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Bartlett Sher Extends as Artistic Director of Intiman Theatre through the End of the 2010 Production Season
Intiman Theatre Board President Kim A. Anderson announces that Bartlett Sher has extended as Artistic Director through the end of the 2010 production season. Sher was appointed to the position in November 1999 and currently serves as both Intiman’s Artistic Director and Resident Director at Lincoln Center Theater in New York. Sher will focus on helping to execute a multi-year succession plan for Intiman’s artistic leadership, including working with his successor over the next eighteen months. Full details will be announced in June 2009.
Sher currently has two LCT productions running simultaneously on Broadway: August Wilson’s Joe’s Turner’s Come and Gone, for which he has received a 2009 Tony Award nomination, and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, for which he won the 2008 Tony Award.
“The entire Intiman Board celebrates Bart’s Tony nomination, as well as all his success directing theatre and opera in New York and internationally,” said Anderson. “For more than a year, Bart has been in conversation with our Board leadership about his ongoing role in supporting Intiman’s stability and continued growth. We have developed a multi-year plan for an artistic leadership transition and are looking forward to announcing full details about this next month. Although these are challenging times for everyone, we are excited to move into the future with a team that will include Bart and his eventual successor, as well as Managing Director Brian Colburn and Associate Director Sheila Daniels.”
In order for Sher to focus on Intiman’s future — including the succession plan, a new long-range plan and fundraising — Intiman will bring in the Theatre for a New Audience production of Othello, directed by Arin Arbus, to run on the same dates as Sher’s previously announced staging of the play. Othello will begin previews on Thursday, July 2 and have its press opening on Wednesday, July 8 at 7:30 pm.
“Not directing Othello was a difficult decision for me to make,” said Sher. “Ultimately, however, the Board and I decided that it will serve Intiman most effectively for me to focus on our succession plan while giving our audiences the chance to see this production, which is one of the best-received stagings of a Shakespeare play in the last decade. Intiman has a long history of supporting younger directors and exciting new talent like Arin Arbus, and I am glad to give her this opportunity to go ever more deeply in her investigation into the play, much as we did by bringing Crime and Punishment, directed by my associate Sheila Daniels, from the Seattle fringe to Intiman earlier this season.”
“Additionally,” Sher continued, “I have a long and valued relationship with Jeffrey Horowitz, Theatre for a New Audience’s Artistic Director. Jeffrey invited me to stage my production of Cymbeline for Theatre for a New Audience at the Royal Shakespeare Company and then in New York. This is a great opportunity for Intiman to collaborate with the company and create a model for other partnerships we might wish to pursue in the future — something that is particularly important in this economic environment.”
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