Howard Sherman is an arts administrator, advocate and writer.He was the executive director of the American Theatre Wing from 2003 to 2011. In addition, he was instrumental in the development of ATW’s National Theatre Company Grants program, and secured the organization’s first-ever funding from The Shubert Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Since 2011, he has become an influential advocate for high school theatre, notably taking an active role in content challenges by school administrations in numerous communities nationally, and he writes extensively about intellectual and creative freedom in academic, community and professional theatre. Immediately prior to joining ATW, he spent three years as Executive Director of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford CT, overseeing the Center’s educational and developmental programs. In February 2015, he was named director of the new Arts Integrity Initiative at the New School for Drama, focused on creative and academic freedom in the arts.
Howard doesn’t hold his opinions back, and he even took me to task in this podcast (I’ll let you listen to hear just how), as we discussed . . .
- What NY Producers can learn from Regional Theaters (I loved this answer)
- Why Movie Studios coming to Broadway may very well be a good, good thing.
- He takes Broadway’s temperature on Diversity – and says how we’re doing. And what we can do better.
- Why social media isn’t for everyone . . . but why it is for him.
- How he became the archivist for Hamilton’s “Ham-For-Ham” performances.
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