Genée Coreno. (Picture by David Dashiell.)
LENOX, MASS.: WAM Theatre has named Genée Coreno their new inventive director. Coreno succeeds co-founding producing inventive director Kristen van Ginhoven.
“After a complete nationwide search, we’re past excited to have Genée Coreno be part of us as WAM’s new inventive director,” WAM Theatre board of trustees president Toni Buckley mentioned in a press release. “Genée is a cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary theatre artist and producer with a life-long dedication to activism and a deep connection to our mission of gender equality. We’re thrilled she’s making WAM her residence.”
Coreno is a director and humanities administrator with over a decade {of professional} expertise. She just lately spent over 4 years in improvement and operations with the maternal well being group Each Mom Counts. She beforehand served as an organization supervisor on the Public Theater and Large Dance Theater and was an inventive affiliate at Ripe Time. She labored in advertising at Third Rail Initiatives and based the theatre firm Fringe and Fur. Coreno holds an MA in efficiency research from New York College and a BA in drama from SUNY Buy.
“It’s my honor to be the following inventive director of WAM Theatre,” Coreno mentioned in a press release. “WAM was based with the purpose to ask artists and audiences to finish the oppression of women and girls — inspiring a fairer and freer world by pertinent theatremaking and storytelling. As WAM’s subsequent inventive director, I stay up for persevering with Kristen’s imaginative and prescient and co-generating an ecosystem the place daring, rigorous, women-centered work will flourish.”
“I couldn’t be extra thrilled to move the baton to Genée as WAM’s subsequent inventive director,” van Ginhoven mentioned in a press release. “I’m extremely excited for the recent power and imaginative and prescient Genée will contribute to WAM and I stay up for welcoming her and her household to the Berkshires.”
Buckley led the seek for van Ginhoven’s substitute together with different board members, managing director Molly Merrihew, and affiliate inventive director Talya Kingston. Coreno involves WAM as they put together to rejoice their fifteenth season.
WAM Theatre is an expert theatre firm based mostly in Berkshire County, Mass., that operates on the intersection of arts and activism. Now celebrating its fifteenth anniversary season, WAM creates theatre for gender fairness and has a imaginative and prescient of theatre as philanthropy. As of 2022, the theatre had a price range of roughly $490,000.
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