Jill A. Anderson.
MINNEAPOLIS: Youngsters’s Theatre Firm (CTC) has named Jill A. Anderson, the present managing director of Syracuse Stage in New York, to be its new managing director. Anderson will assume the publish on July 22. She succeeds Kimberly Motes, who departed final October to turn into government director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater. CTC board member Steven J. Thompson has been serving as interim managing director since Motes’s departure.
“I’m thrilled to affix the workers, board, and artists of Youngsters’s Theatre Firm, and to associate with Rick Dildine in main this exceptional group,” stated Anderson in an announcement. “I’ve lengthy held CTC within the utmost regard, and am humbled by the chance to return to a neighborhood I like—and a theatre the place I first labored greater than 20 years in the past—to construct upon CTC’s sturdy basis with such a devoted and proficient crew.”
At Syracuse Stage, Anderson has been chargeable for an $8 million working funds, and had oversight of fundraising, advertising, and operational issues inside the group. Beneath Anderson’s management, Syracuse Stage has achieved working surpluses in seven consecutive years, maintained full employment all through the COVID pandemic, and has seen two of its world premiere productions open on Broadway. The corporate has additionally launched main expansions of its neighborhood engagement and academic programming and was acknowledged with the Onondaga Historic Affiliation’s Medal and Interfaith Works’ Racial Justice Award.
“Jill is likely one of the most distinguished executives within the American theatre,” stated incoming creative director Rick Dildine in an announcement. “I’m delighted that she will probably be becoming a member of me this summer season to embark on a brand new journey at Youngsters’s Theatre Firm. I look ahead to working intently with Jill as we collaborate with the superb board and workers to construct a vibrant future for CTC.”
Previous to becoming a member of Syracuse Stage, Anderson spent a decade as basic supervisor on the Eugene O’Neill Theater Middle in Waterford, Conn. Throughout her tenure, the O’Neill accomplished a $7 million capital marketing campaign and campus enlargement, doubled its working funds, and was honored with the Nationwide Medal of Arts and a Regional Theatre Tony Award. Beneath the O’Neill’s aegis, Anderson additionally developed the Baltic Playwrights Convention, an annual worldwide new-play improvement retreat held in Hiiumaa, Estonia.
Beforehand, Anderson spent 5 years within the manufacturing workplace at Washington, D.C.’s Area Stage, after working as a stage supervisor in Minnesota, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. As well as, Anderson is an teacher within the theatre administration program of the Syracuse College Division of Drama, constructing on her work with highschool and faculty college students elsewhere, together with on the Kennedy Middle American School Theater Pageant. Anderson has been acknowledged as a part of the Central NY Enterprise Journal’s “40 Beneath Forty” and serves on quite a few municipal and nonprofit boards. Initially hailing from Marshfield, Wisc., Anderson is delighted to return to the Higher Midwest and to the neighborhood through which her skilled profession started.
Youngsters’s Theatre Firm (CTC) is the nation’s largest and most acclaimed theatre for younger folks and serves a multigenerational viewers. It creates theatre experiences that educate, problem, and encourage practically 250,000 folks yearly. As of 2022, the theatre’s funds was round $11.3 million.
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