Managing the future.(FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)(theater managers)
American Theatre, January, 2007 by Bolt, Gigi
Wayne Henderson, a folk and traditional artist, is a master guitar maker and player. He was once asked just how he makes a guitar. His response: "Well, you get some great spruce or rosewood and then cut away everything that don't look like a guitar." Those words could stand as a more than passable definition of the work of a playwright or actor or director. And they most assuredly describe the work of a managing director, who must masterfully craft and shape a complex living organization in response to its mission and vision.
Even in the early days of the resident ...
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