B'bye Bay Area: Kent Nicholson's new Horizons

November 25, 10:27 AMSF Theater ExaminerChad Jones

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San Francisco-based director Kent
Nichoslon is heading east. He's
exiting his post as director of new
works with TheatreWorks to become
the director of musical theater
develoment at Playwrights Horizons
in New York. 

Mountain View's TheatreWorks has announced that Kent Nicholson will be leaving his post as director of new works to become the director of musical theatre development at Playwrights Horizons in New York.

He will be transitioning into the position as a job share until March of 2009, where he is replacing the recently departed Christie Evangalisto. His position there was cemented by the Mellon Foundation’s recent $2 million grant to Playwrights Horizons to establish collaborations with regional theatres to develop new musicals, an area in which Nicholson has excelled for TheatreWorks, where he has led the charge, establishing the New Works Festival and Writers Retreat programs as sources for the development of works of national importance. 

TheatreWorks will launch a national search to replace Nicholson, with his assistance in seeking and establishing his replacement over the next few months.

TheatreWorks Artistic Director Robert Kelley said of the change: “TheatreWorks is a better theater company because of the contributions of Kent Nicholson. He has done a tremendous job in establishing and nurturing programs at our company that have attracted some of the most important voices in theatre and given them a place to explore new material. We wish him nothing but the best in his future endeavors.”

Nicholson added: “This is in many ways a natural transition point. My replacement at TheatreWorks will be able to take ownership of an expanded New Works Festival in the spring of 2009 and plans that are afoot for an even larger Festival next season, and bring his or her own ideas to this program’s growth.”