Livia Genise Leaves Post as Camelot Theatre's Artistic Director Due to Board's Actions

According to Mail Tribune, Camelot Theatre's artistic director Livia Genise has quit her post due to the theatre's board of directors cancelling the production of CHESS Genise had been planning for this September.

The article quoted Genise as saying, "The board said I could do 'Chess,' and later I was told, 'We're not going to do it...I told them if they canceled it, I'd take it as a vote of no confidence."

The theatre's executive director, Dann Hauser, said that the board cut the production not because of Genise's direction, but because of "the commercial reality of running a theater." The theatre reportedly lost about $100,000 in 2015 from their productions of "The Last Five Years," "Sunset Boulevard," and "The Manchurian Candidate." Hauser said that the risk in doing "Chess" is too great: if they suffer another loss, they may lose the theatre.

Genise is moving on, saying she's "gone through the seven stages of grief." She has stated that she plans to audition for stage roles in Portland and Seattle.

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