STAFF DIRECTORY
Ken Davenport
Producer
KenDavenport@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 701
First Broadway Show: The Phantom of the Opera
Favorite Play: A Few Good Men
Favorite Actor/Actress: Tracy Weiler, aka My Wife
Secret Talent: Breakdancing
Can’t Live without: Coca-Cola
Hero: Each one of my staff members
Favorite Quote: “It is my instinct that the theatre has always survived on mavericks – people with a passion for the theatre who go their own way.” – Cameron Mackintosh
Favorite Food: Buffalo Wings
Benjamin Brooks
Company Manager – Avenue Q
BBrooks@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 708
Favorite Food: Pizza
First Broadway Show: Guys and Dolls (1992 Revival with Nathan Lane)
Secret Talent: Professional Mascot
Ryan Conway
General Manager
RConway@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 714
First Broadway Show: Titanic
Favorite Playwright: Arthur Miller
Can’t Live Without: Iced Coffee!
Summer Groh
Community and Product Manager
Summer@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 743
Favorite Musical: Chicago
Can’t Live Without: My daily cup of tea
Quote: “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” – Winnie the Pooh
Monica Hammond
Director of Marketing
Monica@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 732
First Broadway Show: Proof
Secret Talent: Painting replicas of vintage sideshow banners!
Favorite Quote: “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” – Shakespeare
Chris Hillner
Groups Sales Director – Your Broadway Genius
Chris@BroadwayGeniusGroups.com
212-874-5348 x 721
First Broadway Show: Cats (don’t feel sorry for me, I like it)
Favorite Playwright: Neil Simon
Secret Talent: Classically Trained Singer
Cori Ilardi
Davenport Theatre Operations Manager
Cori@DavenportTheatre.com
212-874-5348 x 706
First Broadway Show: Beauty and the Beast
Favorite Food: Buffalo chicken pizza
Secret Talent: Juggling
Lindsay Kiernan
Office Manager/Executive Assistant to Ken Davenport
Lindsay@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 710
First Broadway Show: Annie Get Your Gun
Favorite Musical: Wicked (but I do love Waitress)
Favorite Food: My daily artichoke
Matt Kovich
Chief Operating Officer
Matt@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 705
Favorite Play: August: Osage County
Favorite Food: I’m a sucker for fresh vegetables right out of the garden.
Secret Talent: I play piano, clarinet, sax and bassoon!
Chris Morrissey
Marketing Assistant
Chris@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 730
First Broadway Show: One of the last performances of the original production of Cats
Can’t Live Without: Kit Kats, Chinese takeout, and dare I say…theatre?
Favorite Quote: “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken” – Oscar Wilde
Valerie Novakoff
Associate Producer
Valerie@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 741
Favorite Food: Ice cream
Can’t Live Without: Dogs
Hero: Joe Papp
Monika Robbins
Finance and Operations Associate
MRobbins@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 742
First Musical: Kiss Me, Kate (1999 revival)
Can’t Live Without: Dogs, Theater, and Travel
Favorite Playwright: Joshua Harmon
Robert E. Schneider
Associate General Manager
Robert@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 726
First Broadway Show: The Wiz (original production, original cast)
Hero: Bashir, the coffee cart guy on 43rd Street & Broadway
Can’t Live Without: Water
Margaret Skoglund
Company Manager – Once On This Island
Margaret@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 740
Favorite Quote: “If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein
Hero: Shane Battier
Favorite Food: Chocolate cake
Paul Strohmenger
Chief Operating Officer
Paul@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348
Favorite Quote: “A party without a cake is just a meeting”
Can’t Live Without: Dunkin Donuts
First Broadway Show: Les Miserables
MaryCatherine Sughrue
Group Sales Manager – Your Broadway Genius
MaryCatherine@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 716
First Broadway Show: The Lion King
Favorite Quote: “Ah, music. A magic far beyond what we do here!” – Albus Dumbledore
Can’t Live Without: Oreos dipped in crunchy peanut butter
Eric C. Webb
Director of Creative Development
Eric@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 723
First Broadway Show: The Phantom of the Opera
Favorite Play: Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Hero: Batman
Frank Wright II
Assistant Company Manager – Once On This Island
Frank@DavenportTheatrical.com
212-874-5348 x 739
First Broadway Show: Miss Saigon
Favorite Musical: The Lion King
Favorite Book: Wake of the Wind by J California Cooper