David Schmitz Joins People’s Light as Interim Managing Director
He’ll fill the role recently left by Erica Ezold while the Pennsylvania company seeks a successor.
He’ll fill the role recently left by Erica Ezold while the Pennsylvania company seeks a successor.
Livingston will head to Houston this August.
A longtime performer and teaching artist with the company, she will serve alongside managing director Anh Thu T. Pham while a successor for Lily Tung Crystal is sought.
The company’s current managing director will merge that role with that of artistic director, which Kelly Kerwin will leave in June.
The executive director has been with the company for 23 years.
The former Timber Lake Playhouse artistic director succeeds Matthew Scott Campbell in the position, who left to join Barter Theatre in December.
The writer of ‘Slave Play’ will helm a new multidisciplinary programming model at the Berkshires festival, to be previewed this summer for a 2025 launch.
A Southern California native whose career has taken her to the Bay Area and the Twin Cities, she will succeed Snehal Desai in leading the L.A. company.
Co-artistic director Jay Duffer will take over as the company’s sole leader.
Berry comes to New York from Minnesota’s Penumbra Theatre.