Angela Lee Gieras. (Photograph by Tom Styrkowicz/53Tom)
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Shakespeare Theatre Firm (STC) has introduced that Angela Lee Gieras would be the firm’s new government director. Gieras comes from Kansas Metropolis Repertory Theatre (KCRep), the place she has served as government director since 2013. She’s going to be part of STC on Sept. 13, and lead the Tony-winning theatre alongside inventive director Simon Godwin. Gieras replaces interim government director Susie Medak, who stepped in after the departure of longtime chief Chris Jennings in 2023 and continued within the put up after the short-lived tenure of a beforehand named substitute, Rebecca Ende Lichtenberg, who left the put up after only a month earlier this 12 months.
“Angela involves STC with an in depth background in arts management and financial duty,” mentioned Anita Antenucci, chair of STC’s board of administrators, in a press release. “We’ve been very impressed along with her observe document of theatre administration and supporting the event of expertise and organizational power throughout quite a few arts organizations. We’re excited so as to add her expert management, in partnership with Simon Godwin, to hold on STC’s mission and ambition.”
“I’m delighted that Angela is coming to Washington to assist lead STC,” mentioned Godwin in a press release. “Her lengthy work alongside KCRep inventive director Stuart Carden is an unbelievable mannequin of co-leadership and profitable steering. I stay up for working facet by facet for the subsequent stage of STC’s progress.”
As KCRep’s Government Director for 11 years, Ms. Gieras partnered with inventive management overseeing a number of important institutional successes, together with navigating via the pandemic, delivering break-even or higher monetary outcomes, rising single tickets and fundraising; guiding the corporate via a profitable marketing campaign and renovation of its landmark Spencer Theatre; rebranding the group; crafting a five-year $5 million marketing campaign that elevated funding in audiences, new works, and schooling; launching a new-works pageant and free group tour; and rising operational fundraising by 70 p.c and setting quite a few single ticket gross sales data.
Devoted to exploring and increasing greatest practices in nonprofit administration and management, Gieras based Impressed Arts Administration, LLC, and launched a research of co-leadership in theatres nationwide. She has consulted or labored with many regional theatres, together with American Conservatory Theater, Area Stage, Dallas Theater Middle, the Guthrie, Portland Middle Stage, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Firm. She serves on the board and as treasurer of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the theatre service group and the writer of American Theatre, and is a previous board member and co-chair of the nominating and EDI committee of League of Resident Theatres (LORT).
“I’m impressed and humbled to hitch Shakespeare Theatre Firm and associate with Simon Godwin as government director,” mentioned Gieras in a press release. “Simon’s audacious imaginative and prescient, and his expertise at translating a traditional for a contemporary viewers via his route, captivated me. As an skilled in management improvement, fundraising, and monetary administration, I stay up for collaborating with STC’s passionate and esteemed board and workers to proceed to deepen the influence of traditional and up to date performs.”
Along with assuming the fiscal duty for STC, Ms. Gieras will oversee the theatre’s continued dedication to studying and group engagement. The Arts Consulting Group led the expansive nationwide seek for STC’s government director.
Based in 1986, Shakespeare Theatre Firm goals to create world-class Shakespeare productions and modern up to date work, addressing essentially the most pressing questions with scale and audacity. As of 2023, the theatre’s price range was round $19.2 million.
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