executive director

Greg Phillips most recently served as Executive Director of Broadway By the Bay, a company with a 40-year history of producing musicals at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center.  During his tenure there, he restructured the organization, dramatically increased contributed income and ticket sales revenue and expanded education and outreach.  He helped the organization present Broadway artists in concert and conversation, commission new work and secure a spectacular seven-acre waterfront site to build a new performing arts center. 

In 1991 Phillips founded CenterStage at the Osher Marin JCC (the San Francisco Bay Area’s 92nd St. Y) and during the next 15 seasons presented over 600 events and performances.  CenterStage’s renowned Artists & Authors and Solo Spotlight series’ featured Theodore Bikel, George Carlin, Spalding Gray, Sarah Jones, Danny Hoch, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, Anna Deveare Smith and many more.  He conducted on-stage interviews with Kristin Chenoweth, Charles Honi Coles, Thomas Keller, Tony Kushner, Gary Marshall among others.  He commissioned and produced world premieres including Andrea Marcovicci’s Just Kern and Always, Irving Berlin, Lane Nishikawa and Victor Talmadge’s The Gate of Heaven  and Sherry Glaser’s Oh My Goddess.   

In 1995, Phillips founded CSTAR, Creative Stage Artists Management that, for the next decade, represented comedian/author Kate Clinton, musical comedian Jason Graae, Broadway stars Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, and Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter Stephen Schwartz.  Phillips received a B.A. in music from Marlboro College and subsequently created a unique arts program for the San Anselmo and Fairfax school districts and was Director of Youth Programs for the Marin Symphony. His work in television and film includes hosting and producing the first PBS home remodeling series, KQED’s Grin and Repair It (the forerunner to This Old House) and coaching Robin Williams for his role as the Russian saxophonist in Moscow on the Hudson.