Tina Fallon is the Dramatists Guild's New Executive Director of Creative Affairs

The Dramatists Guild of America is pleased to announce Tina Fallon as its new Executive Director of Creative Affairs. She succeeds Gary Garrison, who recently retired from the position after a ten-year tenure.

Garrison notes, "Tina is the perfect person to step in to the job of ED of Creative Affairs. In the short time I've known her, I can see already that she'll take a lot of the programs we created when I came in and elevate them to a place of real importance, not only to the Guild as an institution, but to each and every member who is the foundation of the Guild. She's incredibly insightful, fun, warm, gracious, forward-thinking, recognizes the often uphill challenges for writers and has a genuine desire to understand and better the day-to-day lives of dramatists everywhere."

Guild President Doug Wright said, "It's a bittersweet time at the Guild; we're saying a very fond and heartfelt "farewell" to Gary Garrison as our exemplary Executive Director of Creative Affairs. In the same breath, we are very pleased to welcome the dynamic, inventive Tina Fallon to his post. Tina promises to continue Gary's remarkable work, and make thrilling new contributions to better the lives and work of Dramatists Guild members."

Fallon is a New York-based producer, arts advocate, and the founding producer of The 24 Hour Plays. Since 1995, Ms. Fallon and The 24 Hour Company have produced The 24 Hour Plays and The 24 Hour Musicals, often as charity benefits for The Old Vic, Atlantic Theater Company, Urban Arts Partnership, Dublin Youth Theatre, The Orchard Project, The William Inge Festival, and Finland's Teatterifestivaali Lainsuojattomat, among others. The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway is now in its sixteenth year.

As a young producer in Los Angeles, Ms. Fallon worked with Theatre 40, FreightTrain Shakespeare, and the L.A. Rep. She returned to New York and co-founded Crux Productions. As a director, Ms. Fallon led the first workshop production of Will Eno's Tragedy: a tragedy and the world premiere of Linell Ajello's Lonely Comet at the Ohio Theater's Ice Factory Festival. She produced independent film, television, and commercials. As a scenic carpenter, technical director and production manager, she spent years in the trenches-sometimes literally off and off-off-Broadway, working for the Atlantic, Primary Stages, WPA, New Georges, the Kitchen, La MaMa, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, the Theatorium, Galapagos Art Space and more.

In London, Ms. Fallon co-created The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic/New Voices, an education and early career development program for emerging artists. Filmmaker Chris Terrill chronicled the process in a 2005 documentary, Extreme Theatre.

She teamed with The New School for Drama to bring the program to New York; through its outreach to high schools, conservatories, colleges and universities, the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals now reaches thousands of students each year. Ms. Fallon has led workshops for Q-teatteri, Teatteri Takomo and Helsinki Theatre Academy in Finland, Old Vic/New Voices in London, and Urban Arts Partnership in New York.

Fallon is on the advisory boards of The New School for Drama and Cora Dance. She has been a presenter at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and The Association for Theatre in Higher Education, a judge for the KCACTF Irene Ryan Awards, and a panelist for The Kevin Spacey Foundation Artists of Choice.

She was received a Lilly Award for Grace Under Pressure in 2011, and was named one of New York Moves Power Women of 2005. Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, Paper, and American Theatre. She is a graduate of Lang College and lives with her family in Brooklyn and Greenport.