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UPDATE: Feature article by Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle, August 12
Received from Tex-Arts:
TexARTS announces Management Changes.
TexARTS Association for the Visual and Performing Arts is restructuring its management team. Co-founder, Robin Lewis, will continue as Creative Director. Broadway veteran Robert Armitage will join the company as Producing Director. Theater veteran Shari Getz will act as Interim Managing Director and Co-founder Todd Dellinger will continue to instruct students and help with productions and marketing.
The new management team will begin transitioning immediately. Robert Armitage brings more than 20 years of performance, dance, and management experience including productions on Broadway, touring companies, Radio City Music Hall, Disney and Summer Stock. Shari Getz joins the team with expertise in non-profit management as well as significant experience as a professional performer including singing and dancing. These two professionals will allow TexARTS to further develop and pursue its vision of producing outstanding theatrical performances involving Broadway professionals and local artists, and offering a Broadway level of arts education programs and children's theatrical productions.
Co-founders Lewis and Dellinger will continue to lead the vision and passion of the organization. The new additions to the management team will allow the founders to share their expertise with other organizations while maintaining their ties to TexARTS. Dellinger will also serve as the Director of Arts Management at Rider University's Westminster College of Arts in Princeton, New Jersey. Lewis will be serving as Head of the Musical Theater Dance Program at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. These prestigious positions will allow the two founding partners to continue to serve TexARTS classes and productions throughout the school year and especially during college break periods.
This restructuring ensures that TexARTS will maintain the high-quality, creative, outstanding work that students and patrons have come to trust. The organization is excited about this new chapter in the TexARTS story. Expectations are high as we approach the beginning of Fall Academy Classes and launch a new slate of theatrical performances.
TexARTS is a 501c3 organization, which conducts artistic & educational productions and programs of excellence each year. Chiefly, TexARTS produces professional, Broadway-quality classic American Musicals and plays; presents professional, state & nationally-recognized artists; educates individuals from age three through senior adult, from all walks of life, utilizing top working professionals from Broadway, top university programs and other great arts centers. TexARTS may be contacted at www.tex-arts.org or (512) 852-9079 for more information.
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