{"id":10820,"date":"2022-11-02T03:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/02\/american-theatre-cody-estle-to-step-down-from-raven-theatre\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T03:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T03:14:25","slug":"american-theatre-cody-estle-to-step-down-from-raven-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/02\/american-theatre-cody-estle-to-step-down-from-raven-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN THEATRE | Cody Estle to Step Down From Raven Theatre\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>CHICAGO:<\/strong> Next month <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codyestle.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cody Estle<\/a> will step down as inventive director of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raventheatre.com\" target=\"_blank\">Raven Theatre<\/a> to turn into inventive director of Milwaukee\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nextact.org\" target=\"_blank\">Next Act Theatre<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Estle labored with Raven Theatre for 14 years, first as affiliate inventive director, then inventive director starting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantheatre.org\/2017\/11\/14\/raven-theatre-names-cody-estle-artistic-dircetor\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"42134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2017<\/a>. As inventive director, Estle oversaw the corporate\u2019s transition from non-Equity to Equity standing, the commissioning of seven new performs, the reworking of Raven\u2019s two theatre areas and a number of other different accomplishments. Under his management, the corporate acquired 28 Jeff Award nominations and 6 Jeff Award wins for steering productions reminiscent of <em>The Luckiest<\/em> (2022 Jeff Award nominee for Best Production and Best Director), <em>How I Learned to Drive,<\/em> <em>The Gentleman Caller <\/em>(2019 Jeff Award successful new play) and a number of other extra. Recently Estle was named one among <em>NewCity\u2019s <\/em>\u201cFifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago.\u201d He is a member of SDC, serves on the board of administrators of the League of Chicago Theatres. Estle holds a level from Columbia College Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud of what we have achieved together at Raven Theatre during my time as artistic director,\u201d stated Estle in an announcement. \u201cRaven has shaped who I am, and I\u2019m very grateful for my time here. I look forward to seeing the theatre continue to soar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are, of course, saddened that Cody is leaving Raven Theatre,\u201d stated board president Stephen Johnson in an announcement. \u201cHis impact during his 14 years with the theatre has been immense, both artistically and operationally. The theatre would not be where it is without his faithful and steadfast efforts. We will miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The theatre will quickly start a search course of to satisfy their inventive director place. More info shall be introduced within the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raven Theatre\u2019s mission is to inform the tales of right now and the previous<em> <\/em>that join us to our cultural panorama. The theatre has been a cultural cornerstone on the north aspect of Chicago for 39 years and counting. As of 2021, the theatre\u2019s price range was roughly $404,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"awac-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"awac widget text-2\">\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Support American Theatre: a simply and thriving theatre ecology begins with info for all. Please be part of us on this mission by making a donation to our writer, Theatre Communications Group. When you assist American Theatre journal and TCG, you assist an extended legacy of high quality nonprofit arts journalism. Click<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcg.org\/AboutUs\/DonateNow.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">right here<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0to make your totally tax-deductible donation right now!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] CHICAGO: Next month Cody Estle will step down as inventive director of Raven Theatre to turn into inventive director of Milwaukee\u2019s Next Act Theatre.\u00a0 Estle labored with Raven Theatre for 14 years, first as affiliate inventive director, then inventive director starting in 2017. As inventive director, Estle oversaw the corporate\u2019s transition from non-Equity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-theatre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}