Staff & Board

Frank moved to Nantucket in 2018 for a short-term job at Nantucket Community Television (NCTV). Among his first projects was The Island Cup documentary, which quickly became a long-term project, like his job at NCTV.

On Nantucket, he has been able to pursue his love of creating documentaries, sailing, and the outdoors. In 2026, he became the Executive Director of NCTV and enjoys the organization's mission to serve the community.

Originally from the UK, Lisa served as NCTV's Executive Director from 2014 to 2026. She has been an island resident since 2001 and became a founding partner of Nantucket Event Media in 2003. With a passion for photography and film, her specialty has always been capturing life. Alongside her skillset in production, Lisa also has a background in finance.

Charles joined NCTV in mid-2022 in the newly created role of Government Services Manager to deliver first class civic media for the Town & County of Nantucket. He brings to this effort an extensive set of skills and experiences from a dozen years spent at five stations across the three West Coast states, where he personally produced over 3,500 hours of live government meetings at the city, county, and state level. He's done everything from engineering newly-equipped meeting rooms, to teaching video production & media literacy classes for everyone from kids to seniors, to producing/directing numerous live productions in studio and live streamed from remote locations. Charles won two WAVE awards in the space of a year for filming & editing special productions helping a community recover from a mass shooting as well as a spotlight on efforts to feed the less fortunate.

Charles has a deep background prior to community media operations as a working journalist in the rural redwood coast of far northwestern California, where he covered local government, politics and criminal justice in print, on the radio and eventually as an early adopter of new media, launching his own Internet-based news platform in 2005. After spending most of the last decade in the Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon and the Lower Columbia region of Southwest Washington, he's delighted to be back on the beach given his upbringing in Manhattan Beach and summers spent sailing to Catalina Island.

Dee White is a creative director and editor with more than 15 years of experience in post-production.

Dee has worked across commercials, branded content, documentaries and narrative films. While editing remains at the heart of what she does, her work often extends beyond the edit: helping shape ideas and developing stories from concept through final delivery. Her work has earned four Telly Awards.

In 2018, Dee joined Nantucket Community Television (NCTV) as lead editor, videographer, and motion graphics artist. During her time there, she also taught NCTV's Whaler Media & Journalism 101 youth programs. In late 2021, she moved to New York City to join the creative studio & production company Sibling Rivalry, where she currently works as an editor. She continues to collaborate with NCTV on select projects as a remote freelance editor.

Mark is a cinematographer, producer, and Nantucket native with one foot in Los Angeles and the other on-island. He has been part of the NCTV freelance team since 2015.

Dan held a camera in his hands for the first time when he was ten years old. Fast forward many decades, he has since directed hundreds and hundreds of national and regional television commercials and films over much of the globe and his photographs grace the cover and interior of several books about Nantucket. The self-described ‘visual artist’ and his wife Connie moved to Nantucket fulltime in 1997 after falling in love with the island in 1971 when they first started visiting. He continues to create short brand films and commercials for Nantucket non-profits as well creating wedding films for a few select clients.

John moved to Nantucket year-round in 2007 and became an active member of the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. That activity morphed into an interest in film and film-making. Four years ago he was drawn to NCTV by the Nantucket Short Film festival and has been involved with NCTV ever since making short films and now on our board.

A little too early in his youth, at thirteen years old, Jonathan began working at a television station on Nantucket where he operated a camera for the evening news. At the age of fifteen, he was promoted to technical director, and director of news soon after. This experience inspired him to pursue further work in other areas of film and television as a cameraman. After college, Jonathan worked on dozens of television shows and feature films. Some feature film credits include “Do the Right Thing,” “Mo' Better Blues,” “Mountain View,” “A Better Tomorrow,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Roommates,” and “Reversal of Fortune.”

Jonathan went on to produce independent film, television, and theater. He produced the award-winning film “Baby Steps” starring Kathy Bates, written and directed by Geoffrey Nauffts. Jonathan has also produced several other feature films: “Higher Ground,” directed by Vera Farmiga; “Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding,” directed by Bruce Beresford; “Rhymes with Banana,” directed by Joe Muszynski and Peter Hutchings; “The Independents” by Greg Naughton; “Little Faith” by Milena Lurie; and Keith Bearden's “Antarctica.”

Television projects include the scripted episodic series “Almost There,” starring Steven Pasquale and Christopher Fitzgerald, “Ivy Dreams,” a feature documentary for AZN, “Must Do Disney” for Disney, The Super Bowl Halftime Show for the NFL, and “Away We Go” by Jonathan Larson.

In theater, Jonathan produced the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Mario Cantone's “Laugh Whore,” which he also produced as a television special for The Showtime Network. He also produced the award-winning play “Avow” with Bill C. Davis, and the 10th anniversary production of “RENT” on Broadway with the original cast.

