JOAN FOSTER McCARTY* (Stage Manager) has an extensive background in stage management and teaching in higher education. She has worked as a stage manager at several Atlanta professional theatres including the Horizon Theatre (Sweet Water Taste, Blackberry Daze, Blue), Theatre in the Square, Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company, Actors’ Express, and Theatrical Outfit. Recent credits include The Wolf at the End of the Block at Theatrical Outfit, Booty Candy at Actor’s Express, Chicken & Biscuits for Dominion Entertainment., Designing Women at Horizon Theatre, and Young and Just at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. A native of Chicago, she has also stage managed at Victory Gardens, the Immediate Theatre, the Black Ensemble, Milwaukee Repertory, and Drury Lane Theatre. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and served on the Central Advisory Board for five years. Joan has taught in the theatre and performance departments of Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University for over twenty-five years.