42nd Street Moon - Artistic and Executive Staff

42nd Street Moon is lead imaginatively by two Artistic Directors, Greg MacKellan and Stephanie Rhoads. Mr. MacKellan’s career in musical theatre extends back nearly twenty years. His extensive knowledge of “golden age” musical theatre and songwriters led to his working as a music consultant to Andrea Marcovicci and Beauty and the Beast’s Paige O’Hara. In 1992 he relocated to San Francisco.

As a musical theatre performer, Stephanie Rhoads recently completed a successful run as the Baroness Elsa in The Sound of Music at the Woodminster Amphitheatre. She has also recently appeared on a trapeze as the famous Swedish soprano, Jenny Lind, in Barnum, and as the ghostly Lily in The Secret Garden, and in many other lead roles around the Bay Area.

In 1993, attracted to a shared vision, Greg MacKellan and Stephanie Rhoads co-founded 42nd Street Moon to produce staged concerts of lost and forgotten musicals by beloved American composers like Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, and Irving Berlin. While these artists created many of the most popular songs and musicals of all time, MacKellan and Rhoads knew that the road to their stature as pillars of the American musical theatre included many other, lesser-known gems as well.

Lauren Hewitt, Managing Director, provides 42nd Street Moon's executive management. As the past Director of Development of the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, she led a capital campaign to build the Aurora's new home theatre. While serving as, Executive Director of EARPLAY, she presented works by emerging Bay Area composers as well as established composers such as Andrew Imbrie and Lou Harrison. Hewitt frequently sits on funding panels for the Cultural Equity Grants Program of the San Francisco Arts Commission.

San Franciscans remember Hewitt as the owner and operator of the Clementina's Baybrick Inn, a favorite nightspot where she gave emerging artists the opportunity to break into performance and seasoned artists the challenge of presenting new work. Among the memorable Baybrick performers include Marga Gomez, Ellen DeGeneres, Paula Poundstone, Bonnie Hayes, and Linda Tillery. The Baybrick was awarded a San Francisco Cable Car Award for Hewitt's curatorship of local artists' work.

As the former Director of the Jon Sims Center for the Arts, she founded AIRspace, a new works residency program for performing artists. Under the fiscal sponsorship of the Jon Sims Center, she produced a new opera, Wuornos, on the main stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2001).

A fourth-generation Californian, Hewitt graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelors Degree in Directing Theatre, and she holds a Masters Degree in Arts Administration from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.

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