NEW YORK: Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has named Kathy Sova and Erin Salvi co-publishers of the TCG Books program. Sova and Salvi will work with outgoing writer Terry Nemeth by way of January to handle the transition, and Nemeth will keep on as writer emeritus.

“After a robust search that included a consultative process with leaders in the publishing field, it became clear that successfully transitioning from Terry’s leadership as founding publisher would require us to think differently,” Teresa Eyring, TCG’s government director and CEO, mentioned in a press release. “Through this shared leadership model, the unique strengths and experiences that Erin and Kathy each bring to the work will build on Terry Nemeth’s extraordinary legacy. Under Kathy and Erin’s shared leadership, that legacy will surely grow to new heights.”

The co-publishers will work collectively on the editorial choice course of. Sova will oversee editorial selections, e book designs, writer relations, and contracting, whereas Salvi will oversee funds and title distribution. Additionally, the co-publishers may even oversee TCG’s One Million Books marketing campaign, which is able to make a million TCG titles accessible to varsities and universities, public libraries, neighborhood facilities, and impartial bookstores.

“I’m thrilled to be stepping into this new role in partnership with my wonderful colleague Kathy,” Salvi mentioned in a press release. “Under the leadership of the inimitable Terry Nemeth, TCG Books has become an essential part of the theatre ecology, providing plays with their much-deserved place alongside other forms of literature. I look forward to building on this strong foundation and continuing to evolve as a publisher alongside the theatre field.”

“It has been the greatest gift in my life to work with our playwrights and the theatre field,” Sova added in a press release. “To spend the majority of my life, nearly 30 years, working with the country’s greatest playwrights is a continual pinch-me moment: How did I get so lucky? And then to luckily parallel someone like Terry in this niche, but exquisite, genre of publishing—let’s just say that I am forever changed about what dedication to writers and their voices means.”

During her 28 years at TCG, Sova has managed the editorial and manufacturing work for TCG Books and has edited performs and theatre reference books. She has edited titles by Annie Baker, Aleshea Harris, Jeremy O. Harris, Adrienne Kennedy, Athol Fugard, Tony Kushner, Suzan Lori-Parks, Lynn Nottage, and lots of others, in addition to the Thornton Wilder property. Sova launched TCG’s playwright sequence with the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn and is collaborating with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on the event of the Illuminations sequence, a publishing initiative to deliver renewed consideration to neglected performs by Black playwrights. The Illuminations sequence launched final 12 months with Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind and hopes to publish 10 performs in 5 years, accompanied by essays by up to date Black playwrights.

Salvi has been within the publishing business for over a decade and was beforehand the publications director at Playscripts, Inc. She joined TCG in 2015 and has served as a liaison to Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, the distributor of TCG Books, and with TCG’s associate publishers. She has additionally overseen e book conversions, dealt with subsidiary rights, and managed short-run printing and print-on-demand for a lot of titles, amongst different tasks. For 5 years, Salvi served because the co-chair of TCG’s fairness, range, and inclusion workgroup to make sure accountability to TCG’s mission and office targets.

Theatre Communications Group is the nationwide group for theatre and leads for a simply and thriving theatre ecology. Through its applications and companies, TCG reaches over a million college students, viewers members, and theatre professionals annually. TCG Books commits to the lifelong profession of its playwrights by holding all of their performs in print. TCG Books has grown to turn out to be the most important impartial commerce writer of dramatic literature in North America, with a catalog of practically 500 titles, together with 19 Pulitzer Prize-winning performs.

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