Nicole A. Watson. (Picture by Catalin Media.)
MINNEAPOLIS: Playwrights’ Heart (PWC) has named Nicole A. Watson their new producing creative director. Watson will take over on April 1 as outgoing producing creative director Jeremy B. Cohen heads to the Ojai Playwrights’ Convention.
“Given the richness and variety of her creative expertise, demonstrated ardour for brand spanking new work, and deep dedication to listening and group constructing, Nicole is completely the fitting chief to information the Heart into its thrilling new chapter,” PWC board chair Harrison David Rivers mentioned in a press release.
Watson presently serves because the affiliate creative director on the McCarter Theatre Heart. She beforehand lived in Minneapolis when her husband, Tim J. Lord, was a 2017-18 Jerome Fellow at PWC. Final season, she returned to the Twin Cities to direct Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage on the Guthrie Theater. Watson beforehand served because the affiliate creative director at Spherical Home Theatre, and he or she produced the Adrienne Kennedy Pageant at each Spherical Home and the McCarter. She launched the Toni Morrison Undertaking on the McCarter and was additionally a co-curator on the digital new play catalog Bard on the Gate with Paula Vogel. Watson has co-led the Kennedy Heart Directing Intensive since 2020 and is a co-founder of the Working Theater Administrators Salon. A member of the New Georges Jam, Watson has labored with many festivals and new-play growth organizations and has directed works at Asolo Repertory Theatre, the College of North Carolina Faculty of the Arts, Cincinnatti Playhouse, the Washington Nationwide Opera on the Kennedy Heart, the American Conservatory Theater’s college, and extra.
“To speak about Playwrights’ Heart is to speak about chance,” Watson mentioned in a press release. “The group has made an unconditional dedication to supporting writers, and that makes the Heart a beacon of sunshine in these occasions. I’m ecstatic to steer the Heart on this time of development and transition, to turn into a member of and advocate for the colourful creative group within the Twin Cities, and to help artists and their creative follow.”
Watson and Cohen will work collectively within the transition interval from April to June. The PWC board of administrators collaborated with the Tom O’Connor Consulting Group to seek for PWC’s subsequent producing creative director.
The Playwrights’ Heart sustains, develops, and advocates for playwrights and their work to comprehend their full creative potential. The Heart serves playwrights by beginning and sustaining careers, creating new work, and connecting playwrights to theatres, and presents fellows and core writers over $450,000 in direct help annually. As of 2023, the group had a price range of roughly $2.7 million.
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