McCarter Theatre Center Names Adam Immerwahr Associate Artistic Director

McCarter Theatre Center has announced the appointment of Adam Immerwahr as Associate Artistic Director. Immerwahr, a longtime McCarter staff member with a thriving directorial career, will support McCarter's Artistic Director, Emily Mann, in the planning and execution of the theater's artistic programming. His duties will also include directing for McCarter Theater's main stage, cultivating new works and identifying emerging artists, having primary responsibility for the day-to-day artistic oversight of McCarter's dramatic productions, and coordinating the selection and hiring of freelance artistic personnel.

In announcing his appointment, Ms. Mann said, "I fiercely believe that Adam stands among the next generation of great American theater leaders. I am very happy that our collaboration will continue to prosper in this new role, and it's exciting to name him as Associate Artistic Director."

"I am both thrilled and honored to be starting in this new position at McCarter Theater and to have a role that combines my dual careers of director and producer, " said Immerwahr. "It is my hope that under Emily's artistic leadership, the McCarter staff and I can build upon the foundation that has made McCarter the theater that is today, creating new initiatives and programs to grow the next generation of McCarter's audiences, artists, and staff."

Adam Immerwahr has worked at McCarter since 2005, most recently as Associate Producer. As a senior member of the artistic staff, he will work closely with playwrights and directors in development and production, participate in season planning, meet with funders, represent McCarter at local community events and national conferences, and collaborate with all departments of one of the nation's premier theater companies. For several years he has served as line producer of McCarter's new play development activities enjoying collaborations with playwrights including Lydia Diamond, Christopher Durang, Sarah Treem, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Danai Gurira, and Will Power; and directors Sam Buntrock, Rebecca Taichman, Lisa Peterson, Emily Mann, and Nicholas Martin. Adam produced McCarter's developmental readings of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; he was also a member of the producing team of the world premiere production at McCarter (starring David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver), which transferred to Lincoln Center Theater and eventually to Broadway, where it won this year's Tony Award for Best New Play. He served as Associate Director for McCarter's production of Danai Gurira's The Convert, and in that capacity he oversaw the transfer of the production to Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group.

For Trenton-based Passage Theatre, Adam serves as Resident Director. His world premiere credits for Passage Theatre include Blood: A Comedy and Slippery As Sin, both written by David Lee White; Blessed Are by Jessica Bedford;Roundelay by R.N. Sandberg; Trenton Lights, created by David Lee White and June Ballinger; and Love and Communications by Jim Christy, Jr. For his work at Passage Theatre, Adam was the recipient of the 2010 New Jersey Theatre Alliance Applause Award. Adam also serves as Artistic Director of On Stage, where he leads an ensemble of Mercer County (NJ) older adults (in their 60's-90's) who collect and perform the stories of their community. Under Adam's leadership, the group has developed four original scripts which are performed in repertory.

As a freelance director, Adam's work has been seen Off-Broadway and at theaters throughout the country. He was a 2008 recipient of the Drama League Directing Fellowship, and an alumnus of the Luna Stage Directors Lab. He has directed world premieres for Summer Play Festival (Off-Broadway at The Public and at Theater Row), Ensemble Studio Theatre, Premiere Stages, Hangar Theatre's Wedge, Theater Masters (in both Aspen and NYC), and others. His work has also been seen at Westminster Choir College, the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Artists' Collective, Playwrights' Theatre of New Jersey, Princeton Summer Theater, Luna Stage, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Brown University.

Adam has served as a voter for Philadelphia's Barrymore Awards, a Production Coordination for Performance Studies International, an Assistant Producer at the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA New Plays Festival, and a consultant for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. He has taught as a guest artist for many local colleges, including Princeton University, Kean University, Rider University, and Arcadia University.

A Philadelphia-area native, Adam is a graduate of Brown University. His upcoming directorial projects include the African premiere of The Convert in Harare, Zimbabwe in November 2013, and a revival of William Mastrosimone's Tamer of Horses at Passage Theatre in April, 2014.

Photo Credit: Shannon Cameron

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