Rebecca Ende Lichtenberg. (Photograph by Shakespeare Theatre Firm.)
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Shakespeare Theatre Firm (STC) has named Rebecca Ende Lichtenberg their new govt director. Ende Lichtenberg will be a part of the corporate in February 2024.
“Rebecca brings a wealth of expertise to her new function at STC,” board chair Anita Antenucci mentioned in an announcement. “After a broad nationwide search, Rebecca stood out for her robust theatre acumen and the standard of her work with D.C. theatres that Washingtonians vastly admire.”
Ende Lichtenberg has served because the managing director at D.C.’s Studio Theatre since 2018, shepherding the theatre by means of the challenges of the Covid shutdown. She got here to Studio after serving because the managing director at Theater J, the place she led the theatre by means of a controversial creative director transition. Ende Lichtenberg additionally beforehand managed advertising and marketing and communications for Theater J and has labored in communications with the Sitar Arts Middle.
Ende Lichtenberg will succeed Chris Jennings, who left STC this July after 19 years. Susie Medak has served as STC’s interim govt director since Jennings’s departure. Arts Consulting Group led the nationwide, five-month seek for a brand new govt director below the route of Antenucci and the board.
“I really feel so lucky to have been capable of construct a profession in theatre management whereas staying within the D.C. group, which is likely one of the most vibrant within the nation,” Ende Lichtenberg mentioned in an announcement. “I couldn’t be extra excited to take this subsequent step and be a part of the Shakespeare Theatre Firm as its govt director. I look ahead to partnering with creative director Simon Godwin and dealing with the passionate workers and devoted board to redefine what it means to be a basic theatre firm.”
Shakespeare Theatre Firm has devoted itself to being one of many nation’s premier classical theatres for over 35 years. STC brings to life vibrant, groundbreaking, thought-provoking, and accessible theatre each written by and never written by Shakespeare. As of 2021, the theatre had a price range of roughly $20.2 million.
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