Harold Steward. (Picture by Pat Piasecki.)
NEW YORK CITY: Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has named Harold Steward the brand new chair of their board. Steward suceeds Nikkole Salter, who served as board chair from July 2020 to July 2023.
“It’s our pleasure to welcome Harold Steward to the function of board chair at a time of each problem and alternative. Their perspective as a cultural strategist, theatre chief, and now funder will likely be invaluable as we meet this second of disaster and chrysalis for our theatre ecology,” TCG govt director and CEO Teresa Eyring stated in a press release. “Harold has introduced imaginative and prescient, pleasure, and care to their work as a TCG trustee, and I stay up for working with them and the entire of the board in my closing yr at TCG.”
Steward is the manager director of the New England Basis for the Arts. They beforehand served as the manager director and cultural strategist on the Theater Offensive and the supervisor of the South Dallas Cultural Heart. In 2009, Steward based the Fahari Arts Institute in Dallas. They’re a member of the theatre school at Emerson School and a founding member of NextGen Nationwide Arts Community.
Steward was beforehand the co-chair of the TCG board’s variety, fairness, and inclusion committee. They are going to be joined by vice chairs John Fontillas, Area Stage creative director Hana S. Sharif, and Merrique Jenson.
“It’s a nice honor to serve on this management function at TCG presently,” Steward stated in a press release. “TCG has been instrumental in my understanding of myself as a theatre practitioner since highschool. This can be a vital second in our subject and our society, and the board of TCG feels poised to assist advance our subject’s wishes and alternatives.”
Over the previous yr, TCG has modified its governance construction to share energy on the board degree. The Viability Board is the principle governor and works alongside 4 job forces: Subsequent Era, Breaking Limitations, World Connectivity, and Capitalization.
Theatre Communications Group leads for a simply and thriving theatre ecology and represents over 700 member theatres and affiliate organizations. By way of its applications and companies, TCG reaches over a million college students, viewers members, and theatre professionals every year. It is usually the writer of this journal.
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