JAG Productions, a Vermont-based producer of classic and contemporary African-American theater, has hired Jason Schumacher as its first fulll-time managing director. With more than 20 years of professional theater, film and television experience, Schumacher will join founder and Producing Artistic Director Jarvis Green and recently named Director of Development Tamara Waraschinski as part of JAG Productions’ core leadership team.
"Joining the JAG Productions’ leadership team ... at this exciting time of growth is such an honor, and also a deeply humbling experience for me,” Schumacher said. “The gratitude I feel toward Jarvis and Tamara, the JAG Board of Directors, JAG artists and the greater JAG community for entrusting me to help center and support Black storytelling is profound and abiding."
Schumacher joins JAG Productions from ZFX Flying Effects, where he served as general manager and corporate officer. During his tenure in this position, he completely rebuilt the company’s human resources and risk management departments, helped launch a new division and product line, and played a major role on the leadership team that shepherded the company through a growth period that resulted in significantly increased profits.
With established roots in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire as an incubator for Black, Brown, queer and trans artists, JAG Productions hired Schumacher to help support the company as it works toward becoming a more fully realized organization and expands its horizons with new opportunities like JAG Musical Theatre Lab and a two-year residency at the New York Theatre Workshop.