Robert Bruce McIntosh
Co-founder and Artistic Director
Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Theater Garden, Rob's directing credits include: Liberty the Musical, Fairytale, Metamorphoses, The Laramie Project, The Crucible, Lady of Copper, The Road to Freedom, Enough for All, First Lady, and Romeo and Juliet. Rob is also the artistic director of City Lights Youth Theatre, which provides young people from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to participate in theatre experiences in order to develop confidence, responsibility, teamwork, and a greater sense of self and community. Previously with the Children's Aid Society, Rob founded and directed the nationally recognized, award-winning Advantage Theatre and Film Program, a comprehensive after-school performing arts program for New York City Junior High School students. As a senior teaching artist with ENACT Inc., he developed curriculum and trained teaching artists to use theater games and improvisation to teach conflict resolution in New York City classrooms. Acting credits include lead roles in Hamlet, The Suicide, Kingdom of the Sun and The Angry Young Man, a modern Misanthrope. Rob is a member of Actors Equity and The WorkShop Theatre Company. He also juggles knives and flaming torches and rides a unicycle. Rob holds an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University and a BA in Theatre Studies from Emory University.

Dana Leslie Goldstein
Co-founder and Playwright-in-Residence
Dana’s plays and musicals have been seen at The Cherry Lane Theater, The Culture Project, The Julia Miles Theatre, New Dramatists, Hartford Children's Theatre, The York Theatre, Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center, Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center, Center Stage, BMI, Bickford Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, Pulse, Theatre Row Theatre, Jewish Theatre of the South, Gene Frankel Theater, Different Voices, The Lark, Neighborhood Playhouse, WorkShop Theater Company, Pacific Theatre (Vancouver) and on Equity TYA tours in NY/NJ/CT through Theater Garden. Dana’s work has won the New England New Play Competition, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Excellence in Playwriting, The Different Voices New Play Award, The ACTF New Play Award, The Henry Hoyns Fellowship in Poetry, The Associated Writing Programs' Intro Award for Poetry and an Academy of American Poets Prize. She holds Master of Fine Arts degrees in both Playwriting and Poetry and has been a lyricist in the BMI/Lehmann Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a long-time member of the Playwrights’ Lab at The Women’s Project. Dana is a member of The Workshop Theater Company and The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.