First-Time Artistic Directors Convene.(Brief Article)

The summer of 2000 marked another first for TCG: the inaugural meeting of the New Artistic Leader Institute (NALI), held in Ashland, Ore., at a retreat near the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

The Institute was conceived as a response to the lack of training available to first-time artistic directors. Among its goals is the introduction and analysis of the tools required to run a theatre company, including fiscal management, fundraising, maintaining solid board relations and community involvement. First-time artistic directors of TCG member theatres, who had been in their ...