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Anthony Meindl

Anthony Paul Meindl (born January 14, 1968 in LaPorte, Indiana) is an American Yoga Instructor, stage actor and film actor, and is the founder and artistic director at the MetaTheatre Company and Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop in Los Angeles, California.

Ben Guillory

Raised in San Francisco, California, Guillory co-founded the Robey Theatre Company in honor of the late actor, activist, and operatic singer Paul Robeson, with actor Danny Glover in Los Angeles in 1994, and currently serves as its artistic director.

Caistor Yarborough Academy

The facilities were officially opened on Wednesday 17 October 2007, by John Godber, a renowned English playwright and Artistic Director of Hull Truck Theatre Company.

Chicago Festival Ballet

Currently, Chicago Festival Ballet consists of professional dancers from the United States, South America and Cuba, with Maria Tallchief continuing as artistic advisor and Kenneth von Heidecke as artistic director.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Complexions Contemporary Ballet is a contemporary ballet company founded in 1994 by Co-Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson based in New York City comprising about 14 classical and contemporary dancers.

Isaac Chueke

He is equally recognized as the creator and artistic director of several international projects, multi-disciplinary in nature, coupling music to dance, art exhibits,literature, film, theatre, gastronomy, conferences and workshops: those include, in the US,Carmen 2000, A Czech Festival, Art & Music; Brésil Musical in Paris, Mozart Festival Encontros com Amadeus in Brazil.

Joe Dowling

Joe Dowling (born 27 September 1948) is the Artistic Director for the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Joseph Colaneri

West Australian Opera announced in January 2012 that Colaneri would take up the position of Artistic Director of the company six months later in July, and that he would conduct their September season of Madama Butterfly.

Main Street Theater

Founding Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden enlisted a collection of theater professionals in a temporary home at Autry House, the Episcopal Diocese's community center on Main Street—hence, the new group's name.

Massimiliano Frani

Frani served as associate artistic director of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation in Salt Lake City and as artistic director of the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy.

Michael Wishnie

Wishnie is married to Cathy Edwards, arts administrator who worked as artistic director of Dance Theater Workshop in New York City.

Ron Scot Fry

Ron Scot Fry is the former entertainment and artistic director of the Bristol Renaissance Faire.

San Jose Repertory Theatre

Artistic Director Timothy Near's vision of reaching the ethnically diverse San Jose population was highlighted by opening the newly built new home of the Rep with the West Coast premiere of Thunder Knocking on the Door by African American playwright Keith Glover, with a Rep-commissioned score by Michael Butler and local blues legend Chris Cain.

Teatro Tomasino

The Executive Board is made up of the following with their respective duties and obligations as per stated on the guild's constitution: Artistic Director, Technical Director, Business Director, Executive Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Auditor, Marketing and Public Relations Officer, Asst. Marketing and Public Relations Officer, Alumni and Special Events Coordinator.

Wesley Enoch

Wesley Enoch (born 1969) is an Australian playwright and artistic director of Murri descent from Stradbroke Island (Minjeribah) and he is a proud Noonuccal Nuugi man.


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1988 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

September 17 — In Voronezh on Prospekt of Revolution was unveiled a monument to Mitrofan Pyatnitsky (1864—1927), Russian Soviet musician, actor and collector of Russian folk songs, the founder and a first artistic director of the Pyatnitsky Choir.

Aleksandër Peçi

He graduated from the State Conservatory in Tirana (1974), then worked as the director of Palace of Culture in Përmet; from 1979 he was the artistic director of the National Ensemble of Popular Songs and Dances.

Beatrix Ruf

Ruf is the director of the Kunsthalle Zurich, associate editor for JRP-Ringier, and the artistic director of the Ringier Collection.

Blasted

- A major revival of the play, 15 years on from its debut, by contemporary of Sarah Kane and the Lyric's Artistic Director Sean Holmes starring Danny Webb and Lydia Wilson.

Bruce Steivel

He has previously held the title of Artistic Director at several major companies around the globe including Bern Stadt Theatre, Hong Kong Ballet, Universal Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theatre and Serbian National Ballet.

Caroline Scheufele

She is the Artistic Director and Co-President of Chopard, the Swiss-based luxury watches and jewellery manufacturer.

Chuck Cissel

He was the CEO of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame from 2000–2009 and is now the Artistic Director of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, which is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

CIMA Festival

It was established in 2002 by the English couple Carolyn and Christopher Poll, together with French pianist Marie-Françoise Bucquet and the Portuguese operatic baritone Jorge Chaminé who is the festival’s artistic director.

Damian Cruden

Moving to England, he became Co-artistic Director for the Liverpool Everyman Youth Theatre, then Associate Director for Hull Truck in the early 1990s.

Darijan Božič

Shortly thereafter, he became assistant conductor of the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Company in Ljubljana and from 1970 to 1974, was artistic director of Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Douglas Turner Ward

In 1967, he was one of the founders of the Negro Ensemble Company and served for many years as its artistic director.

Elizabeth Kemp

Kemp serves as Associate Artistic Director the of The Actors Studio, alongside Artistic Director Ellen Burstyn.

Gary Stewart

Garry Stewart (born 1962), artistic director of Australian Dance Theater

Giancarlo del Monaco

Since 2009, he has served as the Artistic Director of the Tenerife Opera Festival.

Igor Krutoy

During that period Igor Krutoy worked also as the artistic director of Valentina Tolkunova band and was giving performances accompanying famous Russian actor Yevgeny Leonov.

Igor Markevitch

Their son, Oleg Caetani, was chief conductor and artistic director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia.

Joe Dowling

He is also well known for his work as Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland, and has directed plays in all the major theatres in Ireland as well as theatres in London, New York, Washington D.C., Montreal, and Alberta.

