Preston Whiteway to Remain with Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

Preston Whiteway will continue as executive director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for three more years, Variety reports.  Whiteway recently renewed his contract with the Center. 

Whiteway has been the O'Neill's executive director since 2007; he was previously general manager beginning in 2004.

The O'Neill, which is located in Waterford, Connecticut, won the 2010 Tony Award for Regional Theater and recently finished its forty-sixth summer season.  The O'Neill hosts the National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theatre Conference, events which have produced such works as AVENUE Q, IN THE HEIGHTS, and various plays by August Wilson, Variety reports.

The O'Neill says of Whiteway, "Preston Whiteway was appointed Executive Director in January 2007, after serving the O'Neill as General Manager since 2004, and now leads the venerable and vital institution and its many national programs into the future. Under his leadership, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center was awarded the 2010 Regional Theater Tony Award. Mr. Whiteway joined the O'Neill upon graduating from Duke University, where he received his BA in Economics. While at Duke, Mr. Whiteway served as the Chair of Broadway at Duke, leading and managing the major arts presenting organization, bringing national touring Broadway shows to the Durham, NC campus. Mr. Whiteway also worked with National Playwrights Conference Artistic Director, Wendy C. Goldberg, at Washington, DC's Arena Stage. Since coming to the O'Neill, he has served on panels at Duke University Theater Communications Group and has been profiled in the New York Times and the Hartford Courant, and serves as a Trustee of the Eastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce. A native of Virginia, Preston now lives in New London, Connecticut."

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