Trustee
Meg Fofonoff
Ms. Fofonoff founded and served as executive producer of Fiddlehead Theatre Company (FTC) from 1993–2016. FTC, a professional, award-winning entity, produced plays and musicals in Boston and beyond. FTC was also dedicated to serving Boston’s surrounding communities by educating children of all abilities and backgrounds in the theater arts. Ms. Fofonoff helmed Fiddlehead’s journey from its own 1927 vaudeville house to Boston’s Strand Theatre and then finally to Boston’s Shubert Theatre, where its production of Show Boat won the IRNE and Elliot Norton Awards for Best Musical. Ms. Fofonoff moved on to a new chapter establishing Art Lab, a producer of commercial theater as well as art/ theater/science events. Art Lab has produced several art/science theatrical events with the renowned Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, MA, has been a producer on the Tony Award-winning The Cher Show, Head Over Heels. Currently she is a producer on; Come From Away (London), It Happened in Key West (London), and the Broadway-bound Marie (directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman with music and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty). Art Lab’s newest project is the development of shAme, a musical based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, where she plays the role of lead producer. Art Lab is a member of the Broadway League, The Drama League, and NAMT. Ms. Fofonoff is a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women, as well as a board member of The Drama League and the Marine Biological Laboratories, College Light Opera Company, and an Advisory Board Member of The American Theatre Wing. She is proud to be a producer on the recent “The Show Must Go On Show,” a You Tube series free to all, also a product of Art Lab.