Shannon Flaherty - Co-Artistic Director

Co-Artistic Director

Shannon Flaherty is a performer, producer, and educator originally from New Hampshire. She is co-Artistic Director of Goat in the Road, and a teaching artist for GRP's young playwrights' program, Play/Write. Shannon has created, performed in, and produced many GRP productions including The Family Line, The Uninvited, The Stranger Disease, Foreign to Myself, Numb, and Major Swelling's Salvation Salve Medicine Show. Shannon has also appeared on stage with Skin Horse Theater, Cripple Creek Theatre Co., and Dillard University. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2006 and has been living in New Orleans since 2008.

Eleanor Frederic-Humphrey - Education Director

Education Director

Eleanor Frederic-Humphrey is an actor, creative arts educator, and all-around lover of crafts.  As an educator, she has taught theater, playwriting, music theory, vocal technique, choral direction, visual arts, and culinary arts to students of all ages since 2015. In addition to her work with GRP, Eleanor is a standardized patient for medical schools across the country, and has played onstage with Crescent City Stage and No Dream Deferred in New Orleans. She loves to bring her creativity, joyful sense of play, and performance experience into every teaching space. In her free time, you can usually find her reading, crocheting, cooking, or making candles. Eleanor earned her bachelor’s degree from Saint Louis University in 2014 and now lives in New Orleans.  

April Louise - Social Media Coordinator

Social Media Coordinator

April Louise, a multi-hyphenate creative, currently serves as Arts Integration Coordinator with Young Audiences of Louisiana. She first worked with Goat in the Road productions on The Stranger Disease. Recent credits include The Family Line with (GRP) and Go Swiftly Along - a film project with FosterBear Films. Her most humbling accomplishments include performing in the 24 Hour Musicals in New York, being crowned Stage Door Idol at the National World War II Museum, and celebrating the win of 4 awards with the cast and crew of The Stranger Disease as well as 4 awards with the cast and crew of The Family Line.

Richon May Wallace - Creative Producer & Teaching Artist

Creative Producer & Teaching Artist

Richon May is a proud native New Orleanian who directs, acts and teaches. Richon just recently completed the MFA program with a concentration in Directing at the University of New Orleans this past Spring of 2022. She decided to pursue her masters after working in arts education for over 15 years. She produced and directed various self written children’s plays, which has taught her to purposefully plan, yet remain flexible for changes. Training younger students also has helped her keep a positive outlook and fresh perspective, as it pertains to approaching the work, in the creative process. Some of her directing credits include: Troi Bechet’s original work, “Flower’s for Halie” at Southern Rep, “Mother Courage”, Sara Ruhl’s”Eurydice” at UNO’s Amphitheater , “Single Black Female”, which received The Kennedy Center Citizen’s Artist Award and Katori Hall’s” Hoodoo Love”. Richon is most looking forward to co-directing her first Goat in the Road project with Chris Kaminstein this fall at the Beauregard- Keyes in the French Quarters.

Chris Kaminstein - Co-Artistic Director

Co-Artistic Director

Christopher Kaminstein is a writer, director, improviser, teaching artist, and co-Artistic Director of Goat in the Road Productions (GRP). He is known for his innovative theater directing, a commitment to an ensemble-based creative process, and using historical moments to analyze current social realities.  Chris' most recent writing and co-directing credits for GRP include The Family Line (2022), The Uninvited (2020), Roleplay (2019), KindHumanKind in Concert (2019), The Stranger Disease (2018), Foreign to Myself (2017), and Numb (2014). He won a 2023 Big Easy Theater Award for ‘Best Director’ with co-Director Richon May Wallace (The Family Line), and a 2018 ‘Best Director’ award with co-Director Kiyoko McCrae (The Stranger Diseas). Kaminstein was featured in an American Theatre article about GRP’s immersive history-based projects (March 2020).  Chris is an experienced teaching artist and co-founder of the company's flagship educational program, Play/Write, which brings student plays to life with professional actors.  Chris lives with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Lia, in New Orleans, LA.