Our Team
Erin Galligan Baldwin
Founding Artistic Director
Erin Galligan Baldwin (she/her) is a Vermont-based playwright, director, performer, educator, and proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Her work explores family, identity, social justice, history, and the ways theater can build empathy and connection.
Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Erin attended Interlochen Arts Academy as an acting major, earned a degree in English and Creative Writing from the Honors College at the University of Michigan, and received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts with a concentration in Performance Creation from Goddard College. After teaching, acting, and working in New York City, Erin moved north—way north—to work with Bread and Puppet Theater and has called Vermont home for the past 23 years. A veteran teacher and director of 28 years, Erin is passionate about creating spaces where artists of all ages and all walks of life can take creative risks, find inspiration, and support one another's work. She knows she needs to spend more time writing, but most of the time she chooses a room full of creative collaborators over sitting in a room all by herself! She lives in Berlin, Vermont, with her husband, two kiddos, a dog, two cats, way too many houseplants, and overflowing flower & vegetable gardens.
Brandon Zang
Outreach and Social Media Manager
Brandon Zang (he/him) is a playwright from Vancouver, British Columbia and attended the 2026 GMPR through a fellowship made possible by the American College Theater Festival and the Kennedy Center for the Arts. Through speculative worldbuilding, Brandon reimagines questions of diaspora and belonging, grounding immigrant narratives in genres ranging from mystical realism to solarpunk. He writes characters who are multilingual world-builders, creating their own fabulations as a form of revolution against the imperialist and capitalist bindings that they find themselves in. Brandon is seeking and building an audience of lost, nihilist, and liberatory theater participants. His plays have been developed and produced at Chuang Stage, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, among others. Awards include the Voaden Prize (Queen’s University), the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award (KCACTF), the National Student Playwriting Award Second Prize (KCACTF), and the Pacific Rim Prize (Kumu Kahua Theatre). He and his work have earned finalist or semifinalist recognition for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, Playwrights’ Center Core Apprenticeship, Ashland New Plays Festival, among others. Brandon teaches playwriting at Boston University’s School of Theater, and he is also a freelance dramaturg and translator. Upcoming productions include The Recursion of a Moth at Cellunova Productions and Xiaohu Dreams of Snow at The Theater Offensive.
Riley Skalski
2026 Intern
Riley Skalski (she/her) is an actor from the Chicagoland area with a passion for writing. Recent theater credits include Helena in 99th and Nowhere, Mrs. Peter's in Trifles: a Murder Mystery at Steel Beam Theatre. Additional credits include Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, Emma Tate in Curse of the Starving Class, and a featured dancer in Pippin all performed at College of Dupage. Riley also has a love for stage managing and was the assistant stage manager for Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's 2024-2025 season, and was the recipient of the John Belushi/Second City Stage Management Scholarship at College of Dupage. When Riley isn't performing on stage, you can usually find her making short films with her friends any chance she gets!
Anne G. Morgan
Dramaturg
Anne G. Morgan (she/her) is an award-winning dramaturg and arts leader. She is the Programs Director for the National New Play Network and provides freelance dramaturgical support to new play organizations and individual playwrights. Anne received the 2019 Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries. With that initiative, Anne dramaturged new plays by L M Feldman, Mary Elizabeth Hamilton, Anchuli Felicia King, Emma Whipday, and Amy E. Witting. Prior to that work, Anne ran the Literary Department at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center from 2012 - 2017, where she worked on new plays by David Auburn, Bekah Brunstetter, A. Rey Pamatmat, among others. She has worked regularly with the Playwrights Realm, Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Kennedy Center, and more, as well as collaborating with playwrights individually. Anne serves as an At-Large Board Member for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She lives with her husband and daughter in Vermont. annegmorgan.com
Kris Gruen
Executive Director of the Creative Campus at Goddard
Kris Gruen (he/him) is an Americana and alt-folk singer-songwriter known for his literary lyrics and deep Vermont roots. Raised immersed in the downtown NYC rock scene, and educated at Goddard College, he has released multiple acclaimed albums (including Welcome Farewell and In Bloom) while successfully balancing a parallel life in organic farming. Over the years, he has built a catalog of six studio albums, blending heartfelt Americana with indie-folk. Beyond music, Gruen has deeply integrated himself into Vermont’s artistic and rural communities. He lives on an organic vegetable farm with his partner and two daughters, proving that a celebrated touring musician can maintain a grounded, agrarian family life. He has also worked as a community organizer, educator, and is the current director of the Creative Campus at Goddard Repurposing Project.
R. Byron Breese
Retreat Concierge
Born and raised in New Jersey, when there were still trees there, R. Byron Breese (he/him) studied philosophy, lit, and world religions in college, commissioned in the USAF, served five years active duty in the Deep South and Europe, then studied “divinity,” graduating with the M.Div. in historical theology in 1988. Writing and visual arts (painting and photography) were natural endeavors since childhood. Byron retired a Major in 2006, became a father, did his MFA right at Goddard in 2010–2013, got a divorce, exited formal religion, became a Guest on Turtle Island, and continued creating. He began writing a play about two WW1 poets in 2015 from an idea conceived in the 1990s, did research in France 2017–18, and that project continues. Perseverance, folks. Keep calm and carry on… because every act of art is an act of resistance.