Roger Yoerges (Chair) is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Litigation Department. Roger graduated from the University of Florida in 1980 and from Stetson University College of Law in 1985. After serving as a law clerk for Judge Roger Vinson in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, he worked for more than 20 years at WilmerHale, a DC-based law firm, where he was a partner prior to joining Steptoe. Roger is also the CEO of Capital Talent Agency, LLC, which is Washington, DC's first and only Equity and SAG franchised talent agency that represents actors, designers, directors, stage managers, choreographers, and authors.
Ashley Gates Jansen has worked at the Old Globe in San Diego, Great Lakes Theatre Festival in Cleveland and San Francisco's Encore Theatre. Her Directing credits include: "Balm in Gilead," "Burn This," "Waiting for Godot", "The Cradle Song," "Jesus Christ Superstar," "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" (NCSA 1998), "Three Tall Women" (NCSA 2002) "Marion Bridge" (NCSA 2004) and "After Easter" (NCSA 2005). Ashley also produced Daniel MacIvor's "Marion Bridge" in New York City and his Obie Award winning IN ON IT in San Francisco. Ms. Gates was a member of NCSA's premiere directing class, pioneered by School of Drama Dean Gerald Freedman.
Anne S. Kohn served as Marketing and PR Associate for Cleveland Opera after graduating from Hiram College (Hiram, OH). Following her time at the Opera, Anne worked for Great Lakes Theater Festival where responsibilities included: grant writing, company management, program editor, and event/project coordinator. She served as Assistant Director of Cleveland’s All City Musical production of Guys and Dolls, Assistant Director of Ingenuity: Cleveland’s Festival or Art and Technology, and Marketing Associate for the UNCSA Summer Performance Festival. She is currently the Associate Director of Administration at The Shakespeare Theatre Company. In 2011, Anne received her MFA in Performing Arts Management from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She was the founding Producing Director of No Rules Theatre Company.
Siobhan O’Brien Olson, principal of Feisty PR, has more than 20 years of experience in developing award-winning integrated marketing communications campaigns for worldwide consumer and business-to-business brands. Her expertise covers the health care, pharmaceutical, consumer products, packaged goods, financial, transportation, association, non-profit and sporting industries. She is nationally known for her ability to transform tired brands, catapult the launch of new products, motivate action and inspire loyalty for companies and products through the use of non-traditional marketing techniques in the areas of public relations, social media, events, publishing, online and experiential marketing. Her deep business knowledge and strategic capabilities have allowed her to help companies recover from crises such as airline hijackings, packaging failures, and urban myths to regain positive public perceptions. She pioneered communications research and measurement programs that have been used as best-of-industry examples in the marketing communications field. A winner of numerous awards, including Effies, Anvils, Quills, Mercuries, Clarions, CIPRAs, and Bulldogs, she is a frequent speaker at national conferences and universities. She sits on the boards of directors for The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, No Rules Theatre Company and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
Sandra Romanac joined the Palm Beach, FL office of Wachovia in 2000 and presently is a Senior Client Services Consultant with Abbot Downing in the Metro Washington DC office. With more than 12 years experience working with individuals and families with multigenerational wealth, Sandy provides both account management services and client administration for ultra-high net-worth clients. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Arts Management from Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC, has served on the Salem College Alumnae Board and volunteered with the University of North Carolina School of the Arts as well as several other arts organizations. Sandy makes her home in both McLean, VA, and Winston-Salem, NC.
Jeremy Skidmore has been based in Washington, DC for the last eleven years. In that time he served for two years as the President and co-Founder of the Capital Talent Agency, two years as the Producer of the Source Festival and six years as the Artistic Director of Theater Alliance where he produced 22 productions in five seasons that garnered 22 Helen Hayes nominations. Elsewhere in the DC area some of his favorite productions include Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at Round House Theatre, New Jerusalem at Theater J (Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Production and Washington Post Top 10 of 2010), Angels in America at Forum Theatre (Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Director and Production and Washington Post Top Ten of 2009), and The Lieutenant if Inishmore at Signature Theatre (Washington Post Top Ten of 2008). He has been a guest artist at American University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, Catholic University, St. Mary's College, McDanial College and The National Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. Outside of Washington, Jeremy has directed, produced or taught all over North Carolina and in Delaware, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Oslo, Galway, Kilimanjaro, Tokyo, Macau and Tai Pei. Jeremy is a Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA) and American University (MBA).
Brannon Wiles is a former faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he taught courses in Commercial Theatre, Negotiation, Labor Relations, and Law & the Arts in the School’s graduate program in Performing Arts Management. He has also been an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Columbia University’s graduate theatre division. Recently Brannon has served as a producer on the Broadway productions of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever starring Harry Connick, Jr. and That Championship Season. Brannon has spent the majority of his career as a theatrical general manager in New York. He earned both a J.D. and an M.F.A. in Theatre Management & Producing from Columbia University, and he received a B.A. in Music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Columbia Law School, Brannon was the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a teaching fellow in the Law & Theatre seminar. He is a member of the New York bar, the Broadway League, the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers, and the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers.
J.D. Wilson is founder and CEO of Excalibur Enterprises, Inc., and has more than 40 years experience in the direct response marketing communications field. A longtime supporter of the arts, he has served two terms as a trustee of the UNC School of the Arts, has chaired its Board of Visitors for 9 years, received its Giannini Award and holds an Honorary Degree of Doctorate in Performing Arts. A former President of the Winston-Salem Symphony and Reynolda House Museum of American Art, he has served on the board of Piedmont Craftsmen, Inc. and received the Arts Council Award in 2010. He is a member of the Winston-Salem Alliance, the leadership group focused at a high level on the community’s future. With his wife, Janie, he chaired the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Arts Council’s successful $26 million Comprehensive Campaign for the Arts, from 2007-2010, to create a new Downtown Center for the Arts, which includes HanesBrands Theatre, home to No Rules Theatre Company. As a member of the Arts Council’s Strategic Planning Committee he helped broker the community’s new branding as City of Arts & Innovation. In 2012, he assisted Visit Winston-Salem by shepherding creation of the special section on Winston-Salem featured in the October issue of US Airways Magazine, which at 98 pages was the largest in the magazine’s history, and which featured a spread on No Rules.

Advisory Council for Washington, DC
Michael Gottlieb
Peter & Violette Jacobson
Joe Morra
Will Gould & Mary Rouvelas
Larry Schlang
Elizabeth A. Karmin & Manny Strauss
Howard Wahlberg

Advisory Council for Winston-Salem, NC
Malcolm & Patty Brown
Claire Christopher
Kate Condon
John Gates
Marjorie & Jerry Silber