While mourning one of South Florida theater’s most influential leaders, the GableStage board filled a programming void with Engage@GableStage, featuring fresh and free short, digital content from diverse artists.
But the board’s most significant task — carried out with a search committee that included Guthrie Theater artistic director Joseph Haj and actor-writer-director Teo Castellanos — was to select Adler’s successor. A national search yielded 85 applicants, with the pool then narrowed to 25, then 10, then five... then one.
The new leader at the helm of GableStage is Bari Newport, who has served for the past nine years as producing artistic director of the Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor, Maine.