Paula Tomei. (Photograph by South Coast Repertory.)
COSTA MESA, CALIF.: South Coast Repertory (SCR) introduced right now that managing director Paula Tomei will step down on the finish of the present season. She has been with SCR for 44 years, together with 30 as managing director.
“It has been an honor and distinct privilege for me to not solely function South Coast Repertory’s
managing director for the previous 30 years, however to spend my total profession working right here,” Tomei stated in an announcement. “All through that point, I’ve been frequently impressed by and lucky to have labored with
exceptional artists, devoted workers, and unbelievable group leaders and supporters. There’s no
better pleasure in life than doing what you like, and I used to be one of many fortunate individuals who skilled that daily.”
As SCR’s first and solely managing director, Tomei has led the group by means of quite a few durations of development and alter, together with a number of large-scale fundraising campaigns. She co-led the corporate by means of the pandemic shutdown and subsequent reopening, bringing theatre to the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano. From 2005 to 2011, Tomei led the endowment marketing campaign to help inventive and academic applications, together with the Pacific Playwrights Pageant and theatre for younger audiences initiatives. She additionally served because the president of the board of administrators for Theatre Communications Group, the writer of American Theatre, for 4 years, and served as TCG’s treasurer. She additionally served because the vice chairman of the League of Resident Theatres and as a member of their negotiating committee for industry-wide union agreements.
In her time at SCR, Tomei has acquired the Arts Orange County Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award, the Metropolis of Costa Mesa’s Mayor’s Award, recognition from the Orange County Enterprise Journal, and recognition from her alma mater, the College of California Irvine. She was appointed by the UC Irvine chancellor to the college’s Neighborhood Arts Council and can be a board member of Arts Orange County and the Nicholas Endowment. Tomei has taught nonprofit administration at UC Irvine and has taught within the enterprise college at Stanford College.
“It’s an honor to work alongside Paula Tomei,” inventive director David Ivers stated in an announcement. “Her confirmed file of stewardship and her super respect for South Coast Repertory has anchored the theatre with the imaginative and prescient and assets it requires to remain related into the long run. I’m deeply indebted to her for her private {and professional} help throughout very difficult instances. She will probably be missed dearly.”
The SCR board of trustees is organizing a seek for Tomei’s successor.
South Coast Repertory presents a steadiness of traditional and trendy performs and musicals. The theatre is thought for its complete new-play improvement program, the Lab@SCR, which incorporates one of many nation’s largest commissioning applications for rising, mid-career and established writers. As of 2021, the theatre had a funds of roughly $10.6 million.
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