Suzanne Appel Named Managing Director of South Coast Rep
She’ll leave her post at NYC’s Vineyard Theatre to succeed Paula Tomei at the Southern California new-play powerhouse.
She’ll leave her post at NYC’s Vineyard Theatre to succeed Paula Tomei at the Southern California new-play powerhouse.
The theatre was stabilizing after a rough decade, and then Covid hit, offering fresh challenges and opportunities, including a move to a new venue.
South Coast Rep puts Lillian Hellman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays about Southern inheritance into rotating, and possibly revealing, repertory.
Some companies, eager to return to the stage, are building new ones outdoors, gambling that al fresco offerings will both serve and draw their communities.
10 new artistic directors talk about their visions for their communities, and for the theatre field writ large.
Ivers, currently a.d. at Arizona Theatre Company, will succeed Marc Masterson beginning in March 2019.
Ivers will succeed David Ira Goldstein in the role this July.