WAM Theatre Co-Founder Kristen van Ginhoven to Step Down
After 14 years with the arts activism organization, its producing artistic director will leave at the end of 2023.
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After 14 years with the arts activism organization, its producing artistic director will leave at the end of 2023.
The Boston high schooler took first place and a $3,000 scholarship, with Atlanta’s Eryn Regans in second and Greensboro, N.C.’s Laylah Cooper-Hallman third.
Cox will supervise the producing and casting teams.
Guadalís Del Carmen, Dave Harris, Rachel Lynett, and Sanaz Toossi will develop new works with support from the Binger Center for New Theatre.
In addition to $10,000 for the designer, the foundation also offers a grant to any Connecticut theatre that hires Martínez Garcia in the next two years.
For the versatile playwright-performer, whose ‘Joy and Pandemic’ is up at the Huntington, writing is a way to understand themself and the world.
The playwright of ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Good People’ reflects on a body of work that has evolved in style but can’t help but show his roots.
Both playwrights will have their writing workshopped in Portland Stage’s upcoming Little Festival of the Unexpected; Benne’s ‘Manning’ will get a full mainstage production.
The former COO of Thompson Turner Productions will join artistic director Lynne Bolton and producing director/co-artistic director Michael Kopko in leading the summer theatre.
When SpeakEasy Stage Company puts on plays featuring cross-cultural currents and racial conflicts, Kira Troilo’s consulting work proves crucial.