nancy Compton  received her BA from Boston University in English Literature and MFA in Choreography and Dance from Smith College. She founded the Nancy Compton Dance Theatre in 1983 which won grants and Fellowships from the National Endowment For The Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and private Foundations. During this period she taught at the private high school BB&N, Smith College, Hampshire College, UMass Amherst, Harvard University and the Harvard Summer Dance Institute, and had choreographic residencies at the University of Maryland, the University of Lynchburg and summer festivals.  After moving with her family to Providence, RI in 1999, her interests have included: joining the RISD Museum Associates, Perennial Planters/GCA, and collaborating with many RI community organizations on a variety of projects. 

Freeman T. Freeman received his Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Buffalo 1978, his certified Social Work License in 1985, and his License of Clinical Social Work from the University of the State of New York in 2004. From 1990-2014 he was self-employed in his own Private Practice in psychotherapy, counseling, community social work, mental health consulting, and crisis management, with a specialization in sexual trauma treatment. He specialized in school social work as part of the trauma management team in the Rochester City School District in Rochester, NY from 1990-2002. In addition to his work as a social worker, he's been an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church since December 4, 2010. 


Daniel J. Procaccini is a partner with the law firm Adler, Pollock, & Sheehan P.C. His broad disputes practice includes representing businesses and individuals in complex commercial litigation, product liability actions, intellectual property conflicts, land use contests, and constitutional challenges.  He advises clients across a variety of industries, including product manufacturers, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, non-profits, and technology companies.  He also regularly represents public agencies and state departments.  Dan has an equally dynamic pro bono practice in which he has represented individuals as well as non-profit companies in a variety of matters, including municipal disputes and actions alleging violations of state consumer protection laws.  He is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland and Boston College Law School. 

Milly Massey, after working twenty-years as a New York advertising executive, is now Director of Fine and Performing Arts at Gordon School in East Providence, Rhode Island.  She has performed locally with the Wilbury Group, the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theater, and Ocean State Theatre Company, among others.  Milly also has been part of the steering committee for Fringe PVD and the Rhode Island Teaching Artist Center.  She teaches at Trinity Repertory’s Young Actor’s Summer Institute and directs the annual YASI Players production.  A graduate of Princeton University, Milly was a founding member of Princeton Summer Theatre and a board member of Theatre Intime.  She joined the Wilbury Theatre Group Board in 2015.

Tom Roberts is Senior Lecturer in History at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received the 2017 Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching.  Among his eight books is Anthony Quinn’s Eye: A Lifetime of Creating & Collecting Art, published in 2004.  He was executive producer of the documentary, Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date, nominated for the Academy Award in 1986.  His play A State of Hope, based on letters of 19th-century Irish immigrants, toured widely in the 1990’s. Prior to RISD, he was founding director of Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. He earned an A.B. at Holy Cross College and an M.S, at Boston University. 
 
James Tackach is an original Wilbury Theatre Group board member and the first board president.  He currently serves as the board’s secretary.  Dr. Tackach is a Professor of English at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI.  He teaches courses in American literature.  He writes about American authors (James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, August Wilson) and has authored and edited several books, including two on Abraham Lincoln:  Lincoln’s Moral Mission:  The Second Inaugural Address (2002) and Lincoln and the Natural Environment (2019).

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