Laura Penn
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Laura Penn is an American producer, managing director, and executive director. She is currently a professor at Yale University. Penn currently serves as the executive director for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), the labor union for directors and choreographers. Penn is the first female co-chair of the Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds (COBUG),[1] the co-founder and co-chair of Broadway Salutes,[2] a member of the Tony Awards Administration Committee, and a Tony voter.[3]
Career[edit]
Early career[edit]
Penn began her career at Washington D.C.’s Arena Stage, where she served as the Assistant Subscription Manager for two years.[4] She then became the Communications Manager for the Living Stage Theatre Company, the nationally recognized model community outreach company working with disadvantaged youth and incarcerated men and women.[5]
Seattle Repertory Theatre[edit]
After the Living Stage Theatre Company, Penn continued her career at Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle, Washington, where she served as Assistant Production Manager, Special Projects Director, and finally the Associate Managing Director of the theater.[4]
Intiman Theatre[edit]
Penn served as the Intiman Theatre's managing director for almost fifteen years. Several of the top directors and playwrights in the nation had their works presented at the Theatre during her leadership.[6] She founded the Intiman Theatre Foundation,[7] She was awarded the "Seattle Distinguished Citizen" Award by Mayor Paul Schell in 2001.[4]
While in Seattle, Penn also served as Vice President of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), a two-term Chair for the Seattle Arts Commission, and the Production Manager for the Seattle/Soviet Theatre Exchange traveling to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and Moscow.[8]
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society[edit]
Penn currently serves as the executive director for the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), the labor union for directors and choreographers.[9] Penn initiated a rebranding campaign for SDC, established both the Zelda Fichandler and Gordon Davidson Awards, and launched the SDC Journal, a quarterly magazine.
Academic career[edit]
Penn is currently on faculty at Yale University, where she teaches Labor and Employee Relations in the MFA graduate program for arts management.[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Laura Penn of SDC and Joe Hartnett of IATSE Named Co-Chairs of COBUG". Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
- ↑ "Inside the 10th Annual Broadway Salutes with Danny Burstein and Nicolette Robinson". Playbill.
- ↑ Gold, Sylviane (4 June 2006). "The Regional Theater Tony Award Not Always a Theater-Changing Moment". The New York Times.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Intiman manager Penn is N.Y. bound". The Seattle Times. 14 December 2007.
- ↑ "Reality Comes Alive On Living Stage". The Seattle Times.
- ↑ Taylor, Kate (18 May 2011). "Prestige Can't Halt Downfall of Theater". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Foundation is laid for Intiman endowment". Business Journals.
- ↑ Huston, Caitlin (11 December 2018). "SDC renews executive director Laura Penn's contract through 2024". Broadway News.
- ↑ "Agnes de Mille Sealed This Envelope in 1963. Five Choreographers Are Imagining What's Inside". Dance Magazine.
- ↑ "Laura Penn". David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
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