Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, announces the addition of four new Board Members, twenty-five Artistic Associates, and the launch of a new-play development program with Ben Kingsland's world premiere adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities.
"We're reinvigorating Olney Theatre Center in 2015," said Olney Theatre Center Artistic Director
Jason Loewith. "We're excited to welcome four new professionals to the Board, create a new Artistic Associate program for our favorite collaborators, and renew our commitment to new works. I'm very excited about what lies ahead for this company's next chapter."
"The breadth of experience on our board and the gifted artists now formally connected to Olney Theatre is really inspiring," said Olney Theatre Center Managing Director Debbie Ellinghaus. "These partnerships will help us to boldly enter Olney's next era. I'm looking forward to seeing our audiences connect with the work that will come out of these invigorating efforts."
The company's new Board members bring a range of skills to the company, including major non-profit management, employment law, statistical survey analysis, and healthcare systems. They are: Clifford Johnson (formerly of the CDC),
Stephen Klein (former Managing Director of the Pittsburgh Public Playhouse and Executive Director of the Kentucky Center for the Arts),
Linda Rosenzweig (Senior Benefits Counsel to Keightley & Asher LLP), and Rossana Salvadori (AVP for Network Integration at UnitedHealth Group). Olney Theatre Center's Board members serve three-year terms.
The theater's team of Artistic Associates will advise the theater on artistic matters, participate in productions at salary and fee levels well above minimum rates, and be the engine for the company's new work activities. That work begins this spring with a developmental workshop of
Mr. Kingsland's adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities, which will tour the country beginning in October 2015 with the National Players, the nation's oldest classical touring company and the heart of Olney Theatre Center's educational efforts. Artistic Associates serve two-year terms.
The theater's Artistic Associates are actors
Evan Casey, Julie-Ann Elliott,
Rick Foucheux,
Helen Hedman,
Valerie Leonard,
Susan Lynskey,
Donna Migliaccio,
Paul Morella, Jon Hudson Odom,
Tracy Lynn Olivera,
Michael Russotto,
Bobby Smith, and Stephen
Gregory Smith; directors
John Going,
Eleanor Holdridge, and
Mark Waldrop; choreographers
Michael Bobbitt and
Tara Jeanne Vallee; designers Colin K. Bills,
James Fouchard, Misha Kachman, Pei Lee, Milagros Ponce de Leon, and Ivania Stack; and stage manager Josiane M. Lemieux.
The National Players' 67th Tour will launch with
Mr. Kingsland's adaptation of Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities, which carries special weight in today's economic climate. The theater's new team of Artistic Associates will collaborate with National Players Artistic Director Jason King Jones and the cast of National Players Tour 66 to develop the adaptation in a spring workshop; Tour 67 will take the script on the road to over one hundred venues across the United States beginning in the fall of 2015. Local playwright Ben Kingsland is also an alumnus of the National Players, having toured the country with Tour 59.
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