Michael Maso. (Photo by Nile Hawver.)
BOSTON: The Huntington Theatre Company has introduced that managing director Michael Maso will step down on the finish of the 2022-23 season, his forty first season within the function. He will stay on as a senior advisor and govt advisor to the corporate.
“Michael Maso is the only managing director the Huntington has ever known,” Randy Peeler, the chairman of the Huntington’s board of trustees, stated in a press release. “He leaves an indelible mark on the Huntington as an organization, the broader arts community, the city of Boston, and the national theatre community.”
Huntington’s board has engaged the consulting agency AlbertHall&Associates to guide a nationwide seek for a brand new govt chief to companion with inventive director Loretta Greco for the Huntington’s future. While Maso had meant to step down on the finish of final season, he agreed to increase his tenure for a 12 months on the urging of Greco and the board as a way to work with Greco in her first season as inventive director.
“Michael Maso has been the heart and soul of the Huntington for a remarkable 40 years,” Greco stated in a press release. “As he passes the baton to a new managing director, I’m delighted that we’ll continue to collaborate after his full-time tenure ends.”
Maso led the profitable reopening of the Huntington in October 2022 after a seven-year journey by which the theatre was on the open market and the shutdown of the theatre in 2020 because of the pandemic. He additionally led the Huntington’s decade-long effort to construct the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston’s South End in 2004, establishing an important artistic hub for Boston’s cultural neighborhood which gives amenities and providers to dozens of native performing arts organizations.
Maso is among the longest-serving executives in American theatre at this time because the Huntington’s authentic and solely managing director. Under his management, the Huntington has grown from an in-house division at Boston University to the town’s flagship nonprofit theatre with a full-time workers of 125 folks. Maso has collaborated with 4 inventive administrators to supply over 260 productions and has served as a trusted mentor and advisor to lots of of arts directors in Boston and throughout the nation.
Maso at present serves on the Boston Cultural Planning Steering Committee and beforehand served as a member of the board for ArtsBoston, Theatre Communications Group, and StageSource. He additionally beforehand served as a panel chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts and was the president of the League of Resident Theatres from 1997 to 2005.
“It has been a profound honor and deep privilege to serve as the Huntington’s managing director for over 40 years,” Maso stated in a press release. “I can’t overstate how much pleasure I have derived from working with so many to bring such unadulterated joy, such compassion and understanding, to so many for all these years. I’m grateful to the thousands of dedicated artists, staff members, colleagues, and board members who have enriched my life, and to the theatre lovers and generous donors who have sustained the Huntington, as together we have built the Huntington and the broader cultural community we love.”
Maso’s new advisory function will contain particular initiatives and continued fundraising and planning for the second part of the Huntington’s renovation and enlargement.
The Huntington Theatre Company strives to be Boston’s theatrical commons and main skilled theatre firm. Committed to welcoming broad and numerous audiences, the Huntington goals to supply life-changing alternatives for college students by means of its strong schooling and neighborhood packages, and is a nationwide chief within the growth of playwrights and new performs. It can also be the host group for a multi-year residency on the Black theatre firm the Front Porch Arts Collective. As of 2021, the theatre’s finances was roughly $14.5 million.
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