WTP is supported and managed by a skilled Staff and Board of Directors

WTP Staff

Jill Patrick, Managing Artistic Director

JILL PATRICK is an Atlanta-based playwright and poet. Her one-act play If I Told You I Love You Would You Believe Me? premiered in Austin, Texas, 1986, winning the first ever Moody Award for Playwriting. Her work can be seen in literary magazines such as New Millennium Writings, Creative License, and Red Hills Review. Jill is former host of the Midtown Atlanta Writers Group and has honed her craft along side such working novelists as Karen Abbott, Joshilyn Jackson, Anna Schachner, Fred Willard, and others. She is on the Advisory Board of Atlanta’s Essential Theatre and is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, The Dramatists Guild of America and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Jill became Managing Artistic Director of Working Title Playwrights in 2006, not based on her playwriting experience, but on her successful track record of creating opportunities to excel (via curriculum development for the military, at-risk youth counseling for the Job Corps and real estate title work throughout the metro-Atlanta area). By fostering growth and nurturing continued excellence in playwriting for all the members of the organization, from novice to pro, under her guidance WTP has grown not only in membership but in programs offered and is now at the forefront of new play development in the Southeast. Jill lives and loves with her infinitely better half, Perry, and their collection of well-fed and happily assorted strays. She strives each and every day to keep the faith that there are only three things that will change the universe: education, motivation and wormholes.
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Betty Hart, Moderator

Betty is WTP's resident moderator, commanding talkback sessions in virtually all of our play development programs. Betty has worked in the field of educational theatre since 1990 and works full time as the Casting and Resident Director for Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre Programs. She was instrumental in creating the Atlanta Unified auditions for the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts, and was the chair of the Unified's committee from 2000-2003. She was the Casting Director for the Southeast Playwrights Project (SEPP) from 2000-2005 and was the theatre curator for the 2001 Seen + Heard Atlanta Women's Arts Festival. Betty has been directing for 7+ years and has directed full productions, staged readings, and/or workshops for Theatre Emory, Theatre Decatur, SEPP, State University of West Georgia, Seen + Heard Atlanta Women's Arts Festival, and The Process Theatre. Betty has an intense love for new work and for playwrights making her a great addition to the Working Title Playwrights family. In Betty's own words, "There is nothing more exciting than new work and it is an honor to collaborate with the playwrights as an actor, facilitator and director." Betty is the proud mother of her boxer Callie and her two tortoiseshell calicos, Nerissa and Portia, and is a member of Actor's Equity Association.

2010 Board of Directors

Hank Kimmel, President
Bob Cassano, Treasurer
Lisa Brathwaite
Kim Brundidge
Kirsten Eidsmoe
Jo Howarth Noonan
Laurence Ruth
Curt Shannon

Advisory Board

Gayle Austin
Jim Davies
Jim Grimsley
Karla Jennings
Pamela Turner