Meet the Staff

Chris Cary

Production Manager

Contact For: Technical Specs & Production
Email: chris@englert.org

Chris's career began in 1998 when he graduated from World Harvest Bible College in Columbus, Ohio. He currently has his own company, Revolution Exchange, which offers sound consultation to businesses and churches all over the country. Also, Chris is the Creative Arts Pastor of Life Church in Coralville, Iowa. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife, hanging out with friends and playing racquetball.

Tommy DeKoning

Production Engineer

Email: tommy@englert.org

Tommy is a corn-fed Iowa native. In 2005, he attended The Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis where he received an audio engineering diploma under Grammy award winner Tom Tucker. After moving to Iowa City in 2007, he produced several local records and has been a live production engineer for top national acts. In addition to his duties at the Englert, he also works with the University of Iowa Performing Arts as master electrician. His free time is spent producing music, attending shows, and playing disc golf.

Jessica Egli-Davis

House Management

Jessica received her BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa. Focusing on acting, she performed in various productions through the U of I Theatre Department including her favorite role to date as Carmen in “Las Hermanas Padilla” by Tony Meneses, part of Iowa New Play Festival 2010. She graduated in May that same year and transplanted to Portland, OR to live with her brother and try out a new city. Nine rainy and gray months later she hopped on a plane back to her beloved Iowa thinking, “Well, it was worth a shot.” She is now living with her sister, Indigo and their cat, Sugar and is thrilled to be once again working at the Englert, the place responsible for ever binding her heart to Iowa City.

Nathan Gould

Marketing Associate

Email: nathan@englert.org

Nathan is a life-long Iowa Citian and graduate of the University of Iowa. His free time is spent at concerts, customizing his Gmail setup, and pretending to make delicious food.

Sarah Kosch

Front Of House Services

Sarah Kosch is an undergrad at the University of Iowa studying English and Creative Writing and contemplating the frightening openness of the real world come graduation next May. She plans to take a year off and fill it with lots of coffee and books (and some sort of menial labor job) before returning to grad school to get an MFA in fiction. When she's not in class, at the Englert, or being an intern at The Iowa Review, you can usually find her watching movies, being obsessed with Doctor Who, and/or sleeping.

Tori Morgensai

Production Assistant

Email: tori@englert.org

Tori came to Iowa in 2006 to attend the University of Iowa to pursue a degree in Arts Management. She started working as a stagehand in 2007 and loves the adventure every day seems to bring. She was introduced to theatre as a small child and can't imagine not spending her life in the arts. In addition to being the production assistant at the Englert, she is also the office manager and occasional project manager for Performance, Arts, Technology Design, Inc., the theatre design company that also calls the Englert building its home. In her free time, she can be found watching old movies, reading, and enjoying Iowa City.

Andre Perry

Executive Director

Email: andre@englert.org

Andre Perry has been involved in community arts projects since he moved to Iowa City in 2005. In addition to serving as the Executive Director of the Englert, he is the co-founder and director of the annual Mission Creek Festival and a talent buyer at the Mill. He received is MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa in 2008 and continues write and publish in the field. He spends his free time at concerts, readings, lectures, and plays.

Katie Roche

Development Director

Contact For: Fundraising, Sponsorships, Grants
Email: katie@englert.org

Katie Roche loves to dream up collaborative ways to help make great things happen in Iowa City. Talk to her about how to connect you, your business or organization to a memorable, visceral Englert experience. You are the scaffolding that helps to build our community through artistic and cultural offerings! Katie is also a multi-instrumentalist and singer with Awful Purdies and apologizes in advance for any overzealous accordion or xylophone solos, but sometimes the music just carries you away.

Sarah Shonrock

Patron Services Director

Contact For: Patron Services, Concessions, Merchandise, Box Office
Email: sarah@englert.org

Sarah earned her BA in Theatre from the University of Northern Iowa and her MFA in Stage Management from the University of Iowa. Sarah got sucked into the world of theatre at a very young age (age six – playing the role of "Carrot" in "The Tale of Peter Cottontail") and has been engrossed in theatre ever since. Sarah spends what free time she has with her husband, Derek, and her children, Michael and Sadie.

Tasha-Leigh Yong

Front Of House Services

Tasha was born and raised in Waimanalo, HI. She made her way out here to Iowa City in the fall of 2008 after receiving her BS in Kinesiology:Pre-Physical Therapy from Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, CA. When not working at the Englert, Tasha works as a Physical Therapy aide at Mercy Iowa City for Progressive Rehab Associates. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, photography, Foodspotting, traveling to new places, and of course going back to Hawaii to see her family and friends.