Artistic director to leave Lord Leebrick after this season.Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard Corey Pearlstein, managing artistic director at the Lord Leebrick Theatre Co. since August 2000, is stepping down to "pursue other matters." "It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to move on," said Pearlstein, 29. Although Pearlstein has in mind to further personal goals, he isn't sure precisely what he will do next. "It's just time for me to focus on other things," Pearlstein said, noting that he had intended to stay in the post for only two years. "I feel like I've done what I came to do." The exact date of Pearlstein's departure is vague, pending the hiring of a successor, for whom a national search has just begun. However, Pearlstein is expected to leave Lord Leebrick Theatre soon after the close of Leslie Ayvazian's "Nine Armenians" (June 4-28), which will end the 2002-03 season. But first Pearlstein will direct his last show at the theater, George Walker's comedy "Escape from Happiness" (which begins this week and runs through Oct. 26), and finish other projects. Pearlstein said he resigned early in the 2002-03 season so the board can find a successor that he might mentor for several months. After leaving Lord Leebrick Theatre, Pearlstein said, he will take a short vacation, then will probably return to the East Coast where he could pursue free-lance directing opportunities, take a job in arts marketing or attend graduate school. Pearlstein was praised by board president Sandra Gladney for doing "a wonderful job." "He's brought incredible vision and energy to the physical space and the artistic work," she said. "He took to heart many of the things we wanted to do with the Second Season, in bringing in new faces while using the faces that have already been involved for many years. He's really tried to use all of the palette that's available to us in the theater." Gladney said Pearlstein not only extended the parameters of the main season but experimented with different ways of doing summer productions by using the space as a venue for other groups in town, obtained grants to improve the sound and lighting systems, changed the seating configuration, renovated the lobby, reorganized re·or·gan·ize v. re·or·gan·ized, re·or·gan·iz·ing, re·or·gan·iz·es v.tr. To organize again or anew. v.intr. To undergo or effect changes in organization. the administrative staff and relocated the office space. "A good all-around job," she said. As managing artistic director, Pearlstein succeeded Randy Lord, who started the company in 1992 with college buddy Chris Leebrick. Lord moved out of the front office to lead the company's new Impact Theatre! educational wing. Leebrick moved to Portland to work as an actor, teacher and storyteller. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. at Amherst in 1995, Pearlstein went to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . There he worked at Circle Repertory Theatre repertory theatre Production of several different plays in a single season by a resident acting company. The plays chosen may be classic works by famous dramatists or new works by emerging playwrights, and the companies that perform them often serve as a training ground for and directed plays in development at Dixon Place  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . before moving to Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is an organization dedicated to the promotion of non-profit professional theatre in the United States. TCG has over 450 member theatres located in 47 states; 17,000 individual members; and a growing number of University, Funder, Business and , where he coordinated the group's national theater conference. He was the founder and artistic director of the Massachusetts-based Tabula Rasa tab·u·la ra·sa n. pl. tab·u·lae ra·sae 1. a. The mind before it receives the impressions gained from experience. b. The unformed, featureless mind in the philosophy of John Locke. 2. Theatre Company. He also spent two years in the press and marketing department of the Westport Country Playhouse The Westport Country Playhouse is a theatre in Westport, Connecticut, founded in 1930 by Lawrence Langner and his wife Armina Marshall. It is a non-profit theatre currently run by Tazewell Thompson, Anne Keefe, and Joanne Woodward. It recently underwent a $30. in Westport, Conn. Pearlstein also has worked with Afro Solo and The Holy Theatre in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ; co-founded Kamerni Teatar with Bosnian director Davor Diklich; done multiple design projects with the Chicago theater Cave 76; and directed staged readings of new works in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Chicago and San Francisco. Rather than continuing to combine the business and artistic duties in one position (managing artistic director), Gladney said the theater company will split the duties between an artistic director and a general manager. To that end, Julie Voelker-Morris was hired as the general manager on Sept. 1. Search committee chairwoman Janet Reed said a nationwide search for Pearlstein's successor is under way, although she emphasized that "local candidates familiar with the Eugene market are encouraged to apply." The job is posted on the theater Web site (www.lordleebrick.com). |
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