Kyoko Edo

Kyoko Edo is a pianist, artistic director, and president of the Arion-Edo Foundation.

La Sonora Dinamita

It disbanded in 1963, but was re-formed in 1975 under the direction of Julio Ernesto Estrada "Fruko" Rincón, the artistic director of the Discos Fuentes record label.

Lemi Ponifasio

Requiem (2006) was commissioned by Artistic Director Peter Sellars for the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart.

Leonardo Omar Onida

Leonardo Omar Onida (born 19 July 1973) is a poet who is artistic director of Ottobre in Poesia, an annual literary festival in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.

Lindsey Stagg

The daughter of Barbara A. (née Leney) (born 1945) and Terence F. Stagg (born 1943), who married in 1966 at Rochford in Essex, she was discovered by Michael Napier Brown, the artistic director at the Royal Theatre in Northampton (who also discovered her co-star in the series, Gian Sammarco), who recommended her to Thames Television for the role of Pandora Braithwaite.

Lucerne Festival Strings

Founded in 1956 by Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner and directed by the latter until 1998, Achim Fiedler is the Artistic Director since 1998.

Mihai Chirilov

Mihai Cristian Chirilov (born December 8, 1971, Tulcea, Romania) is a Romanian film critic- one of the most influential of his generation- and artistic director of the Transilvania International Film Festival- TIFF (Cluj- Romania).

Northcott Theatre

1967 - 1971: Tony Church (Artistic Director), Robin Phillips (Associate Director), Bernard Goss (Writer in Residence)

NUS Dance Synergy

He was subsequently selected to study choreography under the tutelage of Mr Ben Stevenson, Artistic Director of the Houston Ballet in the United States in 1988, and was engaged as a Guest Choreographer by the Houston Ballet Academy in 1991.

ODC/Dance

ODC/Dance (formerly, the Oberlin Dance Company) is a contemporary dance company founded in 1971 by current artistic director Brenda Way.

Ondřej Havelka and his Melody Makers

The Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra split in 1995, actor and singer Ondřej Havelka with his colleague Karel Majer leaving to form their own ensemble, with Havelka as artistic director and lead vocalist, and Majer initially as bandleader but leaving after a year.

Paul Buissonneau

In 1952, the City of Montreal appointed Buissonneau as artistic director of La Roulotte, a parks-based outdoor theatre, which gave an early opportunity to famous Quebec artists Yvon Deschamps, Jean-Louis Millette, Claude Jasmin, Claude Léveillé and Robert Charlebois.

Peter Ruzicka

Peter Ruzicka was artistic director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1987 and director of the Hamburg State Opera and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg from 1988 to 1997.

Porto Sant'Elpidio

Theater of the Bees was inaugurated in the year 2006 with Neri Marcorè as the artistic director.

Primavera Productions

Primavera is a professional theatre company founded in 2003 by Tom Littler, who is also the Artistic Director.

Queensland Ballet

In July 2012, renowned Chinese dancer Li Cunxin was named as Artistic Director of the Queensland Ballet.

Ralph Myers

Ralph Myers (born 20 March 1979) is an Australian theatre set-designer and director, and the Artistic Director of Sydney's Belvoir.

Reinbert de Leeuw

He was in 1992 guest artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival and from 1994–1998 artistic director of Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music.

Richard Waller

Waller stepped down as artistic director of the Linton Series on February, 2009, when he was succeeded by co-artistic directors Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson.

Rodolfo Celletti

From 1980 to 1993 he was the Artistic Director of the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca.

S1 Artspace

Over its sixteen-year history, S1 Artspace has presented work by over 300 artists and accommodated over 100 artists through its studios from Martin Clark, Artistic Director at Tate St Ives to Haroon Mirza, Northern Art Prize and Silver Lion Award Winner at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.

Sara Carvalho

Sara is an Artistic Director and founding member of the Contemporary Music Group Momentum Ensemble, and she works in the Department of Art and Communication of Aveiro University where she teaches Composition, Analysis and Orchestration.

Schola Antiqua of Chicago

Calvin M. Bower, Professor Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame and currently a researcher at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, was the Artistic Director of Schola Antiqua from its inception until 2008.

Steven McElroy

In the late 1990s, McElroy was artistic director of Sensurround, Inc., where he directed Lynn Siefert's Coyote Ugly and Little Egypt as well as his own adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies.

The Australian Voices

Graeme Morton was artistic director and conductor from 1993 to 1996.

The History of King Lear

The production was directed by the company's Artistic Director, W. Stuart McDowell, and featured Eric Hoffmann in the role of Lear, and supported by an Equity company of fifteen, including Frank Muller in the role of the Bastard Edmund.

The Rhodopi International Theater Collective

It was founded by Karapetkov, Stein, RDT Artistic Director Krustyo Krustev, and American dramaturg Benjamin Nadler, with the partnership of the RDT, the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, The HyperMedia Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Zagreb's Academy of Dramatic Art.

Thin Man Theatre

It was founded by Nora Mally (Artistic Director) and Nikki Beck (Producing Director) in 2008 while they were working at New Century Theatre, an Actors' Equity Association company in Western Massachusetts.

Vantile Whitfield

He was also founding Artistic Director of Studio West and co-founder with actor Robert Hooks of the D.C. Black Repertory Company.

Vera Volkova

Sir Peter Wright, former Principal dancer and Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet

Vilmos Szabadi

In 1995 Szabadi established, as Artistic Director, a chamber music festival in Keszthely, a resort on Lake Balaton.

Yelena Trofimenko

Yelena is a founder, originator, and artistic director of creative studio “Youth Studio XXI ” («Belarusfilm», 2002).

Zurich Chamber Orchestra

In 1996, Howard Griffiths assumed the post of artistic director and served until 2006.