By Jill Yesko, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 4-1-08
Rachel Briley
GREENSBORO, NC – Three prominent arts management professionals with expertise in the field of theater for young audiences will offer their observations on entrepreneurship and theater.
The panel discussion, which will be moderated by Jim Fisher, head of the Department of Theatre at UNCG, will take place on Wednesday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Room 130 of the Moore Nursing Building. The public is welcome at no charge.
The participants are:
• Richard I. Emmet is the executive director of the Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem. He is also the owner and president of Big Burley Leaf Entertainment, an organization that provides operational support for the RiverRun Film Festival, the Eastern Music Festival’s Fringe Series and the Winston-Salem “Cinema in the Streets” program. Emmet has received the R. Phillip Hanes Young Leader in the Arts Award from the Arts Council of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County.
• Bruce LaRowe is executive director of the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte (CTC). LaRowe was formerly associate director of the Arts and Sciences Council of Charlotte-Mecklenburg. The CTC is housed in the recently opened $42 million Joe and Joan Martin Center: ImaginOn, a facility that brings together children’s theater and literature. CTC produces 10 main stage plays a year and has seven touring productions.
• Dr. Rachel Briley is an assistant professor of theatre at UNCG and artistic director of the North Carolina Theatre for Young People and director of the MFA program in Theatre for Youth. Briley has taught and directed at Gallaudet University and was formerly the director of Theatre Education at Western Michigan University. In 2007 she directed a youth theater production in conjunction with the winter Deaflymics held in Utah.
Begun in 2007, BELL initiatives are aimed at building entrepreneurial awareness and the application of entrepreneurial principles and resources for the transformation of academic units across campus. It is the cornerstone of UNCG’s response to the priorities and strategic directions that the UNCG Board of Governors has set for the university system in promoting economic development in the state that includes business, social, civic, cultural and academic pursuits.
For more information about the Entrepreneurial Innovation in the Arts initiative visit http://eia.uncg.edu.
