The Castillo Theatre will announce the appointment of Dan Friedman, Ph.D. as its artistic director on Sunday, April 4 at 3:30 p.m. at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues). He was preceded in this position by Fred Newman, who retired in 2005.
Dan Friedman brings his deep and unique history in community and political theatre to this new role. He has been active in political, experimental and community-based theatre since the late 1960s. He helped to found Madison, Wisconsin's Theatre-in-the-Park and New York City's Theatre Collective and Workers' Stage, before becoming a founder of Castillo, the All Stars Project's experimental political theatre, more than a quarter of a century ago. Since 1989, Friedman has served as Castillo's dramaturg. He has directed the All Stars' youth theatre, Youth Onstage!, and been dean of its free theatre training program, the Youth Onstage! Community Performance School. A playwright who has written or co-written 15 plays, he holds a doctorate in theatre history from the University of Wisconsin, and has taught theatre, public speaking and writing at Baruch College, Queensborough Community College, York College, and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.Videos