Jonathan is the co-founder and president of the Nantucket Film Festival, dedicated to honoring screenwriters and their craft. The Festival launched in 1996 and has since celebrated many prolific writers and filmmakers.

When Penny was a child, she was lucky enough to spend half of each summer at the former life saving station in Quidnet. Perched facing east on the bluff above the ocean beach, it was called “Humane House No. 66.” When she and her family would see the sunrise they would say, “There is nothing from here to Portugal.” There was a lot of freedom to create their own world in the village.

When she was seventeen years old, she decided to “try it for a winter” and stay on Nantucket instead of going back to college. As her parents drove to the ferry leaving her sitting on the curb outside the Club Car, they thought it was “just a phase.” That was 46 years ago.

After seventeen years of working various jobs on the island, Penny felt the need to work for herself and was able to take her skills and experience and start Atlantic East Real Estate with her business partner. Nantucket has a long history of women-owned businesses and Penny takes pride in that she and her business partner have been able to be true to their founding principles.

Penny has a long-held interest in giving to the community of Nantucket and has served on various boards and commissions over the years. Currently, she serves as a corporator of Cape Cod Five Bank and is on the boards of Nantucket Community Sailing, the Nantucket Housing Authority, the Affordable Housing Trust, and the Real Estate Assessment Committee of the Town of Nantucket. Penny also serves as the president of the Nantucket Association of Real Estate Brokers.

Tom and his wife MJ moved to Nantucket in 1979. He has been involved in island commerce, community boards, and town committees since that time. One of his last ventures was owning and operating Orange Street Video and recently created KIC/KEEP IT CLEAN, an initiative to educate children and adults how to be responsible for their environment, whether on-island or around the globe.

Joanne was born on Nantucket but moved to Hyannis as an infant when her mother got a job teaching in Hyannis. She eventually ended up in Florida where she completed her education before moving back to Nantucket in 1982. Joanne has been a presence in the Nantucket Public School system for over 40 years starting with substitute teaching in 1982 to her current role as Database Administrator/Network Operations. In addition to her education involvement, Joanne was a computer consultant helping homeowners and businesses with their problems and writing custom programs. She also owned and operated Perennial Gardens Nursery on Hummock Pond Road for 20 years.

Brooke sits on the NCTV board as the Select Board representative. Her connection to Nantucket dates back to 1985. She and her husband Charlie raised four “summer kids” here and moved to the island full time in 2013. Now they are grandparents of six, two of whom are island natives. Brooke has served on the Affordable Housing Trust, Council for Human Services, and Contract Review Committee. She is passionate about ensuring that our diverse, multilingual community has access to information and activities through effective translation and interpretation services and technology.

Florencia is the Town of Nantucket Public Outreach Coordinator. She is an English to Spanish translator with a minor in design. Florencia uses her passion for language to better connect people. She has been a member of the NCTV Board since July 2017.

Lisa P. Soeder is the owner and a Tax Partner at the woman-owned municipal finance law firm of Soeder & Associates, LLC, which she founded in 1999, a firm consistently ranked number two tax counsel in the country by dollar volume. She was previously a partner in the tax departments of Hawkins, Delafield & Wood and of Nixon, Peabody.

In her law practice, she has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL) and of the American College of Bond Counsel. She has chaired and served on panels at NABL's Bond Attorney's Workshop and its Tax and Securities Law Institute, as well as for the Practicing Law Institute, the Council of Infrastructure Finance Authorities, the Connecticut Treasurer Symposiums, the Government Finance Officers Association and others. She was also the Editor-in-Chief of NABL's three-person Editorial Committee which compiled, published and updates the 13 volumes of the Federal Taxation of Municipal Bonds, which comprise the leading research library in the municipal business. Ms. Soeder is admitted to the bars of, and is a real estate broker in, Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut.

In her personal life, Ms. Soeder has owned two historic bed and breakfasts and a restaurant in Nantucket, served on the founding Board of and is a co-owner of a genetically guided fitness and nutrition company located in California and Colorado, is an investor in a certified organic algae company in New Mexico, and an investor in a retail and clothing company based in Santa Monica, California and in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She serves on the boards of The Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (where she envisioned, founded and chaired TWN's LunaFest for eight years, and currently serves on the Executive, Development, and Nominating and Governance Committees), the Nantucket Comedy Festival (where she has chaired its Palm Beach Gala in recent years) and Nantucket Community Television (where she co-chairs the NEW Moon Festival). She has also been involved since 2007 in raising funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society when she became the LLS Woman of the Year for her philanthropic efforts.