Executive Director Ellen Richard To Leave Position At Second Stage Theatre 6/30

Ellen Richard will leave her position as Executive Director of Second Stage Theatre on June 30. During Ms. Richard's three year tenure, the acclaimed off-Broadway company acquired the right to purchase Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre and saw significant growth in subscription income, single ticket sales, and individual giving. Several institutional initiatives, including the creation of a "Second Generation" program where donors purchased individual subscriptions for low income students, were also created.

"Ellen has been invaluable as Executive Director over these past three years," says Second Stage Theatre Board of Trustees Chairman Stephen Sherrill. "We are experiencing an enormous period of growth and expansion and Ellen has been instrumental in moving the company forward. We wish her the best in all her future endeavors."

Prior to joining Second Stage Theater in the spring of 2006, Ellen Richard helped build the Roundabout Theatre Company from a small off-Broadway non-profit into one of this country's most successful theatre companies. She began working with the Roundabout in 1983. At the time of her departure as Managing Director in 2005, the Roundabout had become one of the country's largest theatre companies of its kind with net assets in excess of $67 million dollars. Prior to joining Roundabout Theatre Company, Ms. Richard worked at the Westport County Playhouse, The Stamford Center for the Arts, The Hartman Theatre and Atlas Scenic Studios. Ms. Richard is the recipient of six Tony Awards as producer for the following productions: Cabaret and A View From the Bridge (both 1998), Sideman (1999), Nine (2003), Assassins (2004), and Glengarry GLen Ross (2005).