STAFF

Josh Short, Founder / Artistic Director

Josh Short is the Founder and Artistic Director of Providence's award-winning Wilbury Theatre Group, where he’s produced hundreds of workshop and full-scale productions of work by local and world-renown artists with a commitment to artistic excellence and community engagement.

​In addition to his work as a producer with the Group Josh has directed many productions, including; ​The Humans, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Lifted, Dolores Goes to Poetry City, Krapp's Last Tape, Decameron, Providence; RESCUE! Or, The Fish; Fun Home; The Pleiades; The Pirates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty; The Skin of Our Teeth; New and Dangerous Ideas; Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Blasted; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; This Beautiful City; Detroit; Ui [oo-ey]; and The Threepenny Opera. As an actor with the Wilbury Group he appeared in Constellations, The Caretaker, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Straight White Men, Ui [oo-ey], and the group's inaugural production, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. 

In 2014 Josh led The Wilbury Group's efforts to establish FRINGEPVD The Providence Fringe Festival  with 50 handpicked artists in just 5 venues throughout Providence. In the five years since, FRINGEPVD has grown to become a voting member of the United States Association of Fringe Festivals, the World Fringe Congress, and stands as the largest fringe theatre festival in New England.

In addition to his work with The Wilbury Group and FRINGEPVD, Josh has worked with Gloucester Stage Company, Perishable Theatre, The Gamm Theatre, The LaJolla Playhouse, The Gaslamp Quarter Drama Department, The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and The Providence Black Repertory Company, where he served as Associate Producer  from 2008-2010. A proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union, he also serves as a member of Congressman James Langevin's Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, as a mentor with the Rhode Island Foundation's Emerging Leaders program, and is a graduate of the Pi II 2020 class of Leadership Rhode Island. He has been recognized by GoLocalProv among 20 Who Made in a Difference in 2020, by Providence Monthly as ​Who to Watch in 2021,  was among the  recipients of the 2021 PBN 40 Under Forty Awards, and is the 2022 recipient of the Tom Roberts Prize for Creative Achievement in the Humanities presented by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Josh lives in southern R.I. with his wife Christine and their three children: Olivia, Raegan, and Jackson.

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​Christine Treglia, General Manager

Christine Treglia joined Wilbury Theatre Group in 2013 as an actor and has served as the Front of House Manager since the 2013/14 season, and in the same capacity for FringePVD since its inaugural year in 2014.  Since joining the Board of Directors in 2014, she has been a member of the Fundraising Committee behind Wilbury’s annual gala.  During the daytime, you can find her serving the Rhode Island community as a Human Services Policy & Systems Specialist at the RI Department of Human Services.  Her passion for the arts has been lifelong, and her commitment to expanding opportunities for both artists and audiences in Providence and beyond is what drives her to support and promote Wilbury Theatre Group.  She served as the company's Front of House Manager from 2013 until 2024, and has also appeared in a number of productions, including world premieres of Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight (Mary Garrard); RESCUE! Or, The Fish; 10,000 Things (Chloe); and Dolores Goes to Poetry City. Additional productions include Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812; Church (Rev. Christine); Cabaret (Kit Kat Girl, u/s Fr. Schneider); Passing Strange (Heidi); The Threepenny Opera (Ensemble); New Works Festival, COLD (Jane); Other theaters (select): Vicki in The Full Monty, The Queen in Cinderella, The Buddy Holly Story, Rocky Horror Show, Children of Eden, Clue the Musical (Courthouse Center for the Arts); Andrea in Once on This Island, Man of La Mancha (Academy Players).  Christine was also a founding member of The Bit Players, Newport's award winning improv comedy troupe, and a cast member of the Ocean State Follies for six years. 

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Niki Healy, Director of Communications & Advancement

​Niki Healy is a performing arts marketing and publicity professional with a focus on increasing access to the performing arts. She was a lead publicist at Davidson & Choy Publicity, Southern California’s leading Performing Arts PR firm for several years, working with clients such as: Pasadena Playhouse, Hollywood Bowl, Geffen Playhouse, The Broad Stage, Cirque du Soleil in Los Angeles and Orange County, The Wallis, Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, Walt Disney Imagineering’s Design Competition, and Disney’s El Capitan Theatre. Prior to her work at Davidson & Choy, she served as the Marketing Manager for A Noise Within Repertory Theatre in Pasadena and Associate Artistic Director for Theater 150 - Ojai, California’s professional theater company. Niki is also a composer/lyricist/performer. Her latest work, Bird Jail: A Musical Punishment was performed at the 2024 FRINGEPVD: The Providence Fringe Festival, winning the Audience Award for “Best Musical Performance”. She also wrote the music for Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight, a musical about the life of Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, with book/lyrics by Darcie Dennigan (Wilbury Theatre Group).

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Brien Lang, Director of New Works

Directing with Wilbury include ​The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Futurity, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, Passing Strange, A Public Reading of…Walt Disney, We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay! Acting with Wilbury –Stupid F@#$ing Bird (Trig), 10,000 Things(Priest) Cabaret (Ernst Ludwig), Threepenny Opera (Tiger Brown), Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (John Calhoun), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Donny). Also with Wilbury – Sound & Music Design for Ill Seen, Ill Said and Not I, Co-Music Director of This Beautiful City (with Milly Massey) and Music Director for DeStefano on the Air and The Teller.  He also composed original music for Caucasian Chalk Circle at URI.  Other directing projects (select) Medea, Waiting for Godot and Polish Joke – NewGate Theatre, The Gays of Our Lives – Boston and Providence Pride Festivals, The Frogs – adapted and directed for a City of Providence sponsored tour. His original musical Road House: The Return of the Concert of the Musical received its premiere as part of Wilbury New Works and his musical The My Way Murders debuted in the PVD Fringe 2016.  

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Mycah Hogan, Education Director

Mycah Hogan is an educator and theater-maker who works with performers to help them discover their best, most authentic and enthusiastic selves. He first encountered the art of clown at the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam, where Mycah began a lifelong study of the comic world with Christopher Bayes. Mycah credits a number of other world-class teachers as major impacts on both his pedagogy and his approach to making work for the last 15 years. Big ups to Kevin Kuhlke (Acting & Directing), Mary Overlie (Six Viewpoints), Emmanuelle Delpech (Clown), Quinn Bauriedel (Improvisation), Anya Saffir (Practical Aesthetics), and Justine Wolf Williams (Play) just to name a few.
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As an actor, Mycah has appeared on stage in New York (off-Broadway: Roundabout, the New Group), regionally (Williamstown Theater Fest), and locally (The Wilbury Group, The Gamm Theater, Trinity Repertory). He has acted alongside talents like Sarah Paulson, John Cullum, Jeremy Strong, Andrew Garfield, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Roger Rees, Lily Rabe, Jason Butler Harner, and Lili Taylor, among others; and has been directed by Academy Award nominee Kathleen Turner and Tony nominee Scott Elliott.

Mycah is on faculty at Brown/Trinity Rep's MFA Program, where he teaches Clown and Physical Play. He is also the Dean of Expeditions and Enrichment at a public charter middle school in Providence, RI, and serves as the Education Programs Manager for The Wilbury Theatre Group, where he can be found on Monday nights teaching his hit class EMBODIED ACTION: An Acting Class for Literally Anyone.

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Renee Bessette, Volunteer Manager

A longtime volunteer with the Wilbury Group, Renee supports front of house activities and manages Wilbury’s volunteer program for its main stage series and the FringePVD festival. She is a Providence resident, University of Rhode Island grad, and a member of The Clamarati, responsible for the annual Lil Rhody Clam Cake Crawl.

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