LaTeshia Ellerson and Karena Fiorenza Appointed as TCG Interim Management
Present CEO Teresa Eyring to start sabbatical January 1, 2024
Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the nationwide group for theatre, has appointed LaTeshia Ellerson and Karena Fiorenza as interim government leaders. Their phrases will start January 1, 2024. Fiorenza will act as Interim Chief Govt Officer and Ellerson as Interim Chief Progress Officer. Present government chief and CEO Teresa Eyring begins a five-month sabbatical on January 1, 2024, and can return for the 2024 TCG Nationwide Convention in Chicago in June 2024. TCG has retained a staff from Inventive Evolutions to handle the transition course of to new management over the approaching 12 months.
“After seventeen years of main TCG, Teresa has greater than earned a sabbatical, and the board is in settlement with Teresa that it’s time to prioritize it,” stated Harold Steward, board chair, TCG. “…We’re so lucky to have leaders like LaTeshia Ellerson and Karena Fiorenza moving into this interim construction. Their skilled experience, sensible individuals administration expertise, emotional intelligence, and love for our TCG neighborhood are simply what we want for this second of serious transition.”
Ellerson and Fiorenza will assume their interim government management roles via August 31, 2024. Eyring will likely be celebrated on the 2024 TCG Gala on March 11, 2024, in addition to the TCG Nationwide Convention. Her contract time period will finish in June 2024. As interim government leaders, Fiorenza and Ellerson will share management of organizational technique and work tradition. They will even individually present oversight of various TCG departments. As Chief Progress Officer, Ellerson will oversee institutional and particular person giving, advertising and marketing, membership, and advocacy. Ellerson beforehand served as TCG’s director of institutional philanthropy, serving in that place since September 2021. As Chief Govt Officer, Fiorenza will oversee programming, analysis, communications, publishing, and administration and operations. Fiorenza beforehand joined TCG in July 2023 as interim Chief Working Officer.
After session with the workers and board, Inventive Evolutions has up to date the timeline of the chief search, with the intent for the exterior course of to launch on the finish of March 2024.
“Over the previous few months that I’ve been working in an interim capability with TCG, I’ve been so impressed by the thoughtfulness, ardour, and joyful rigor of workers and board members,” stated Fiorenza. “I’m thrilled to proceed working with the workers, board, and my shut pal LaTeshia to steer TCG via this vital second of transition. Over the subsequent eight months, we’ll be operationalizing strategic initiatives, strengthening office tradition, and leveling up enterprise practices to make sure we’re able to welcome the subsequent era of TCG’s management.”
“On this new position, I stay up for rising TCG’s sources and capability to satisfy that mission and to satisfy the various challenges and alternatives dealing with our theatre ecology. It’s particularly energizing to take action in partnership with Karena, with whom I participated in TCG’s SPARK Management Program,” stated Ellerson.
“After 17 rewarding years at TCG, I’m grateful that the board has totally supported my sabbatical,” stated Eyring. “It’s not straightforward to depart a company you’ve poured your complete coronary heart into, but I achieve this figuring out TCG is in good palms with Karena, LaTeshia, and our extraordinary workers. From the Nice Recession to the COVID-19 pandemic, the previous twenty years have had their share of shocks and challenges. But we’ve all the time risen to satisfy them, and I’ll take the inspiration I’ve present in our workers and the theatre individuals we serve into no matter is subsequent.”
