Staff and Board of Directors

Rick has worked as an award-winning, DC-based actor, director, filmmaker, and arts manager for over three decades.

He received a 2018 Helen Hayes Award for his direction of Lela & Co. and a 2020 Helen Hayes Award nomination for his direction of Agnes of God, both for Factory 449. Other directing credits include Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue’s The Brontes (New York Musical Theatre Festival), Reykjavik (Rorschach Theatre), Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight (WSC Avant Bard), Driving Miss Daisy featuring Karen Grassle (Riverside Center for the Performing Arts), Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (Adventure Theatre MTC), Dead Man Walking (American University) and Closet Land (Factory 449). In 2015/16, he was selected to participate in The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s inaugural Directors’ Studio program.

As an actor, he has performed Off-Broadway and regionally, receiving a Helen Hayes Award for his turn as Hedwig in Signature Theatre’s production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, as well as nominations for his work in Angels in America (Signature Theatre), Me and Jezebel (MetroStage) and Oliver! (Adventure Theatre MTC). For ten years, he played Mr. Fezziwig in Ford’s Theatre’s annual production of A Christmas Carol and was most recently seen as Miss Tracy Mills in Round House Theatre’s The Legend of Georgia McBride.

His debut film, signage, which he wrote, directed, and produced, has screened in over 60 film festivals worldwide, receiving 6 film festival awards and was subsequently licensed by MTV’s LOGO Channel.

He is a founder and the current Producing Artistic Director of Factory 449, the recipient of multiple Helen Hayes Awards, including the John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, and the Executive Director of the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (WAPAVA).

Rick is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA). He received a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Virginia, an M.A. in Film & Video Production from American University, and has completed the coursework for an M.A. in Arts Management, also from AU.

As Virginia Rep's Artistic Director, he provides leadership of our programming, including our strategic planning processes. He is also our key liaison with the national theatre industry.

Ext. 1262, rlhammerly@virginiarep.org

After more than a decade as managing director for the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va., Amy pivoted in early 2021 to launch The Wratchford Group, a nationally known arts management consultancy with regional theater clients throughout Virginia as well as Florida, California and Chicago.

Prior to leading the American Shakespeare Center, she was managing director of Synchronicity Theatre in Atlanta, and spent a decade in New York, acting, directing, and producing. Amy holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a Master in Fine Arts in performing arts management from Brooklyn College.

Amy has been immersed in the Virginia theater scene for 13 years and has a history with Virginia Rep, having participated in several of our strategic planning processes. She has an incredible passion for the arts, deep compassion for the people who make a theater run, and a keen understanding of the role we play within our community. Her expertise in interim theater leadership, financial analysis and organizational structure assessment and reorganization is precisely what we need right now as we chart an exciting future and launch a national search for our next managing director.

Ext. 1238, awratchford@virginiarep.org

Martha Quinn - Chair
Vivian White - Vice Chair and Treasurer
Meredith Miles - Corporate Secretary
Laura Lee Chandler - Immediate Past Chair

Susie Bogese
Corey Booker
Jason De La Cruz
Dr. Barbara M. Glenn
EmJay Johnson LaChelle Lewis
Kathy Messick Thomas Millisor
Kendall Baltimore Neely
Susan Rickman Katie Studer
Ed White
Vivian White
Leanne Yanni, MD

Artistic Director - Rick Hammerly - ext. 1262

Artistic Director of Education - Todd D. Norris - ext. 1140

Production Manager - Ginnie Willard

Production Associate- Hannah Hoffert

Production Associate- Donna Warfield

Technical Directors - Tommy Hawfield, Hans Paul

Carpenters - Michael Cienfuegos-Baca, Shawn Goodman

Carpentry Apprentice - Hannah Patteson

Scenic Charge Artist - Amy Gethins Sullivan

Scenic Artist - Dasia Gregg

Props Supervisor - Cai Hayner

Scenic/Props Apprentice - Alondra Castro

Production Electrician - Kacey Yachuw

Lighting Apprentice - Dennis Cheeks

Audio Visual Supervisor - Jonathan Pratt

Audio Visual Apprentice - Trusten Murrah

Director of Costumes - Sue Griffin - ext. 1248

Cutter/Draper - Marcia Miller Hailey - ext. 1248

Facilities Manager - Bruce Rennie - ext. 1244

Custodial Services - Tim Bethea

Education Manager - Vivian Schwartz - ext. 1151

Student Field Trips - Please contact the Box Office at (804) 282-2620.

Interim Managing Director - Amy Wratchford - awratchford@virginiarep.org

Assistant Director of Development - Melissa Haber - ext. 1263

Development Assistant - E.Y. Boggs

Logistics Assistant - Jamie Wilson - ext. 1123

Grants Manager - Austen Weathersby

Director of Marketing & Communications - Jo Manley

Marketing Manager - Chris Schoen

Graphic Designer - Druanne Cummins

Internet Services Manager - Jessica Daugherty

Director of Sales - Janine Sears - ext. 1194

Assistant Box Office Manager – Shannon Frazier

Box Office Associates –Sam Cook, Erin Dabrowski, Leanna Hicks, Joel Kimling, Emily Stava -- Please use (804) 282-2620

Front of House Manager – Janelle Cottman

Director of Finance - Rekhia Shedu Omo-John

Accounting Associate - Sara Heifetz - ext. 1124

External Auditor - Keiter

Manager of Community - Jessi Johnson Peterson - ext. 1125

Human Resources Manager - Lisa Kotula - ext. 1114

HR Consultant - Tinker HR