About Us


The Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts (WCPA) was incorporated in 1992 and received its not-for-profit status the following year. Our goals are to provide a Center for the Performing Arts in the picturesque Wet Mountain Valley of Colorado. We encourage new playwrights and provide classes and theater training each summer through the co-operation of local universities.

The Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts (WCPA) is housed in the Historic Jones Theater and in the adjoining Studio 2 at 2nd and Main Streets in Westcliffe, Colorado. We provide a full summer season of plays, music, dance and classic as well as year-round first run motion pictures. We produce both new plays and musicals as well seasoned favorites: comedy, drama, melodrama and one man and woman shows.

Meet the Board of Directors


The following are Members of the Board and Key Staff Members of the WCPA Non-Profit Corporation.  All members of the board have specific areas of expertise and authority. Election is for a staggered two- or three-year term. The board meets quarterly.

Anne Kimbell Relph, President and Executive/Artistic Director, Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts (WCPA), Jones Theater, Westcliffe, CO (home of the Center); Retired Executive Director, University of Southern California, Orange County Center (graduate campus), CA; former professional film and stage actress; and Westcliffe, CO, landowner and resident. 

Roland Williams, Vice President; WCPA member of the board; retired civil engineer; Facilities Committee, contracts supervision; landowner, Westcliffe, CO.

S. T. Stagg III, WCPA member of the board; retired Army officer, landowner and part-year resident of Westcliffe, CO; Managing Director, KS International, Mission Viejo, CA.

Don Bishop, WPCA member of the board; Facilities Manager, Jones Theater and Studio 2; Retired Broker, REMAX Realty; rancher, resident and landowner, Silver Cliff, CO. 

Marci Gregg, WCPA member of the board; Coordinator of Volunteers; retired from the computer industry, landowner, Westcliffe, CO.

Ray Herrick, WCPA member of the board; Chair, Endowment Committee; former bank officer; landowner, Westcliffe, CO.

Steve Miller, WCPA member of the board; 2010 Director, New Rocky Mountain Voices Original Play competition; Retired Pastor, First Methodist Church, Westcliffe; landowner and resident, Westcliffe, CO.

Christiane K. Potts, WCPA member of the board; Chair, Fundraising Committee; Assistant Development Director, Seattle, WA; landowner and part year resident, Westcliffe, CO.

Katherine Ripley-Williams, WCPA member of the board; Chair, Long Range Planning and Development Committee; retired Executive Director of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation; Vice President, Development, University of Colorado Hospital; resident and landowner, Westcliffe, CO.

Anne Robey, WCPA member of the board, Secretary; retired computer consultant; Chair, Technical and Computer Committee; landowner, Westcliffe, CO.

Steve Willman, WCPA member of the board, Treasurer; Chair, Greening of the Facilities Committeeowner Sangre de Christo Art Gallery; artist, landowner and resident, Westcliffe, CO.

Rev. 5/1/2012

Read about the HISTORY OF THE JONES THEATER, and it's beginnings during Colorado's great Silver and Mining Boom around 1880.