About Us

Guy LaMothe joined the Faerie Playhouse Board as a liaison from the Louisiana LGBT+ Archives Project, where he currently serves as Board President. He studied history as an undergraduate and received a Master’s from Harvard Divinity School (’97). Guy was Ordained into Protestant ministry and openly served congregations over a twenty year period. He currently leads neighborhood walking tours that portray the history, culture, and architectural heritage of New Orleans. As a perpetual student of history, Guy is committed to preserving Queer history in all its diversity. He resides with his husband in their restored Faubourg Marigny home.

Eileen D. Tomczuk is a research assistant at the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking, a PhD student in Urban Studies at Tulane University, and an active board member for the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana and the Faerie Playhouse Center. Eileen has 10+ years of professional experience in museums, including roles at the Louisiana State Museum, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center, and The National WWII Museum. Eileen has an MA in Museology and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington. She earned a BA with a double major in Art History and Film Studies from Tulane University.

The Mobile, Alabama native, was a community activist in Birmingham and Alabama from 1977-1989 with Lambda, Inc., Alabama Conference for Personal Rights, The Southeastern Conference for Lesbians & Gay Men, Inc., Birmingham AIDS Outreach, and The AIDS Task Force of Alabama. Ron met Stewart Butler during the 8th Annual Southeastern Conference for Lesbians & Gay Men, and both served as board members of the Southeastern Conference for Lesbians & Gay Men, Incorporated.Ron and spouse Tim Angle became regular visitors to the Butler/Doolittle household in1990 and subsequently Faerie Playhouse family members.

Courtney Sharp brings over 30 years of experience in LGBTQ activism and nonprofit governance experience. She received the 2023 Ambush Magazine GAA Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2023 PFLAG New Orleans Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2024 HRC Louisiana Equality Award. Alongside longtime friend Stewart Butler, she was instrumental in the passage of a non-discrimination ordinance for gender identity and expression in New Orleans in July 1998, the first in a Southern state. Her grassroots activism also pushed national gay and lesbian organizations to include transgender people in their mission, including PFLAG and the Human Rights Campaign. Courtney has served as a Board Member of the Gulf Gender Alliance, LAGPAC and PFLAG New Orleans. She was also the first transgender member of the national PFLAG Board of Directors. In addition to the Faerie Playhouse, Courtney also currently serves on the LGBTQ Advisory Committee for the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

Wes brings over 20 years experience in grassroots organizing and movement building work, primarily at the intersections of racial justice and queer and trans liberation in the South, with a specific focus on campaigns to end criminalization. He is a 2011 Soros U.S. Justice Fellow with Open Society Foundation and co-founded an LGBTQ youth justice organization in New Orleans, BreakOUT!, where he served as the Executive Director for 6 years. In his current role as a consultant, he works with small to mid-size nonprofits on issues ranging from organizational development and fundraising to communications and campaign strategy. Wes is deeply grateful for gay elders like Stewart Butler and is a proud member of the Faerie Playhouse family.

Bill Hagler was born in Maryland in 1948 and lived in Alabama for much of his life as a retail store owner and operator. Bill was involved with Lambda, Inc. a gay rights organization that organized the first gay pride parade in Birmingham, AL in 1979. For the past 20 years, Bill has lived at The Faerie Playhouse, including serving  as Stewart Butler's live-in caregiver for a decade until his death in 2020.  Bill continues to reside at the The Faerie Playhouse and serves as the house’s primary caretaker.

Harry “Pete” Pietens is an Assistant Vice President at a global bank.  He has been a board member at several non-profit organizations, since the 1990s.

Charles Paul is a Certified Public Accountant in Texas with family ties to the New Orleans area.  He has been an auditor of, and an advisor to, numerous non-profit organizations over the past four decades.