The Old Globe Holds Annual Meeting, Elects New Board Members

The Old Globe's Annual Meeting was held on Monday, February 13, on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.

After a reception on the Copley Plaza, Old Globe Board Chair Vicki L. Zeiger welcomed the Board of Directors and guests and announced the newly elected Board and Executive Committee members. Globe senior staff members presented highlights of the 2016 fiscal year, and Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein spoke about the artistic future of the Globe and its place in the San Diego community. The meeting was followed by a dessert reception for the Board of Directors, Ambassadors, and Founders Level Donors on Copley Plaza.

It was announced that the 2017 Board of Directors Executive Committee will consist of Zeiger (Chair), Nicole A. Clay (Incoming Chair), Donald L. Cohn (Past Chair, Ex Officio), Elaine Bennett Darwin (Past Chair, Ex Officio), Harold W. Fuson, Jr. (Past Chair, Ex Officio), Kathryn Hattox (Past Chair, Ex Officio), Peter J. Cooper (Vice Chair, Arts Engagement), Ann Davies (Vice Chair, Nominating), Paula Powers (Secretary), Anthony S. Thornley (Treasurer), Stephen P. Embry (Audit Chair), Pamela A. Farr, Jean Shekhter, Ann Steck (Finance Chair), Karen Tanz (Development Chair), Sheryl White, and Karin Winner.

Zeiger also announced that the following candidates identified by the Globe's Nominating Committee were formally elected to serve three-year terms on the Board of Directors: Karen L. Sedgwick, Michael Taylor, and Sheryl White. Harvey P. White was named an Emeritus Director, as was Conrad Prebys, in memoriam, who passed away on July 24, 2016. Prebys was remembered and celebrated for his incredible and longtime support of the Globe, the legacy of which continues through the name of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.

Current Board members who will begin new consecutive three-year terms in 2017 include Nicole A. Clay, Valerie S. Cooper, Elaine Bennett Darwin, Pamela A. Farr, Robert Foxworth, Harold W. Fuson, Jr., Jack Galloway, Patricia A. Hodgkin, Daphne H. Jameson, Keven Lippert, Paula Powers, Jean Shekhter, Ann Steck, Karen Tanz, Evelyn Mack Truitt, Karin Winner, and Vicki L. Zeiger.

Board members Pamela Cesak, Joseph J. Cohen, Karen Fox, Victor P. Gálvez, Gloria Rasmussen, Crystal Sargent, Stacey LeVasseur Vasquez, and Donald J. Wilkins, whose terms of service concluded at the end of 2016, were honored for their outstanding commitment to The Old Globe.

The Old Globe's Board of Directors also includes Mary Beth Adderley, Terry Atkinson, Stephanie R. Bulger, Ph.D., George S. Davis, Angela DeCaro (Globe Guilders President, Ex Officio), Silvija Devine, Jo Ann Kilty, Sheila Lipinsky, David J. Ohanian, Thomas Melody, Sandra Redman, Sue Sanderson, Steven J. Stuckey, Dean H. Thompson, Rhona Thompson, Debra Turner, Jordine Von Wantoch, Pamela J. Wagner, Reneé Wailes, and Lynne Wheeler.

The Tony Award-winning Old Globe is one of the country's leading professional regional theatres and has stood as San Diego's flagship arts institution for over 80 years. Under the leadership of Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 15 productions of classic, contemporary, and new works on its three Balboa Park stages: the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the 600-seat Old Globe Theatre and the 250-seat Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, both part of The Old Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, and the 605-seat outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, home of its internationally renowned Shakespeare Festival. More than 250,000 people attend Globe productions annually and participate in the theatre's artistic and arts engagement programs. Numerous world premieres such as the 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Bright Star, Allegiance, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and the annual holiday musical Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to enjoy highly successful runs on Broadway and at regional theatres across the country.

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