FAYETTEVILLE, ARK., and PRINCETON, N.J.: TheatreSquared has introduced that longtime government director and producer Martin Miller will depart the corporate in September. Miller will tackle the function of government director of the McCarter Theatre Middle.

“McCarter is without doubt one of the nice American arts facilities and Princeton is a particular place,” Miller stated in an announcement about his appointment to McCarter. “It’s a singular privilege to companion with creative director Sarah Rasmussen, the board, the proficient workers, and, most significantly, with this neighborhood to assist launch its thrilling subsequent stage.”

“In simply over a decade, Martin and creative director Bob Ford have pushed transformational development,” TheatreSquared board president Todd Simmons stated in an announcement. “From the pages of The New York Instances to phases throughout the nation, TheatreSquared is now a reputation identified and revered all through the business. We’ll miss Martin profoundly, however we’re simply as deeply grateful for his indelible contribution to Northwest Arkansas’s cultural panorama.”

Simmons will lead an government transition committee to collect enter from workers and key stakeholders. The committee will announce their subsequent steps in August, previous to Miller’s departure. Miller will start his tenure at McCarter on Sept. 7. McCarter’s interim managing director, Susie Medak, will proceed to steer the theatre this summer season.

“I’m excited to companion with Martin as we thoughtfully join with audiences and develop this beloved establishment,” McCarter’s Rasmussen stated in an announcement. “We’re thrilled to align Martin’s observe file of getting huge concepts off the bottom with McCarter’s strategic plans, together with our signature collaborations with Princeton College and neighborhood companions.”

Miller joined TheatreSquared on the finish of its third season in 2009 after serving as affiliate producer at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He helped develop the theatre’s attendance and fundraising whereas producing 135 performs and developmental workshops and rising the workers. Miller additionally supervised the fundraising, design, and development of the theatre’s new everlasting residence, then TheatreSquared’s shift to streaming protections on the onset of the pandemic. Below Miller’s management, TheatreSquared’s annual revenues have exceeded bills, rising to a $7.5 million annual finances. The theatre additionally introduced residence Arkansas’s first Obie Award, as properly awards from the Black Motion Collective and LatinXNA.

“Co-leading TheatreSquared has been a privilege, a pleasure, and an ever-rewarding journey,” Miller stated in an announcement. “It’s fantastic to know that generations of Northwest Arkansans will stroll via these doorways and expertise exceptional artwork in an area the place they really belong. I do know that for TheatreSquared, the most effective is but to come back.”

TheatreSquared strives to supply daring new performs in an intimate setting, welcoming greater than 80,000 neighborhood members as Arkansas’s largest theatre. The playwright-led firm is a number one laboratory for brand new work, and affords far-reaching entry and teaching programs and an all-day café. As of 2022, the theatre had a finances of roughly $7.9 million.

The McCarter Theatre Middle is a multidisciplinary artistic and mental hub providing theatre, music, dance, spoken phrase, and household and academic packages for all ages. McCarter leaders with the values of justice and pleasure and is well known for creating new work. As of 2022, the theatre had a finances of roughly $14.3 million.

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