BOARD

MARTHA MOYLAN PRESIDENT
Martha Moylan has been a resident of Oak Park since 2007. She has been active with theater her whole life – as an actor, audience member, patron, and parent volunteer. Martha is the founder and principal of MMK Consulting, Inc., a boutique, WBE certified firm that specializes in corporate real estate consulting. She holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and a BA in psychology and mass communication, with a minor in sociology from Saint Mary’s College, IN. She is the mother of two fabulous teenagers.

LORINZO JEFFRIES VICE PRESIDENT

Lorinzo Jeffries, and his spouse Denise, have been Oak Park residents for over thirty years.  They enjoy performing arts: theater, dance, and music; attending performances throughout the metropolitan area.  He and Denise are currently members of the Chicago Jazz Institute and Art Institute of Chicago.  In past years they have subscribed to programming at the Auditorium and Harris Theaters and look forward to resuming these activities soon.  During high school and college, Lorinzo worked behind the stage on set construction and lighting and looks forward to serving on the OPFT Board and the greater Oak Park/River Forest community.

KEVIN KIRBY BOARD TREASURER
Kevin is a third generation Oak Park resident and graduate of OPRF. After a 39-year absence; Kevin and his wife LaVeta returned to Oak Park in 2016. Kevin’s Theatrical career started at OPRF where he was an active member of the stage crew. Kevin studied Technical Theater in college and worked for four years as the Technical Director and Lighting Designer at Player Theater of Columbus Ohio. Kevin’s wife LaVeta is an active artist and member of the Oak Park Art League and has previously worked as a costume designer. Their Oldest daughter works in the film and music industry in Los Angeles and their younger daughter is a Physician’s Assistant and the mother of their Grandson. Kevin has a BA from Southern Illinois University and an MBA from Northern Illinois University. Kevin previously served on the board of directors for the Chicago Zoological Society.  Kevin is a retired business executive having served as the Chief Customer Officer for Nicor Gas and Chief Sustainability Officer for Southern Company Gas. Kevin’s encore career is a Real Estate Broker at Coldwell Banker in Oak Park.

WARREN “CHRIS” RILEY SECRETARY
Warren “Chris” Riley has lived in Oak Park since his teenage years. As a child of a military family that spent much of their time overseas, he has always had a great interest in culture. Chris was first introduced to Shakespeare in the fourth grade while attending an extracurricular activity and the first Shakespeare play Chris attended was a high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, during a middle school field trip. Chris also enjoys the various live performing arts that can be found around Chicago including productions at the Black Ensemble Theatre and Second City. Professionally, Chris works as an Operations Manager at Insight Chicago Hospital. He has always had a passion for giving back to the community and has found a line of work in which he can do so every day. He holds an MBA from Concordia University Chicago, where he specialized in Leadership and Change Management, and also holds a BS in Psychology from Western Illinois University, with a minor in Sociology. Chris is currently pursuing his Doctorate of Business Administration at Concordia University Chicago, where he is working on a dissertation that is exploring Diversity in Fortune 100 C-Suites in America. Chris is also a huge Chicago Sports fan and brings that enthusiasm to everything he does.

BARBARA CIMAGLIO PAST PRESIDENT
Barbara Cimaglio is a native Chicagoan who moved to Oak Park in 2017 following her retirement as Deputy Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health. After living away from the area for 20 years she and her husband Dan Cimaglio, a native of Oak Park, chose to return home to be close to family and life-long friends. Barbara is an avid theater lover and has attended performances of local and professional theater wherever she has lived. In her thirteen years in Shelburne, Vermont she served on the Board of the Shelburne Players, the local community theater. It was there she came to appreciate the tremendous dedication of the people “behind the scenes” who make it all possible. Barbara is also a Commissioner on the Aging in Communities Commission of the Village of Oak Park. Her passion is strengthening community through social programs and the arts. In her free time she enjoys travel, art, film, reading and cooking. She brings her strong human resources and program administrative skills as well as her love of theater to her role on the Board.

MARY DEYOE BOARD MEMBER

Mary DeYoe has spent her professional career working in non-profit fundraising primarily in the visual arts. Currently she is a major gift officer at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she raises critical funds for the museum’s operations and special projects. Previously Mary was the Director of Development at the Chicago Artists Coalition. She has worked for EXPO Chicago, Chicago Ideas Week, and is a contributing writer for Chicago Gallery News. Mary lives in Oak Park with her husband and cocker spaniel, Frankie. She is a tennis player, gardener, and home remodel enthusiast. Mary was raised not far from Chicago in Highland Park. She graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in English and History of Art, and received an MFA in Poetry from Vanderbilt. 

EDWARD VOCI BOARD MEMBER
Edward is a 26-year resident of River Forest where he and his spouse, Gina, are active community members. The Voci’s two daughters attended Oak Park and River Forest schools including West Suburban Montessori School where he served on its Board for three years, initiating and overseeing a scholarship program. A civil rights, employment, and defense of evictions litigator, he teaches tenant rights and worker rights clinical courses for the Justice Studies Dept. at Northeastern Illinois University. During the 1990’s he served as the second General Counsel and Litigation Director for the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, a fair housing organization founded by Dr. Martin Luther King in 1966. He served as Adjunct Faculty member at John Marshall Law School and Visiting Clinical Professor at its Fair Housing Clinic in which he had a hand establishing. Both a supporter of the arts and a performer, Edward is an auxiliary percussionist with the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra, appears as a Regular Supernumerary in operas at Lyric Opera of Chicago, and recently appeared in both leading and supporting roles in theater productions such as Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Pericles Prince of Tyre, The Crucible, Blues for Mr. Charlie, The Fantasticks! and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Also a lyricist, Woodstock Records recently released two of his songs, “Mississippi Missive: A Ballad About The Free State of Jones” by Prof. Louie & The Crowmatix and “Never A Bad Time” by the Virgil Caine Opera Project. He is a bocce, basketball and martini enthusiast.

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