Stories in both the Hendersonville Lightning and the Times-News on new hires at the Flat Rock Playhouse.
From the HL:
The Flat Rock Playhouse has hired a theater manager from Dallas as managing director of the Playhouse, giving her responsibility for budget development and administration, personnel, contract negotiations, marketing and strategic development.
Hillary Hart, a 2000 graduate of the UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, has been with the Dallas Theater Center since 2006. In that job she was responsible for budgeting and strategic planning, contract negotiations, union relations, intellectual properties, vendor relations, personnel and development, said Playhouse president Bill McKibbin, who announced Hart's hiring on Saturday.
The hiring of a general manager with a background in financial management was a key demand of donors who helped the Playhouse survive a financial crisis last year....
McKibbin, the Playhouse president, described the addition of Hart as a structural change that matches the way other regional theaters are managed. It's a departure from the long history of the official state theater of North Carolina, which was led creatively and managed financially for 56 years by founder Robroy Farquhar followed by his son, Robin.
"With this hire, the Flat Rock Playhouse will be adopting the management structure that most non-profit theaters of our size have used for decades," McKibbin said in a news release. The model is made up of equal administrators — the artistic director and a managing director — both directly accountable to the Board of Trustees, he said.
"This is a long-term structural change designed to get us fully up-to-date on today's best practices in non-profit theater management," he added....
Stephen Terry, a lighting designer from San Diego who has worked in Playhouse shows in the past, has come on board as fulltime production manager, filling the role that Billy Munoz had held. Terry announced his new job in a Facebook posting....
Read it all, and
from the Times-News:
After interviewing more than 40 applicants, Flat Rock Playhouse has hired the former general manager of the Dallas Theater Center in Texas as its new managing director.
Hillary Hart, a 2000 graduate of the University of North Carolina's School of the Arts, will start work April 2. She will report to the Playhouse's board of trustees directly and work collaboratively with Artistic Director Vincent Marini.
Her primary responsibilities will be financial management of the nonprofit theater, said Board Chairman Bill McKibbin, including budget development and administration, personnel, contract negotiations, marketing, strategic planning and daily operations of YouTheatre.
McKibbin said having two equal administrators — one managing, one artistic — who are both accountable to the board was a structural change that brings the Playhouse more in line with what other nonprofit theaters of its size have done for decades....
Hart said the Playhouse's reputation as an “organization with deep roots in the community” was also a draw. She and her husband have a 5-year-old son who is starting kindergarten, so the couple was also looking for a family-friendly area in the mountains to call home, she said....
While Hart's resume was strong on the financial management side, McKibbin said her well-rounded theater background made her an even more impressive candidate. Before joining DTC in 2006, Hart worked as production manager for the renowned Alvin Ailey II dance company and has served, at various times, as a stage hand, writer and director....
Read it all.
No comments:
Post a Comment