Meet Our 2019 Board

Katherine DeVos Devine

Katherine de Vos Devine is the founder of Cauldron, an Asheville-based arts incubator dedicated to helping visual artists build business skills. Katherine is the former executive director of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. She previously worked at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP, where she assisted public charities and private foundations with the processes of organization, incorporation, and tax exemption.   Katherine earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture at Duke University. She received her M.A. and B.A. in Art History from Duke and J.D. from the Duke University School of Law.

Blaine Greenfield

Blaine Greenfield, a retired college professor of marketing, moved to Asheville nine years ago with his beautiful bride Cynthia. He has since become a volunteer consultant for Mountain BizWorks, SCORE and the Small Business Center at ABTech, and he also hosts a radio show on WPVM. In addition, he publishes BLAINESWORLD—an entertaining and informative blog.

Hallee Hirsch

Hallee Hirsh started her first career in television and film acting at the age of three. Working steadily for 23 years, she was fortunate to receive two Young Artist Awards and amass a long lists of credits including You've Got Mail,  E.R., Law and Order, and Grey's Anatomy. After becoming a mother, she and her husband Ryan Martin moved to Marshall, NC to live a life centered around food and nature. She is now well into her second career as a baker and small-business owner at Hole Doughnuts in West Asheville, serving doughnuts that were named "Best Dessert of 2016" by Bon Appétit Magazine. 

Lara Hollaway

Lara got her start in professional theatre at age 11 when she was chosen out of several hundred little girls as the understudy to Annie with Fannie Flagg and Robert Alda in Birmingham, Alabama.  She has been performing in plays and musicals from coast to coast ever since, with a bit of choreographing and directing on the side.
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Lara has only recently relocated to the Asheville area, but has fallen in love with the mountains and the theatre community in this beautiful, artistic, and expanding city. 

Amanda Hunt

Amanda Hunt is originally from Atlanta, GA.  After graduating from Piedmont College with a BA in Theater, Amanda studied at the British American Drama Academy and The Barrow Group in New York.  She has acted in many theatre shows, films, and commercials.  She was a founding member of Jaradoa Theater, where she performed in the Off-Broadway original musical Shafrika the White Girl and Serenade. She has been in a few Attic Salt productions including Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and most recently Talking With... Amanda is very excited to be on the board of Attic Salt.

Laura Podraza

Laura Podraza is a veteran teacher with Buncombe County Schools. She has taught most of her career at Bell Elementary in second and third grade. She and her husband, Erik, have lived in Asheville for over 23 years. Laura has two children who have been blessed with wonderful opportunities in the arts in school as well as our community. Even though Laura was never a Girl Scout as a child, she has been a leader for the past 14 years. Providing young people with the tools they need to be strong, confident leaders is very important to her. Watching her son develop as a result of his theatre experiences, on and off stage, is one way that she ended up working with Marci Bernstein and Jeff Catanese and Attic Salt Theatre Company.

Ellen Pappas

Ellen hails from New York City where she studied theatre in high school and college. She spent years working full-time in a law firm, singing in a rock n' roll band and studying acting and musical theatre at HB Studio.
Nowadays, she is half of the duo The Good Gurls, where she plays guitar and mandolin and sings her heart out, whipping out those harmonies and descants.  She's also regularly performing, producing and directing for Asheville's vibrant theatre community.
 

Janice Schrieber

Passionate about theatre since childhood, Janice has worked as a director, actor, and educator for over fifty years. Janice is a graduate of the East Carolina University Theatre Program and and has done graduate studies in theatre at UNC-Greensboro, California State University, Central Washington University, and the University of Southern Maine. For thirteen years, she was the Director of Theatre at Arendell Parrott Academy in Kinston, North Carolina. She is also one of the founders of the Magnolia Arts Center in Greenville, North Carolina and has served on the board of the North Carolina Theatre Conference.