La Jolla Playhouse
Tara Ricasa is an experienced arts educator and coordinator currently serving as the LA Puppet Program Coordinator at PACER Center since September 2019. With extensive involvement as a teaching artist across multiple esteemed institutions, including The Old Globe, Center Theatre Group, La Jolla Playhouse, and Geffen Playhouse, Tara has facilitated various programs such as Disney Musicals in Schools and Arts Integration initiatives. In addition to teaching, Tara has held administrative roles, notably as the Office Manager at Reading Town Sunnyside. Formerly the Co-Artistic Director at Vertigo Theater Company, Tara holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from UCLA, earned between 2001 and 2005.
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La Jolla Playhouse
The Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse is internationally-renowned for creating some of the most exciting and adventurous work in American theatre, through its new play development initiatives, its innovative Without Walls series, artist commissions and residencies. Currently led by The Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse and 2017 Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Debby Buchholz, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, and reborn in 1983 under the artistic leadership of Des McAnuff. La Jolla Playhouse has had 33 productions transfer to Broadway, garnering 38 Tony Awards, among them the currently-running, Tony Award-Winning COME FROM AWAY and SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, along with JERSEY BOYS, MEMPHIS, THE WHO'S TOMMY, BIG RIVER, as well as Billy Crystal’s 700 SUNDAYS and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I AM MY OWN WIFE, both fostered as part of the Playhouse’s Page To Stage Program. Visit LaJollaPlayhouse.org.