Stanley Bahorek
Co-Founder, Creative Producer

Award-winning producer and actor Stanley Bahorek has worked on Broadway, Netflix, HBO, and all around the world. He has co-produced special events ranging from Broadway Does Mother’s Day to The TOGETHER Bay Area Spring Retreat. He co-produced the Iris Award-winning film Sign by Adam Wachter and Andrew Keenan-Bolger, the world premiere of Sheila by The Associates and Charles Mee’s soot and spit - celebrated as “overtly about disability and otherness” and “beautifully designed, dreamily evocative” (The New York Times).

As Artistic Associate at Baruch Performing Arts Center he founded the Student Arts Ambassador Program in partnership with The Public Theater, BAM, MCC Theater, Heidi Latsky Dance. He produced the immersive experience Shared_Studio at Baruch connecting audiences with displaced communities in Iraq, Bolivia, and Honduras. He organized the first “Art and Social Change: Experiments in Community” featuring Taylor Mac, Heidi Latsky, Shanta Thake, and Urban Bush Women. He holds a BFA from The University of Michigan and an MA in Arts Administration Baruch College and has taught at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and Princeton University.

Ethan Heard
Co-Founder, Creative Director

Director, producer, and teacher, Ethan Heard makes art to build community and foster love. He is Co-Founder & outgoing Artistic Director of the “daring and imaginative” Heartbeat Opera, "an enterprise that, while small and still young, has already contributed more to opera’s vitality than most major American companies” (NYTimes). He is the newly appointed Associate Artistic Director of Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. He teaches acting and directing at Yale School of Drama and Yale Institute of Sacred Music. 

With Heartbeat Opera, Ethan has directed Fidelio (NYTimes Critic’s Pick), Breathing Free: a visual album (Drama League Award nominee), Lady M: an online fantasia of Verdi’s Macbeth, and seven original drag-opera-extravaganzas. These productions have been called "urgent and powerful" (NYTimes), "relevant and heartbreaking" (The New Yorker), and "incisive and inspired" (Opera News).

Ethan is biracial, Chinese-American, queer, proficient in Mandarin, proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and the founder of The Yale School of Drag.

Meg Loughran
Creative Specialist

The triple threat actor, improviser, and writer Megan Loughran wields a one-of-a-kind superpower that combines ingenuity and irreverence to hop-up language and generates next-level ideas. Her play, F Theory, co-written with Alex Trow, world-premiered at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre in 2017, and her new comedy, The Silverfish, is currently in development. As an improviser, she appeared in the Chicago City Limits national touring company. As an actor, she appeared in the most recent National Tour of Falsettos, and Sweeney Todd at Lincoln Center. If you're really into Chobani yogurt commercials, you might have heard her do a voice-over where she plays a someone who is hangry