Lena Carstens: managing director, Dad's Garage.(How to Stay Crazy)

LENA CARSTENS is in New York City for the weekend, and tonight her old stage-managing buddies are primed to give her a hard time for turning her back on the Broadway life. "They're going to make fun of me," she says good-naturedly. "They always do. But commercial theatre, at the end of the day, is about investors. And it's hard for me to get excited about making money for shareholders." Luckily, this sharp-eyed, Georgia-raised 28-year-old has landed back home (and in the not-for-profit theatre) as the managing director of Atlanta's irreverent and fast-growing ...