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

Schuller boasts more than 20 years of experience managing the operations of complex, multi- venue and multi-disciplinary organizations and has produced and presented live, touring and televised events that included collaborations with The Kennedy Center and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Known as much for his collaborative nature as his creativity, he has worked on various projects with celebrities such as Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Tina Fey, Catherine O’Hara, Bob Martin, and Dave Thomas.

Most recently, Schuller served as the executive director and producer for Randolph Entertainment, which presented Teatro ZinZanni and Cabaret ZaZou in partnership with Broadway in Chicago, from 2018-23. He led the planning, construction and launch of a unique new theater in a “forgotten” space that was rediscovered during a hotel renovation that revealed the original grand space inside the historic 1926 building in the Chicago Loop.

Schuller also served as executive director and producer for The Second City Canada from 2005-17, where he supervised the planning and construction of its Mercer Street home in Toronto and planned or led the construction of venues in Toronto, Cleveland and Las Vegas.

“Virginia Rep’s exceptional reputation and the diversity and quality of its offerings immediately appealed to me,” Schuller said. “I am humbled to have the opportunity to contribute to the incredible legacy the organization has built over the past 70-plus years and its impact on the arts community in Richmond, Central Virginia and beyond.”

Ext. 1116, kschuller@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
Christopher S. Reina, PhD
Susan Rickman
Katie Studer
Ed 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

Scenic Charge Artist - Amy Gethins Sullivan

Scenic Artist - Dasia Gregg

Props Supervisor - Cai Hayner

Scenic/Props Apprentice - Kate Fielding

Production Electrician - Kacey Yachuw

Electrics Apprentice - Wil Martin

Audio Visual Supervisor - Jonathan Pratt

Audio Visual Apprentice - Trusten Murrah

Costume Shop Manager - Patricia Austin - 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

Education Assistant - Gracie Berneche

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

Managing Director - Klaus Schuller - kschuller@virginiarep.org - ext. 1116

Director of Development - Kiffy Werkheiser - ext. 1238

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 - Amy Wolf

Graphic Designer - Tiffany Smith

Group Sales Manager - Kylee Marquez-Downie

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 Manager - Jean Poitras

External Auditor - Keiter

Manager of Community - Jessi Johnson Peterson - ext. 1125

Human Resources Manager - Lisa Kotula - ext. 1114