About the Raven Players
Your Company, Your Theater
The Raven Players is your company, devoted to creating an inclusive gathering place to share great stories. Some of our productions will make you laugh and sing. Others will make you cry, or cause you to question long-held beliefs. Who knows? Theater does all these things and more. It’s an ever-expanding lens through which we can better see ourselves and the world in which we live. And whether it’s a play you’ve enjoyed again and again or one that is being performed for the very first time anywhere, we promise you this: Every Raven Players production will be crafted with passion, professionalism, and respect for you, the community, because you are the most essential part of our theater family. It’s why we do what we do. And we couldn’t do it without you.
Steven David Martin — Raven Players Artistic Director
Steven David Martin became artistic director for the Raven Players in the fall of 2013 and has enjoyed the ever-changing challenges and exciting journeys that each new Raven Players season brings. Along the way, he introduced Raven on the Road (plays produced in venues other than the Raven Theater – including Costeaux Bakery, Paul Mahder Art Gallery, Seghesio Vineyards, and more), Summer Shakespeare at West Plaza Park, and the annual Raven 24/7 event in addition to the six to eight productions each year on the Raven stage. He has been an integral member of the Raven family for years: as marketing director at the Raven’s inception, and directing and performing in several plays before becoming artistic director. He promises the Players’ productions will be “often challenging, always entertaining, and never dull.”
Martin spent more than 20 years in professional theater, working as an actor, director, and artistic director in theaters from Ashland, Oregon, to Edinburgh, Scotland, and a great many in between. He is also a teacher, writer, and voice-over artist. He lives in lovely Healdsburg.
• Contact our artistic director about applying to direct a production. To find out about auditions, check our audition page.
Kerry Duvall — Assistant to the Artistic Director
Kerry Duvall was inspired to work in theater when her son, at a very young age, announced he was going to become an actor. Years later, she is still in theater, her son is still acting, and her daughter is a special effects makeup artist. Duvall has been working with local theaters since 2005 as a technical director, set designer, stage manager, hair/makeup artist, scenic painter, and director.
When Steven David Martin became the Raven’s artistic director, he asked Duvall to join the team as resident stage manager. In that role, she helped launch essential production procedures to keep things running smoothly. She became assistant to the artistic director in 2019. Her favorite projects at the Raven include designing the set for To Kill a Mockingbird and directing The Woman in Black and Shrek, The Musical.
When not at the theater or running the office at the construction company she and her husband own, Duvall is usually 100ft underwater as a divemaster, scuba diving with her husband.
Tony Sciullo —Literary Manager
Tony Sciullo received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002 and was awarded a Shubert Playwriting Scholarship. Prior to graduate school, he was a member of Tale Spinners Theater and their Oral History Playwrights Project. His plays Homework, Candlestick Tales, and Red Harvest were produced in San Francisco by Tale Spinners.
Sciullo has been working with the Raven Players as literary manager and resident playwright for the past 5 years. His play Quicksand Tango was the winner of the Raven Players’ inaugural new works competition and was produced in May of 2015. His play A Vintage Christmas was commissioned by the Raven Players and produced in December of 2017.
The Sciullo family currently makes their home in the Northern California wine country.
Raven Players Mission Statement
To build a resident, self-sustaining community theater company that is known for producing consistently high-quality theater and that identifies Healdsburg as a destination for great community theater.
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