STAFF

Josh Short, ​Founder / Artistic Director

Josh Short is the Founder and Artistic Director of Providence’s Wilbury Theatre Group, where he leads the development and production of hundreds of workshop and full-scale productions by local and internationally recognized artists and oversees the company’s artistic programming. Since founding the company in 2010, he has helped shape Wilbury into a leading voice in Rhode Island’s theatre community, with a focus on new work, adventurous revivals, and community engagement.

As a director with the Wilbury Group, his productions include Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812; Fun Home; The Humans; Octet; American Idiot; Once; and Krapp’s Last Tape, among many others. Additional directing credits include The Skin of Our Teeth; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Blasted; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Detroit; This Beautiful City; Ui [oo-ey]; and The Threepenny Opera. He has also directed the development and premiere of numerous new plays and musicals, including From Here to Where by Umberto Crenca and the Gillen Street Ensemble; Lifted by Charlie Thurston; New and Dangerous Ideas by Christopher Johnson; and several new works by Darcie Dennigan, including The Pleiades; RESCUE! Or, The Fish; Dolores Goes to Poetry City; and Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight (music by Niki Healy).

In 2014 he founded FRINGEPVD: The Providence Fringe Festival®, launching the festival with 50 artists across five venues. It has since grown into the largest fringe theatre festival in New England and is a member of both the United States Association of Fringe Festivals and the World Fringe Congress.

Beyond his work with Wilbury and FRINGEPVD, Short has collaborated with organizations including the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, The La Jolla Playhouse, and the Providence Black Repertory Company, where he served as Associate Producer from 2008–2010. He is the creator and facilitator of The Director’s Forum at Brown Arts Institute and serves as a Lecturer in the Literary Arts and Studies Department at the Rhode Island School of Design where he teaches theatre production, is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and a board member of The Providence Drum Troupe.

Short is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and a member of the Pi II class of Leadership Rhode Island. His work has been recognized by GoLocalProv’s 20 Who Made a Difference, Providence Monthly’s Who to Watch, the Providence Business News 40 Under Forty Awards, and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities’ Tom Roberts Prize for Creative Achievement in the Humanities.

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Christine Treglia, ​General Manager

Christine Treglia joined Providence’s Wilbury Theatre Group in 2013 as an actor and later served as the company’s Front of House Manager from 2013 to 2024, also holding the same role for FRINGEPVD: The Providence Fringe Festival since its founding in 2014. Since joining the organization’s Board of Directors in 2014, she has been an active member of Wilbury’s fundraising committee, helping to support the company’s annual gala and other development initiatives.

As a performer with the Wilbury Group, she has appeared in several productions, including the world premieres of Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight (Mary Garrard); RESCUE! Or, The Fish; 10,000 Things (Chloe); and Dolores Goes to Poetry City. Additional Wilbury productions include Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812; Church (Rev. Christine); Cabaret (Kit Kat Girl, u/s Fr. Schneider); Passing Strange (Heidi); The Threepenny Opera (Ensemble); and COLD (Jane) as part of the company’s New Works Festival.

Her additional stage credits include The Full Monty (Vicki); Cinderella (The Queen); The Buddy Holly Story; Rocky Horror Show; Children of Eden; and Clue the Musical at the Courthouse Center for the Arts, as well as Once on This Island (Andrea) and Man of La Mancha with Academy Players.

Earlier in her career, Treglia was a founding member of The Bit Players, Newport’s award-winning improv comedy troupe, and performed for six years with the Ocean State Follies.

Outside the theater, she serves the Rhode Island community as a Human Services Policy & Systems Specialist with the Rhode Island Department of Human Services.

Her lifelong passion for the arts and commitment to expanding opportunities for artists and audiences continue to inform her work with Wilbury Theatre Group.

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Niki Healy, Director of Communications & Advancement

Niki Healy is a performing arts marketing and publicity professional focused on expanding access to and engagement with the performing arts. She previously served as a lead publicist with Davidson & Choy Publicity, Southern California’s leading performing arts PR firm, where she worked with clients including Pasadena Playhouse, the Hollywood Bowl, Geffen Playhouse, The Broad Stage, Cirque du Soleil (Los Angeles and Orange County engagements), The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, Walt Disney Imagineering’s Design Competition, and Disney’s El Capitan Theatre.

Prior to her work at Davidson & Choy, Healy served as Marketing Manager for A Noise Within Repertory Theatre in Pasadena and as Associate Artistic Director of Theater 150, a professional theatre company based in Ojai, California.

In addition to her work in arts marketing and communications, Healy is a composer, lyricist, and performer. Her original work Bird Jail: A Musical Punishment was presented at FRINGEPVD: The Providence Fringe Festival® in 2024, where it received the Audience Award for Best Musical Performance. She also composed the music for Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight, a musical about the life of Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, with book and lyrics by Darcie Dennigan, developed and produced by Wilbury Theatre Group.

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Brien Lang, ​Director of New Works

Brien Lang is a director, actor, and composer who has collaborated with Providence’s Wilbury Theatre Group in a variety of roles. His directing work with the company includes HIR; The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart; Futurity; Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play; Passing Strange; A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney; and We Won’t Pay, We Won’t Pay!

As an actor with Wilbury he has appeared in Stupid F@#$ing Bird (Trig); 10,000 Things (Priest); Cabaret (Ernst Ludwig); The Threepenny Opera (Tiger Brown); Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (John C. Calhoun); and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Donny).

Lang has also contributed to several Wilbury productions as a musician and designer, providing sound and music design for Ill Seen, Ill Said and Not I, serving as co–music director (with Milly Massey) for This Beautiful City, and as music director for DeStefano on the Air and The Teller.

His additional directing work includes productions of Medea, Waiting for Godot, and Polish Joke with NewGate Theatre, as well as The Gays of Our Lives, presented at the Boston and Providence Pride Festivals. He also adapted and directed The Frogs for a City of Providence–sponsored touring production.

Lang’s original musical Road House: The Return of the Concert of the Musical premiered as part of the Wilbury Theatre Group’s New Works program in 2015 and continues to tour today. His musical The My Way Murders debuted at the 2016 Providence Fringe Festival. He has also composed original music for The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the University of Rhode Island.

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Mycah Hogan, Education Programs Director

Mycah Hogan is a clown, educator, and community organizer. He is a performer, director, and one of the most innovative young teachers in the world for clown, mask, and physical acting. On faculty at Brown-Trinity Repertory's MFA Program and NYU's International Theatre Workshop, he teaches in Amsterdam, New York, Philadelphia, and in his home city of Providence, where he is committed to generating a legendary clown scene by providing affordable, conservatory-level actor training to the next generation of innovative theater artists.

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