SHARON, CONN.: The Sharon Playhouse has crammed a number of positions on its management crew. The Playhouse has named Carl Andress their new inventive director, Rodney Christensen their new managing director, and Michael Kevin Baldwin their new affiliate inventive director and director of training.
“From the beginning, the Playhouse has been about overlapping: professional actors and aspiring thespians with local talent, theatre with education, beloved classics with newer works,” stated Sharon Playhouse Board president Emily Soell in an announcement. “This new leadership team is a perfect reflection of who we are as a theatre.”
The newly appointed arts directors will work in a brand new three-pronged mannequin of management.
Andress is a theatre and movie director and producer who has labored all through New York and in regional theatres. He was the co-recipient of Primary Stages’s 2022 Einhorn Mentorship Award. In addition to his work directing performs and movies, Andress labored on the New York live performance premieres of the musicals The Visit, A Wonderful Life, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, and Valley of the Dolls to learn the Entertainment Community Fund.
Christensen beforehand served because the managing director at Southgate Education, a New York-based arts training firm. He additionally spent eight seasons at Canada’s Shaw Festival Theatre, the place he served as each the senior training supervisor and the senior supervisor of viewers gross sales and companies. The former government director and director of training at TADA! Youth Theater, Christensen has additionally held management positions with the Warner Theatre and toured with the worldwide training program Up With People.
Baldwin started performing with the Sharon Playhouse when he was 10 years previous, and has since labored as a trainer, director, and playwright on the theatre. As the Playhouse’s director of training, Baldwin has initiated in-school performing arts residencies at a number of colleges within the Sharon space. Baldwin co-created and directed the play #BraveSpace, which premiered on the New York University Steinhardt School’s Forum on Ethnodrama. He served as a keynote speaker for the Educational Theatre Association’s “Theatre in Our Schools” initiative. He is a graduate of Skidmore College and the City College of New York.
The mission of the Sharon Playhouse is to entertain the group of Northwest Connecticut and past, to function a educating theatre, and to encourage inspiring actors and artists of all ages to develop their craft. As of its 2020 tax submitting, the theatre’s price range was round $532,000.
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