Ceil Ann Herman, President

Ceil Herman is Artistic Director of No Strings Theatre Company where she directed Seascape, The Heidi Chronicles, 3 of Robert Patrick's Cheep Theatrics, A Kind of Alaska, The Lonesome West, Invisible Friends, Collected Stories, Gray, Broadway Bound, Here and The Turn of the Screw. She has been Producer for all NSTC plays since the opening of the Black Box Theatre. She directed PVT Wars, Beautiful Down Here, Squirrels, and Alien Boy at Las Cruces Community Theatre's One Act Play Festivals and Private Eyes and the award-winning Jake's Women. She also directed a rehearsed reading of Medina Ohio, 1965 for Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders, Feeding the Moonfish, Ghost World, The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry, The Wax Museum, Killers Head, and Cowboy Mouth in the Hershel Zohn Attic Theatre, and A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking for EdenView Productions. She was Assistant Director and Sound Designer for American Southwest Theatre Company's The Snow Queen and directed Feiffer's People and Marguerita's Secret Diary for A Children's Theatre. Ceil holds a Ph.D. in Biology and was a faculty member at NMSU since1979, retiring in February, 2000. She won the Donald C. Roush Award for Teaching Excellence in 1991. She has formal coursework from NMSU's Department of Theatre Arts.

R. Peter Herman, Treasurer

Peter is the Resident Designer/Technical Director of the No Strings Theatre Company and a free lance designer. He has over 140 realized set, light or set and light designs. Venues for which he has designed include:: The Hershel Zohn Mainstage, three evenings of one-acts in the Hershel Zohn Attic theatre, the Las Cruces Community Theatre, the Onate Performing Arts Center, Court Youth Center as well as dinner theatres and theatre in the NMSU Student Union Club. He was the set designer for Creede (Colorado) Repertory Theatre's Ruthless. He has formal training in lighting design, scenographics, theatre production and stagecraft from NMSU's Theatre Arts Department. and was recently the stage and lighting consultant for the Mayfield High School Theatre building. Prior to retiring from the university to persue theatre full time, Peter was a member of the NMSU Biology Department where he specialized in Microbial Ecology.

Chris Mc Donald, Secretary

Chris Mc Donald graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1970 with a degree in English. Chris then worked for the next thirty-four plus years for various Department of Defense and Department of the Army agencies in the fields of counterintelligence, information assurance, and investigations. His final assignments were at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. He is the author or co-author of dozens of technical reports and presentations on computer viruses, computer network intrusions, and the survivability/vulnerability of information systems. Chris served as the project officer for the first series of computer virus experiments conducted on Army computer systems in 1984 by Fred Cohen, a USC graduate student. This seminal work influenced the National Security Agency trusted computing system development program and preceded the arrival of a commercial anti-viral software industry. Chris also played a behind-the-scenes role in the identification and eventual prosecution of the so-called "Wily Hackers" who successfully attacked dozens of defense contractor, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, NASA, and university computer systems during the 1986-1987 timeframe. Dr. Clifford Stoll documented this first case of computer espionage in his book The Cuckoo's Egg. Chris and Mary Bochmann, his wife who was a manager at White Sands, attended their first Black Box performance in November 2000, The Heidi Chronicles. As they drove home after the show, they decided to become active Black Box volunteers when they retired in February 2003. Unfortunately Mary died in an accident in December 2000. But in the tradition of the "show must go on", Chris became a financial donor upon retirement and has now gladly accepted the responsibility to serve as a board member.