Managing/Marketing Director,

Amy Wratchford has been producing, directing, and acting in New York City for the last twelve years. Most recently she produced Fraülein Else which played off-Broadway in the fall of 2006. Amy is the former Managing Director of Pook’s Hill Performance Works, a site-specific theater company based in New York City. She is also a co-founder of Tea Time Productions which focused on plays with strong female characters, including Fefu and Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes and The Riders, an original piece co-written with Heather Rogers based on their experiences as female motorcyclists. In partnership with NY Artists Unlimited, Amy created and directed Song of the Simple Truth, a bilingual theater piece constructed from the poetry of Julia de Burgos, for which she received a grant from the New York City Parks and Recreation Foundation. Amy holds a BFA in Acting from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College.

Playmaking for Girls Program Director,

Susie Spear Purcell has been acting and teaching theatre arts for over 20 years. As a teacher, she has enjoyed teaching a wide range of students. She was program director for 9 years for The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company in Los Angeles where she developed curriculum for helping imprisoned East LA boys to write plays and perform in front of large audiences. She also worked as a lead teacher for 7 years with The Imagination Workshop in Los Angeles where she helped teach theatrical arts therapy to physic patients throughout the city. Susie has taught on camera classes and Meisner Technique acting classes to adults and children in Los Angeles and Atlanta. (Actor’s Express Theatre, The Alliance Theatre, Dunwoody School for the Arts, Intown Community School, Decatur Arts Festival, private corporate events and private monologue and audition coaching).

Susie has worked with Synchronicity’s Playmaking for Girls program as a teacher and director of several programs for over 3 years. This job allows her to share theatrical arts and imagination with girls in Georgia detention centers, summer programs with girls who are out of probation and younger “at risk” teens in the after school workshops. As an actress, she has been seen in theatre throughout Atlanta. Some of her film credits include Dante’s Peak, Deep End of the Ocean and Clubland.

Family Series Director,

Clint Thornton has designed many shows for Synchronicity, including One Flea Spare, On the Verge, Breath Boom, Stop Kiss, Fall, Hard Feelings, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Alice Through the Wonderglass, and Free to Be, You and Me. His sound designs have also been heard in theaters around Atlanta, including The School for Wives at Georgia Shakespeare Festival; The Importance of Being Earnest and Red Herring at Theater in the Square; and Wishful Thinking, The Santaland Diaries, and Wonder of the World at Horizon Theater (which appeared in last year's City Series at the Alliance.) Much thanks to Rachel, Michele, Hope, and, as always, much love to Bryan.

Development Director,

Shannon M. Turner comes new to Synchronicity and Atlanta from Blacksburg, VA. She received her M.F.A. in Arts Administration with a certificate in Nonprofit Administration in spring 2007 from Virginia Tech. Most recently, Shannon has been working with a community organization, HERE: Honoring Experiences, Reflections, and Expressions, which formed in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy to facilitate community dialogue and artistic response for the community's healing efforts. Prior to her graduate program, Shannon worked for the YMCA at Virginia Tech for five years in multiple roles, including Director of Y Student Programs and Interim Executive Director. She received her B.A. in English literature with a minor in Women's Studies from Emory & Henry College in 1997.

Volunteer Coordinator,

Susan has been actively volunteering with Synchronicity since 2005. She holds a BS degree in geology with an environmental concentration from Georgia State University and an AA degree in photography from the Art Institute of Atlanta. Susan works in service of the citizens of Georgia as a geologist for the Department of Natural Resources.

Bookkeeper,

Sarah Grizzle has been keeping the books for the Synchronicity gals for the past three years. Sarah started her Atlanta theatre bookkeeping career five years ago with Actor's Express, and once she had a taste for the glamour of bookkeeping, she couldn't get enough. Utilizing her BA in Theatre from Georgia College & State University, Sarah has strong ties to much of the Atlanta theatre community. In her full-time life she can be found baking pastries at Bacchanalia’s Star Provisions. She would like to remind you to hug a bookkeeper. Without them you wouldn't get your paycheck.