Eric Engel to Assume Artistic Director position at Gloucester Stage Company
(excerpted from Gloucester Stage Company newsletter Fall/Winter 2006)

From President of the board, Barry Weiner: On behalf of my fellow Board Members, I am pleased to announce that Eric Engel will be our new Artistic Director as of January 1, 2007. He will succeed founding Artistic Director, Israel Horovitz, who has been the company's artistic leader for 27 seasons. No stranger to the GSC family, Eric Engel has served for the past two years in the dual roles of Producing Director and Associate Artistic Director. He has worked graciously and effectively with the Board, the staff, artists and members of the community. Eric is both a highly skilled administrator and an accomplished stage director. The productions he has staged for GSC rank among the most memorable in our history including the Elliot Norton Award winning Collected Stories, Israel's My Old Lady, this season's enormously popular The Heidi Chronicles and my personal favorite, The Subject was Roses. Eric is the Director of Harvard's Memorial Hall/ Sanders Theatre Complex, a position he will maintain. If you know Eric, I am sure you will be as pleased as we are by this good news. If you don't know him, I trust you will find the opportunity to meet him and lend him your support.

Sneak Preview of 2007 Gloucester Stage Company Season - Eric Engel
Greetings friends and colleagues. I look forward to being your guide for the next phase of the Gloucester Stage Company journey! We will take a few new turns but our destination remains the same - to bring you sometimes lighthearted, sometimes provocative but always smartly written and presented plays. And yes, we continue to be committed to the presentation of at least one world premiere in each season. Our 2007 season will open on May 17th with The Diary of Anne Frank. Film and stage actress (and Gloucester resident!) Lindsay Crouse will star in The Belle of Amherst, currently slated to open in August and run in repertory with Jerome Kilty's delightful play, Dear Liar, based upon the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, featuring Paula Plum and Richard Snee. Other titles under consideration include Dario Fo's political satire Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July and an exciting new world premiere comedy. Needless to say, titles are subject to change.

posted December 12, 2006

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