Artistic Director Brandon Carter to Leave American Shakespeare Center
The theatre’s first leader of color, who has acted with the company since 2018, will step down after 4 years in the position.
The theatre’s first leader of color, who has acted with the company since 2018, will step down after 4 years in the position.
The L.A. theatre’s co-founder, a busy writer and director both at his company and elsewhere, will step down at the end of the year.
As managing director of strategy and transformation, Picciarelli will work with yet-to-be-named partners in a new collective leadership model.
The co-artistic leaders will join managing director Megan Wanlass in a leadership triumvirate, succeeding Michael John Garcés.
She’ll leave in March after 4 four years in the role.
The producing artistic director has been with Unicorn since 1979.
He’ll leave the Pittsburgh company in June, capping a 45-year career which emphasized new-play development at various theatres, including South Coast Rep and Actors Theatre of Louisville.
The acclaimed director, a co-founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons, has relocated from Chicago to California for the job.
Watson comes to Playwrights’ Center from the McCarter Theatre Center.
Coreno succeeds co-founding producing artistic director Kristen van Ginhoven, who is stepping away after 14 years.