Staff
Karla Boos
Artistic Director
Karla Boos founded Quantum Theatre in 1990 and serves as Artistic Director. The company creates adventurous productions of contemporary plays from around the world or stages updated classics in innovative performance sites all over the city, and frequently makes original work. Boos often directs or acts for the company and will open the 2009–10 season by directing Naomi Iizuka’s 36 Views outdoors on Washington's Landing.
She recently created a world premiere flamenco adaptation of The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen, and just directed the American premiere of Breakfast With Mugabe by Fraser Grace. Other recent works under her leadership include the world premiere of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Dan Jemmett and staged in the Garden Theatre. This production opened in June 2007 in Pittsburgh and toured to the Festival de Otoño in Madrid in November 2007.
Quantum’s work has been recently featured in American Theatre Magazine and Stage Directions Magazine, and frequently earns distinction in local publications’ year-end tallies. Boos has won awards locally, including a Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Creative Achievement Award, Pittsburgh Magazine Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award, and a University of Pittsburgh Freddy Award. She is a 2007 Women and Girls Foundation “Women in the Material World” designee and a 2007 New Hazlett Theatre honoree for “Women in the Arts: Founders, Pioneers, Instigators.”
Read about Karla in Pop City and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
R.J. Romeo
Director of Production
R.J. Romeo is excited to be working on his second production with Quantum Theatre as Director of Production. For the past six years, R.J. toured with Maximum Entertainment, managing various productions. Locally, R.J. served as a video technician for Quantum’s last production, Maria de Buenos Aires, and as Stage Manager for CLO’s Miss Saigon, The Producers, Hairspray, and The Student Prince.
Stevie Herendeen
Administrative Associate
Stevie Herendeen is thrilled to join the Quantum Theatre team for their 21st season. Before relocating to Pittsburgh, Stevie served as founding director and board member to Desotorow Gallery in Savannah, GA. She received her Masters degree in Arts Administration from Savannah College of Art and Design and her Bachelor’s degree in Art History from West Virginia University.
Sam Turich
Teaching Artist
Sam spent three years on the faculty of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, and currently teaches at Pitt and the Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts. He has taught at the Gotham City Improv Theatre and School, the New York Film Academy, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and Rogers/CAPA. Sam is a graduate of Columbia University and the British American Drama Academy. He is pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Film and Digital Technology at Chatham University.
At Gotham City Improv Theater and School, Sam created Off the Top of Our Heads, which won the 6th Big Apple Improv Festival and the title "Best Improv Group in New York." Other directing includes The Magnificent Hour, Insecurity Guards, Itamar Moses’ Dorothy & Alice and the sketch comedy troupe Pressing Charges. In Pittsburgh, Sam has directed As You Like It at the Charity Randall Theatre, Darwin and the Kid, Shakespeare's Lovers & Fighters, and two projects co-directed with Tamara Goldbogen, Alice and Tomato Plant Girl.
Sam’s most recent short film project, MOMBIES, represents Lawrenceville in the feature film Greeting from Pittsburgh: Neighborhood Narratives, which screened to sold-out theaters and aired on WQED-TV.
