{"id":4070,"date":"2022-10-22T03:43:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T03:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/22\/american-theatre-michelle-preston-to-step-down-from-siti-as-company-sunsets\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T03:43:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T03:43:33","slug":"american-theatre-michelle-preston-to-step-down-from-siti-as-company-sunsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/22\/american-theatre-michelle-preston-to-step-down-from-siti-as-company-sunsets\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN THEATRE | Michelle Preston to Step Down From SITI as Company Sunsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK CITY:<\/strong> Michelle Preston has introduced that she is going to resign from her function as govt director of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/siti.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/siti.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SITI Company<\/a> after 10 years of service to grow to be the manager director of the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limon.nyc\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.limon.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Jos\u00e9 Lim\u00f3n Dance Foundation<\/a> starting Nov. 1. Her departure comes because the venerable efficiency and coaching firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantheatre.org\/2020\/10\/08\/siti-company-announces-final-season-legacy-plan\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"55478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winds up its producing operations after 30 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful for Michelle\u2019s vision and integrity in her years of service to SITI,\u201d stated SITI board chair Jessica Hanna in a press release. \u201cWe are excited for Jos\u00e9 Lim\u00f3n Dance Foundation\u2014they have a talented, thoughtful, and determined arts leader coming on board.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While serving as SITI Company\u2019s govt director, Preston helped produce 9 world premieres, 17 home and worldwide excursions,\u00a0and 5 New York City seasons. Preston oversaw SITI\u2019s education schemes, which welcomed 4 conservatory cohorts and produced eight <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/siti.org\/training\/skidmore-summer-intensive\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/siti.org\/training\/skidmore-summer-intensive\/\" target=\"_blank\">SITI Summer Intensive Workshops<\/a> with Skidmore College. Preston guided SITI firm by way of the pandemic and tapped into the federal government funding alternatives out there to the theatre for the final two years.<\/p>\n<p>Preston was a key contributor to SITI\u2019s multi-year strategic planning efforts and SITI\u2019s Legacy Plan, which envisioned a transition for the group after 30 years of artistry. Preston\u2019s departure has been coordinated with the tip of\u00a0SITI\u00a0Company\u2019s ensemble and producing operations, which can occur on Dec. 31. Preston can be succeeded by Megan E. Carter, SITI\u2019s producing director, who will oversee the corporate\u2019s last two months of manufacturing actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince becoming our executive director, Michelle has led SITI Company with an unequaled innovative brilliance,\u201d stated SITI co-artistic director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantheatre.org\/2001\/01\/01\/balancing-acts\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"34408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne Bogart<\/a> in a press release. \u201cShe maneuvered us wisely and robustly through many challenges and obstacles while keeping the momentum of growth, through effective budgeting, healthy board development, ongoing fundraising, and strategic planning. In particular, during the pandemic, she kept the company afloat, the actors on salary, and the wheels turning for all of our plans, which included exciting final productions, an archive, and a structure to ensure that SITI would continue to exert a positive impact on the field into the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has truly been a privilege to spend the last 10 years learning from this amazing group of artists who champion rigor and innovation in everything they do,\u201d stated Preston in a press release. \u201cI am so grateful for the opportunity to work alongside the ensemble, the board, and the staff to plot a course for the future and ensure that generations of artists will be able to access the legacy of SITI Company.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SITI Company (The Saratoga International Theater Institute) was based in 1992 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantheatre.org\/2017\/08\/29\/trans-pacific-partnership\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"39372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tadashi Suzuki, Anne Bogart<\/a>, and a bunch of like-minded artists with a mission to revitalize and redefine up to date theatre within the United States by way of worldwide cultural change, creation of recent work, and the coaching of theatre artists. 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