LaTeshia Ellerson (she/her) has over 16 years of expertise as a fundraising skilled. Her experience is in creating strategic fundraising plans and creating compelling narratives to extend contributed income at nonprofits. LaTeshia’s love for the performing arts started as a younger actress. This ardour continues as she raises funds to advertise the indispensable affect of arts organizations. LaTeshia started her profession at Kenny Leon’s True Colours Theatre Firm in 2007 as a Improvement Affiliate/Annual Fund Supervisor. In 2013, she was promoted to Director of Improvement. She efficiently led the trouble to greater than double True Colours’ annual fund, company contributions, and basis assist. In 2021, she joined Theatre Communications Group as their Director of Institutional Philanthropy. LaTeshia participated within the 2014-15 SPARK Management Program, funded by American Categorical, The Joyce Basis, and The Andrew W. Mellon Basis and administered by Theatre Communications Group. In 2015, she was chosen as one in every of American Theatre Journal’s “High 20 Theatre Professionals to Watch.” LaTeshia is a sought-after speaker and nationwide thought chief within the areas of fundraising and theatre administration. She has suggested nonprofits in strategic visionary development, creating mission and worth statements, and management improvement. She is an lively mentor to theatre directors, a board member of the Suzi Bass Awards, and participates within the dance ministry at her native church in Atlanta, GA. LaTeshia holds a Bachelor of High-quality Arts from the Theatre Faculty at DePaul College in Chicago and a Grasp of Science in City Coverage Research/Nonprofit Management from Georgia State College.
Karena Fiorenza (she/her/ella) is the CEO and Founding father of Ánimo Consulting, a boutique administration consulting agency that helps organizations with technique, tradition constructing, teaching, change administration and fractional C-Suite government providers. Karena brings twenty years of expertise as an equity-driven government chief with a demonstrated historical past of initiating constructive organizational change whereas advancing artwork, mission, individuals, tradition and income targets. Earlier tenures embrace Interim CEO for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and Hubbard Avenue Dance Chicago; Basic Supervisor for UNIVERSES, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Hubbard Avenue Dance Chicago; Affiliate Managing Director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre; and Govt Director of latest dance firm Robert Moses’ Kin. She holds two bachelor’s levels from the College of California at Berkeley, an MFA in Theater Administration from Yale College, and was a 2021 Civic Management Academy Fellow on the Harris Faculty of Public Coverage on the College of Chicago. Karena at the moment lives in sunny Los Angeles, CA together with her husband, toddler, and fluffy canine and finds pleasure in additionally being a contemporary stained and fused glass artist.
Teresa Eyring (she/her/hers), government director/CEO, joined TCG in 2007. Underneath her management, TCG has invested in constructing higher fairness, variety, and inclusion within the American theatre area and promotes a imaginative and prescient for “a greater world for theatre, and a greater world due to theatre.” Earlier than becoming a member of TCG, Eyring spent greater than 20 years as an government in theatres throughout the U.S. Prior positions have included: managing director of the Kids’s Theatre Firm in Minneapolis; managing director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia; assistant government director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis; and improvement director of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Firm in Washington, D.C. Eyring holds a BA in Worldwide Relations from Stanford College and an MFA in Theatre Administration from David Geffen Faculty of Drama at Yale. She is on the chief council and Vice President for the Americas of the Worldwide Theatre Institute and is on the boards of the Performing Arts Alliance and the Higher Manhattan Empowerment Zone. She can be an advisory board member of SMU DataArts and serves on the Leisure Group Fund’s Human Companies Committee.
Inventive Evolutions is a human-centered, adaptive ecosystem centered on creating actionable options for inventive people and organizations. Based by Calida Jones and Douglas Clayton in 2022, Inventive Evolutions is constructed on a enterprise mannequin that uplifts and rewards the worth created by individuals within the ecosystem, paired with particular person autonomy and self-determination. The groups at Inventive Evolutions have already pioneered new constructions for a lot of cultural assist processes, together with strategic work, organizational tradition rebuilds, and shifting approaches to board perform and staffing expectations. Inventive Evolutions’ method to government search consists of direct compensation to semifinalist and finalist candidates in addition to these offering candidate referrals, participating business panelists who take part in candidate choice and who change into mentors to new management, detailed transition planning that covers your entire first 12 months, and inclusive constructions that carry workers and board collectively in respectful and collaborative methods all through the method. More and more Inventive Evolutions is participating deeply with organizations to develop new constructions for management and energy administration that create more healthy and extra dynamic relationships between the people that organizations exist to serve. Inventive Evolutions obtained a primary place award on the 2023 Yale Innovation Summit, and will likely be co-curating content material and improvements for the Summit in 2024. CreativeEvolutions.com
