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NEW YORK CITY: Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has introduced new trustees and an up to date listing of officers for its board of administrators. American Conservatory Theater government director Jennifer Bielstein, Black Trans Liberation founder Qween Jean, and designer and producing artistic director of Encores! Clint Ramos will be a part of the board.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Jennifer, Qween Jean, and Clint to the TCG board at this critical moment of reopening and reimagining our field,” TCG government director Teresa Eyring stated in an announcement. “They join a dynamic group of trustees who are working with TCG’s staff and the field to advance our renewed mission: to lead for a just and thriving theatre ecology.”
Additionally, TCG has developed its governance ecology to mannequin new methods of sharing energy on the board degree. In the place of a single board construction, TCG will likely be ruled by a Viability Board, working alongside process forces in 4 precedence areas: Next Generation, Breaking Barriers, Global Connectivity, and Capitalization.
Actor, playwright, and professor Nikkole Salter will stay as chair of the Viability Board together with two returning vice chairs, Ensemble Theatre inventive director Eileen J. Morris and architect John Fontillas. They will likely be joined by new vice chair Hana Sharif, inventive director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.
Angela Lee Gieras of Kansas City Repertory Theatre will stay as treasurer, and Lisa Portes of the Theatre School at DePaul University will stay as secretary.
The Capitalization process pressure identifies sources, develops methods, leverage relationships, and individually and collectively advocates in securing funding for TCG. It is co-chaired by the Theater Offensive government director Harold Steward and ZACH Theatre managing director Jamie Herlich McIalwain, and is supported by TCG workers members Lisa Patterson and LaTeshia Ellerson.
The Global Connectivity process pressure identifies and bridges new relationships with theatre ecology influencers and supporters past the United States to broaden and deepen TCG’s management. The process pressure consists of Aurora Theatre co-founder Anthony Rodriguez, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble co-founder Laurie McCants, Cleveland Public Theatre government inventive director Raymond Bobgan, Derek Goldman, Mara Isaacs, Monica Risi, Lloyd Nyikadzino, Joanne Seelig Lamparter, Dr. Nabil Bahgat Ahmed, and Howard Shalwitz. It is supported by TCG workers members Big Kongseng and Omar Mardini.
The Breaking Barriers process pressure seeks to determine systemic, structural, cultural, or narrative boundaries to making a simply and thriving theatre ecology and develop strategic suggestions to TCG as to the way it can improve its management. The process pressure is co-chaired by Sharif and Reggie White and consists of Salter, Rhonda Wilson, Meredith Suttles, Marya Sea Kaminski, and Marcela Lorca. It is supported by TCG workers members Elena Chang and Mardini.
The Next Generation process pressure develops and recommends communications, engagement, and retention methods directed at subsequent technology theatre makers, practitioners, directors, and lovers, with a selected give attention to younger makers within the college theatre neighborhood. The process pressure consists of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and UCLA American Indian Studies professor and inventive director of the American Indian Dance Theatre Hanay Geiogamah, Oregon Shakespeare Festival inventive director Nataki Garrett, Fontillas, SocialScopes Productions director Merrique Jenson, Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama professor Will Davis, Jackson Cooper, Deonte Griffin-Quick, Abigail Vega, Justin Lucero, Mackenzie Duan, Brandall Jones, Evan Aanerud, and Annaleise Loxton.
Returning members for the Viability Board embody director May Adrales, Bobgan, wealth administration director Ralph Bryan, Playwrights’ Center producing inventive director Jeremy Cohen, Davis, American Repertory Theater government director Kelvin Dinkins Jr., Eyring, Fontillas, Garrett, Geiogamah, Gieras, McIalwain, Jenson, McCants, Morris, artist Ellen Richard, Rodriguez, Salter, Sharif, and Steward.
Theatre Communications Group is the nationwide group for theatre and leads for a simply and thriving theatre ecology. Through its applications and providers, TCG reaches over a million college students, viewers members, and theatre professionals every year. They are additionally the writer of this journal.
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