Janine Bonilla - Marketing Associate

Marketing Associate

Janine Bonilla is a New Orleans–based marketing strategist, actor, and creative with experience in public-sector and technology marketing. She holds an MBA in Business and a BA in Advertising and Public Relations from Point Park University. Alongside her marketing career, Janine is active in the New Orleans theatre community, currently performing with Fat Squirrel in Amadeus and continuing her training with Crescent City Stage. At Goat in the Road Productions, she brings together her background in strategy, communications, storytelling, and performance to help connect audiences with the company’s work.

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.  

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. 

Emma Schillage - Teaching Artist

Teaching Artist

Emma Schillage is a playwright, actor, and arts educator from Southern Louisiana. As an educator, Emma has taught theatre, directing, playwriting, and Shakespeare technique to students from first grade through the undergraduate level, including directing and playwriting courses at Loyola University New Orleans. In addition to their work with GRP, Emma has written several plays, including Cockroaches, which received its world premiere in Palm Springs, California, in April 2026 and is published by 1319 Press. Their short play Opposable Thumbs appears in a Methuen Drama collection. As an actor, Emma has performed with The NOLA Project, The Talkback Theatre, and Pomegranate Playhouse. Emma earned their bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from Loyola University New Orleans and their master's degree in Playwriting from Columbia University. When not doing theatre, you can find Emma reading, cooking, consulting their tarot deck, or cuddling with their cat, Salem.

Maggie Tonra - Teaching Artist

Teaching Artist

Maggie Tonra is a teaching artist, director, and performer originally from San Antonio, Texas. She is passionate about bringing new stories to life and is a proud member of Goat in the Road, where she has participated in Goat in the Schools and Top Five Survival Moves. She loves working with young artists and finds joy in helping bring their original work to the stage. Previously, Maggie taught and directed at MacArthur High School in San Antonio and participated in the UIL One-Act Play competition. She has received five Best Actor awards from the Alamo Theatre Arts Council. She trained as a performer at DePaul University and earned her MFA in Directing from the University of New Orleans. Currently, Maggie is a teaching artist with GRP. She also helps lead the drama club at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women with ArtSpot Productions, where participants create and perform an original play each year. You can find Maggie on the streets of New Orleans dancing and playing with Tamojunto, an Afro-Brazilian rhythm krewe. Outside the theatre, she loves sailing, hiking, and spending time with her sweet dog, Amadeus.