Good Company
Good Company is a new theater company dedicated to telling stories that engage, enlighten and, above all else, entertain. By rallying together old friends and welcoming new ones, we hope to form a community of young theater artists with strong, unique voices and equal senses of perspective and play. We strive to create an environment in which artists and audiences alike feel like they are — yes, we’re going there — in good company.
Who We Are
Photo by Matthew Murphy
David Ruttura, Artistic Director | david@goodcompanynyc.org
David Ruttura’s directing credits include He Who Laughs: Live by Isaac Oliver (TAI Group/Ars Nova), Moustache Guys by Mike Lew (Second Generation), The Pink Campaign on Broadway, a benefit for the Susan G. Komen foundation at The American Airlines Theater, The NewMusicalTheatre.com Launch Concert (Le Poisson Rouge), Koberet (Joe’s Pub), 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic/New Voices (24 Hour Play Co/The Old Vic), Eddie Goshen is Dead by Isaac Oliver (Fordham Playwriting Program), Red, White and Purple (Ensemble Studio Theater). David is a member of At Play Productions. As an Associate Director, David has worked with Doug Hughes, Thomas Kail, Walter Bobbie, Eric Schaeffer, Des McAnuff and Philip Wm. McKinley on Broadway, off-Broadway, regionally and internationally. Select Associate/Assistant credits include Lombardi, Million Dollar Quartet, White Christmas, A Man For All Seasons (Broadway), Farragut North (Atlantic Theater Company), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Wiz and Fanny (City Center Encores!), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (12 productions nationally), Ben Hur Live (International Tour), Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Circus (Gold Unit 2007), Nerds (Philadelphia Theater Company), Most Happy Fella (New York City Opera), The Wiz and Zhivago (LaJolla Playhouse). Recipient of a 2005 Stage Directors and Choreographers’ Foundation Observership Grant.
Isaac Oliver, Associate Artistic Director | isaac@goodcompanynyc.org
Isaac Oliver’s plays include Electra in a One-Piece, Eddie Goshen is Dead, Long Dirty Jokes, and Slim, Dancing Joy. His poetry has been published in The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities, a Knopf anthology. His blog, He Who Laughs, or The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Intimacy, can be read at www.hewholaughs.com. He Who Laughs: Live, a regularly-updated stage show based on material from his blog was most recently performed at Ars Nova. He is a graduate of Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Baltimore and Fordham College at Lincoln Center.
Melanie Hopkins, General Manager | melanie@goodcompanynyc.org
Melanie Hopkins is the Senior Associate Producer for the New York Musical Theatre Festival, where she will also be dramaturging Jonathan Spottiswoode’s Above Hell’s Kitchen for this year’s festival. With Rob Shapiro she has produced Isaac Oliver’s He Who Laughs: Live and Cabaret Sauvignon. Melanie serves as financial controller for over a dozen NYC-based arts institutions. She is currently writing a book on producing musicals for Oxford University Press.
Advisory Council
Walter Bobbie, Michael Kimmel, Theresa Von Klug, Eric Schaeffer
Support Us
Good Company is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. If you are able to throw a few dollars our way, it will help us continue producing in the future. Plus, it’s tax-deductible!
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Our Donors
Thank you to all of our very generous donors:
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Collin Burton
Jenny Bustance
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Caroline Hendrix
Tara Kelsey
Adam Kern
Jeffrey James Keyes
Daniel Levy & Margaret Peot
Talia Levy
Rachel Lucke
Faetra Petillo
James Presson
Sara Robbins
Colette Robert
Lynn Sniffen
Steven Strafford
Dustin Sugar-Moore
Allison Taylor
Amy Wolk
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Sarah Holtkamp
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Erin Kraus
Bethany Larsen
Eric Louie
Kristin Maloney McDonald
Patricia Muraca
Heidi O’Connell
Melissa Peterson
Julia Putnam
Aaron Rhyne
Timothy Ruttura
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Jennifer Taylor
Andrea Vazzano
Thomas Zimmerman
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Max von Essen
Louise Flory
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Ian Jorgensen
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Alma Malabanan-McGrath
Bear Mansfield & Addison McQuigg
Arthur Masella
Meg McCrossen
Jamie O’Brien
David Pasteelnick
Jay Pinkerton
Noah Press
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Michael Swift
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Neal Pocquette
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Eric Simonson
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Ian Tresselt & Joe Rooney
David Yanni
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EMERGENCY CONTACT ($250 or more)
Thomas Kail
Deborah Meek
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Project Trio
SOUL MATE ($500 or more)
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Susan Oliver
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Gaye Ruttura
FLESH & BLOOD ($1,000 or more)
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Meg & John Oliver
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