MAPP Staff Artists
Thomas Dean Kellogg
Thomas Dean Kellogg (Cherokee, Choctaw, European) is the Artistic Director and Founder of MAPP. He has designed, developed, and implemented many successful playwriting/ mentoring programs, including Native Voices at the Autry National Center’s – Young Playwrights Project, the Haven Project-Afield Program in Portland, Oregon, and was a cofounder and lead artist for Each One, Reach One, a program for youth in the juvenile justice system in the San Francisco Bay area. Tom has also worked for many years as a mentor artist and served as a playwriting instructor with Leigh Curran and the Virginia Avenue Project in Santa Monica, California. He gratefully acknowledges Daniel Sklar’s Playmaking technique as one of the base components in his playwriting method. Kellogg is the founder and artistic director of a critically acclaimed interdisciplinary theater company, fofo, based in Los Angeles. He has been invited to conduct theater workshops in Budapest, Moscow, London, Istanbul, and Javea (Spain) and has been a guest artist at the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab West. He taught acting workshops and served as a directing mentor at the ABC/ Disney Institute of American Indian Arts’ first Native American Film Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2004.
Myra Donnelley
Myra Donnelley, Program Coordinator, is currently the development and community outreach partner for MAPP. Her experience in youth development includes extensive community arts work at the Loft Film and Theatre Center and The Romeo Project of the East Harlem Tutorial Program/Project Strive/Key School in New York City; Shakespeare’s Joint in Texas; Shakespeare in the Schools in Massachusetts; and the Foundation for Children and the Classics/Friends of the Children field program in Portland, Oregon. She is a freelance grant writer and fundraising consultant for individual artists and non-profit theaters. As an independent producer, Myra has toured productions to San Francisco, New York City, and Dublin, Ireland, and is engaged in planning and long-range development for theatre fofo projects in Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Guanajuato, Mexico.