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| NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP MAYA CHOLDIN WILL BE THE NEXT MANAGING DIRECTOR OF NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP CHOLDIN JOINS NYTW IN FEBRUARY 2025 (January 13, 2025 – New York, NY) New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director Patricia McGregor) announced today that Maya Choldin will succeed Jeremy Blocker as Managing Director, following a dedicated search led by the Tom O'Connor Consulting Group. Choldin will assume the role beginning February 1, 2025. Raised in Alberta, and a graduate of Mount Allison University, Choldin joins New York Theatre Workshop from Theatre Calgary, where she served as Executive Director for the past four years. Prior to Theatre Calgary, she was Managing Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia, PA, a position she held for six seasons. Choldin has built a long resume in the arts that includes serving as General Manager of the Pennsylvania Ballet, along with roles at George Mason University's Hylton Performing Arts Center, the Kimmel Center, and management of productions and projects at Opera Philadelphia, the Mann Center, and FringeArts. Choldin has served on the boards of a variety of community organizations, with a deep commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in the arts. "I have long admired New York Theatre Workshop, both for the long history of groundbreaking theater and for the deep commitment to bettering the spaces where artists hone their craft, so I could not be more thrilled to join this passionate and dedicated team, led by the inimitable Patricia McGregor,” said Maya Choldin. "I look forward to jumping in this February and working with the many incredible artists, the staff and the audiences that call New York Theatre Workshop home, as we continue the 2025 spring season and look forward, together, to all that's next.” "I am thrilled to welcome the extraordinary Maya Choldin to New York Theatre Workshop as our next Managing Director,” said Artistic Director Patricia McGregor. "Maya's unflappable dexterity animating ideas and solving problems is inspiring. She has a strong history of centering the work of visionary artists while structuring practical systems to meet organizational goals. "Maya's praises have been sung far and wide, from her team at Pig Iron Theatre Company to her collaborators at Theatre Calgary and beyond. Meeting Maya, I was struck by her combination of intelligence, humor, curiosity and strategy. Her sharp skills are an exceptional match for the Workshop in this moment. I am excited to partner with Maya to build the next vital chapter at New York Theatre Workshop.” "We are elated to welcome Maya as our next Managing Director,” said Board President Jaye Chen. "Her depth of experience and sophistication in organizational leadership and her courage and commitment to the arts were clear from the moment we met her. She comes to New York Theatre Workshop with vision, values and integrity. Under the inspired co-leadership of Patricia and Maya, I am eager to discover where they will inspire us next in all our artistic endeavors.” NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP empowers visionary theatre-makers and brings their work to adventurous audiences through productions, artist workshops and education and community engagement programs. We nurture pioneering new writers alongside powerhouse playwrights, engage inimitable genre-shaping directors, and support emerging artists in the earliest days of their careers. We've mounted over 150 productions from artists whose work has shaped our very idea of what theatre can be, including Jonathan Larson's Rent; Tony Kushner's Slavs! And Homebody/Kabul; Doug Wright's Quills; Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde; Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla; Martha Clarke's Vienna: Lusthaus; Will Power's The Seven and Fetch Clay, Make Man; Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, A Number and Love and Information; Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's Aftermath; Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher; Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh's Once; David Bowie and Enda Walsh's Lazarus; Dael Orlandersmith's The Gimmick and Forever; Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me; Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play; Kristina Wong's Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Aleshea Harris's On Sugarland; Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Maria Friedman and choreographed by Tim Jackson; Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich's Here There Are Blueberries; and eight acclaimed productions directed by Ivo van Hove. NYTW's productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, 29 Tony Awards, 2 Grammy Awards and numerous Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards. NYTW is represented on Broadway with Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown, developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin. Alongside its artistic and community engagement activities, NYTW is engaged in the essential, sustained commitment of becoming an anti-racist organization in support and affirmation of Black people, Indigenous people and People of Color in its community. In June of 2020, NYTW published its Core Values statement and initial action and accountability steps. In an effort to provide greater transparency, NYTW shares progress updates, further commitments and next steps at nytw.org/accountability . FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NYTW: WWW.NYTW.ORG |
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