Donald Fann
Birth Place: United States
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Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Nashville Awards; Voting Ends 12/31 (Dec 26, 2023)
2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW Nashville Awards; ALL SHOOK UP, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Cumberland County Playhouse & More Lead! (Dec 18, 2023)
BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards; ALL SHOOK UP, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Cumberland County Playhouse & More Lead! (Dec 11, 2023)
Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Nashville Awards; Voting Ends 12/31 (Dec 26, 2023)
2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW Nashville Awards; ALL SHOOK UP, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Cumberland County Playhouse & More Lead! (Dec 18, 2023)
BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards; ALL SHOOK UP, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Cumberland County Playhouse & More Lead! (Dec 11, 2023)
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Fann currently works as the Theater Arts Teacher at Stewarts Creek High School. He comes to this postion after serving for 19 years as Executive Director of The Arts Center of Cannon County. He saw that organization grow from a local community theater with an annual attendance of 3,000 into an award-winning regional Arts Center serving a worldwide audience of over 150,000 through its facility, web sites, publications, and recording projects.
At The Arts Center he programmed seasons for one of the premier community theaters in the Southeast including over 150 annual performances averaging 80% capacity and serving 40,000 people annually. The Arts Center of Cannon County has set the standard for high quality community theater from a rural perspective. Fann works hard to discover challenging new works that fit within the cultural context of the community. This has resulted in various premiers over the years including the Tennessee premiers of Art, 1st Baptist of Ivy Gap, and Mitch Albom’s Duck Hunter Shoots Angeland world amateur premiers of Always Patsy Cline, Man of Constant Sorrow and Keep on the Sunny Side. His extensive theatrical background includes over 175 credits for directing, design, and performance.
Since 2010, he has been Principal Guest Director for Crossville’s Cumberland County Playhouse, a professional theater serving over an audience of over 130,000, making it Tennessee’s largest theater audience. His work here has garnered him multiple nominations for BroadwayWorld.com’s Tennessee Theater Awards including winning Best Play and Best Director in the 2010 professional division for Duck Hunter Shoots Angel.
A long time Arts Education Advocate, Fann designed and implemented a school matinee program that currently serves over 10,000 students per year. He established a program, based on the Kennedy Center model, to provide graphically interesting, curriculum based learning materials to each child attending a performance, and initiated a partnership withMiddle Tennessee State University to provide satellite school broadcasts of classes geared to help students better understand the arts events. He also founded residency program and a summer youth theater conservatory at The Arts Center.
In 2002 he founded Spring Fed Records, an independent non-profit record label that has used field recordings and reissues of traditional recordings to build a catalog of over 40 titles which have been reviewed by major national and international music publications. In 2008 John Work III: Recording Black Culture, won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes and garnered feature articles in The New York Times, Associated Press and The International Herald Tribune.
Through his involvement with the Cannon Association of Craft Artists, Fann has worked to support both the traditional and contemporary craft communities, conceived the white oak timber co-op to provide materials to local basketmakers, coordinated the creation of The Crafts Directory featuring over 150 local artists, and created Southern Visions Gallery, a retail crafts outlet for these artists, located at The Arts Center. Under his management, The White Oak Crafts Fair grew from 30 craft artists and an attendance of 800 to over 80 artists and an attendance of 8,000.
He received the 2013 Governor’s Award for the Arts in Arts Leadership for contributions to the state’s arts community. At the ceremony, Governor Bill Haslom said of Donald “with all he has accomplished he has retained the heart of a teacher.” He currently serves as Vice Chair of Humanities Tennessee Board of Directors and is the former Chair of The Tennesseans for the Arts Board. He has served on panels for The Southern Arts Federation and Tennessee Arts Commission, and was a founding member of Tennessee’s peer advisory network.
A native of Woodbury, Tennessee Fann graduated from The University of Memphis with a BFA in Theatre and has received training as a Teaching Artist from The Lincoln Center Institute and the Wolftrap Institute, Foxfire Teacher Training Program, as well as The Tennessee Arts Commission’s Peer Advisory Network. He currently lives on his family farm outside of Woodbury with his wife, Cortilla and his three daughters, Chloe, Hattie and Corinne.
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STAGE TUBE: Nicole & Nate Hackmann in Oklahoma! at Cumberland County Playhouse
by Jeffrey Ellis - Jun 15, 2011
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Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Nashville Awards; Voting Ends 12/31
It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW Nashville Awards; ALL SHOOK UP, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Cumberland County Playhouse & More Lead!
There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards; ALL SHOOK UP, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, Cumberland County Playhouse & More Lead!
It's the final 3 weeks and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 11th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards December 5th Standings; BRIGHT STAR Leads Best Musical!
It's December, and the first standings of the month have been announced as of Tuesday, December 5th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Comes to Cumberland County Playhouse
Beginning August 18, Cumberland County Playhouse presents The Play That Goes Wrong, written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields.
12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards; Audience of One Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
Latest Stats Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards; at Cookeville HE Leads Best Ensemble Performance!
The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
Latest Standings Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards; Audience of One Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
Stewarts Creek High School Fine Arts Department Announces Encore Performances of OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE SKY
The Stewarts Creek High School Fine Arts Department has announced two encore performances of Out of the Clear Blue Sky: Voices of 9/11, an original theatrical work inspired by the events of 9/11.
BWW Review: Cumberland County Playhouse's DUCK HUNTER SHOOTS ANGELS Makes You Laugh, Makes You Think
ou have to hand it to Mitch Albom (the well-known sportswriter turned memoirist turned playwright turned heartland media mogul): the man knows how to craft a tale certain to appeal to a wide swath of his audience, manipulating and cajoling them along the way with good humor and sometimes incisive wit before going for the jugular of the sentimental with a dramatic payoff that’s sure to wring tears, sell tissues and send the aforementioned audiences into the real world with something to think about.
Final Week To Vote for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards
There's just one final week to submit votes for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Vote today to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!
December 19th Update: SINGIN IN THE RAIN - Millennium Repertory Company Leads Best Musical Category in the BWW Nashville Awards Voting
We're heading into the final week of voting for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Vote today to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!
December 2nd Update - Current Standings for the BWW Nashville Awards!
It's December! Voting is now underway for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatres and performers are recognized. Check out the first set of stats below.
Final Chance to Vote for the BWW Nashville Awards!
It's the last week to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.
Just Two Weeks Left To Vote for the 2018 BWW Nashville Awards!
There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.
Three Weeks Left To Vote For the BWW Nashville Awards!
There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.
Vote For The 2018 BWW Nashville Awards; THIRTEEN THE MUSICAL Leads Best Musical!
There's just one month left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.
Vote For The 2018 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards; THE LITTLE MERMAID Leads Best Musical!
There's just one month left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.
HEATHERS, HAIRSPRAY and SPAMALOT On Tap at Murfreesboro's Center for the Arts in 2018
Hairspray, Spamalot, The Little Mermaid and Steel Magnolias are among the shows headlining the 2018 season at Murfreesboro's Center for the Arts. Those four shows are joined by ten more in the list of productions unveiled at Saturday's gala reveal event at CFTA, hosted by Bethany True and George Downer.
2016 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards Winners Announced - Cumberland County Playhouse Dominates With 20 Awards!
Votes are cast; polls are closed; and results have been tabulated! This was our biggest year yet! After a record number of voters in more than 75 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is very excited to announce the 2016 Nashville winners! Thanks to all who voted, and huge congratulations to all the winners!
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