Brian S. Goodman
General Manager

2025 marks Mr. Goodman’s 48th consecutive year as General Manager at the Young Vic.

During that time, he has overseen the theatre’s development from a semi-professional, partly-student organization to a fully independent company, complete with a permanent endowment and independent Board of Directors.

Mr. Goodman is a partner in the law firm of Goodman & Arnold, where he specializes in first and third party insurance property claims and litigation, general liability work and insurance law. He has been named a Super Lawyer from 2009 to the present in the field of general litigation.

Mr. Goodman is also general counsel to the National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters and was honored as its 2005 person of the year.

His daughter Fallon is a graduate of Bryn Mawr School, where she starred in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. She was also featured as Fleta in Young Vic's Iolanthe (2010) and currently serves as the Assistant General Manager of the company.

Catrin Rowenna Davies
Artistic Director

Catrin Rowenna Davies, director, mezzo-soprano, and arts administrator, has been an opera professional since 2001. Described by the Baltimore Sun as having “bright vocalism and flawless diction,” she has established herself as a presence both on and off the operatic stage. Born in Washington, DC, and possessing British citizenship, Ms. Davies has lived and performed in the United States, Canada, and the UK.

A self-identifying G&S fanatic, Ms. Davies has been the Artistic Director of the Young Victorian Theatre Company since 2019. Prior to that, Ms. Davies had a long association with Young Vic: ten roles and one assistant directorship over the course of two decades. In addition to Young Vic, she been in staged productions of almost all of the G&S operettas (including The Grand Duke), has performed at the International Festival of Gilbert & Sullivan in Buxton, England, and has lectured on G&S for Elderhostel/Road Scholar.

Ms. Davies started her directing career in 2007 by assisting director Garnett Bruce in Peabody Opera’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. After this auspicious beginning, she embarked on a successful regional career. This past season, she directed Albert Herring for Opera Baltimore and La Fille du Regiment for Bel Cantanti. She also returned to the Greenville Symphony Orchestra to direct their “Holiday at Peace”. Other recent credits include: Eugene Onegin, Faust, Turn of the Screw, Adriana Lecouvreur The Medium (Opera Baltimore), La Traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Faust (Summer Garden Opera), and Carmen, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Rigoletto (Bel Cantanti.)

Another frequent partner is Live Arts Maryland, where she has directed South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, The Fantasticks, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, Secret Garden, Kiss Me Kate, and HMS Pinafore, the latter for which she received the following accolade from The Capital: “The staging and directing was handled absolutely brilliantly by Catrin Davies…”

In the academic realm, Ms. Davies is adjunct faculty at the Peabody Conservatory. She holds an honors degree in history from McGill University, a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies from Oxford University, and graduate diplomas from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and the Peabody Conservatory.

J. Ernest Green
Music Director & Conductor

J. Ernest Green is the Artistic Director of Live Arts Maryland and the Music Director of the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra and Annapolis Chorale. He is the Music Director and Conductor for the Bach+ Consort and The Young Victorian Theatre Company (summer operetta in Baltimore).

He served as a Cover Conductor with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he worked with such artists as Metropolitan Opera star Denyce Graves, Sir James Galway, Pinchas Zuckerman, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Osmo Vanska, among others. While with the NSO he received acclaim for conducting the Orchestra for a subscription weekend with a last-minute call of less than 20 minutes notice!

Mr. Green conducts for Late Night Music Director Paul Shaffer for his symphony show. Guest artists on these concerts have included Valerie Simpson (of Ashford and Simpson) and Thelma Houston. They have done shows with the Kalamazoo Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Long Beach Symphony and Vancouver Symphony, the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra among others.

As a Pops Conductor, he worked with and conducted for the late Marvin Hamlisch. Mr. Green conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s tribute to Mr. Hamlisch, featuring Idina Menzel, Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz, Maria Friedman, Brian D’Arcy James, and Klea Blackhurst, and was the Musical Advisor for the Memorial Concert for Mr. Hamlisch at The Juilliard School where he worked with Mike Nichols, Liza Minnelli, Aretha Franklin, Chris Botti, Kevin Cole, Maria Friedman, Lang Lang, and Barbra Streisand.

J. Ernest Green has appeared with many orchestras including The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, The Florida Orchestra, The Kalamazoo Symphony, The Long Beach Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Lincoln Symphony, Orquestra Sinfonica Nacional (Santo Domingo), Mesa Symphony, and the Trinity Chamber Orchestra (Cleveland). He has toured with the Ballet Arabesque (Bulgaria), Mozart Festival Opera, and the Teatro Lirico d’Europa and has lead opera and ballet productions both in the US and abroad.

He is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music and while there, was a student of famed mentor and conducting pedagogue Frederik Prausnitz, for whom he was also an assistant conductor. In addition to his musical activities, Mr. Green is an avid advocate for the arts. He has served as a music panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council and an advisor on its Strategic Planning Committee. In 2002, he was given the Performing Arts Award by the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, and in 2012, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Fallon Goodman
Assistant General Manager

Fallon Goodman was born to Young Vic’s own General Manager Brian Goodman and his wife Laurie on October 12, 1992, and the rest is history. An eager young mezzo-soprano, she spent her youth running around backstage, eventually made her way onstage in over a decade’s worth of summer performances with Young Vic, and continued to contribute behind the scenes when she left Baltimore for college and whether it was controlling the spotlight, assisting with wigs and makeup, penning editorials, and the like.

While she has spent much of her life creating and performing music in various a cappella groups and theatre troupes, none have been so close to her as Young Vic, for this institution is like coming home. She has lived and breathed it since before she was born – Fallon’s mother fondly recalls during her pregnancy Fallon kicking furiously whenever the music began. She returns this year as Assistant General Manager under the guidance of her tenured father.