Succeeds former Executive Director Alissa Novoselick
Leadership shift is part of strategy to identify more representative leadership
Living Arts
Laura Scales
Living Arts has named Laura Scales, an academic specialist faculty member in the Michigan State University Department of Theatre, as its new executive director effective June 1.
Scales, who has served as production manager for MSU s theater department, succeeds Alissa Novoselick, who signaled her departure late last year as part of the organization s plan to shift to more representative leadership and had been serving in an interim executive director role.
Scales appointment follows a five-month search led by a search committee of parents, teaching artists, staff and board members working with Boston-based executive search firm Koya Leadership Partners.
Signaling a genuine moment of optimism about the future return of theater to New York City, this morning, the marquee for Thoughts of a Colored Man was installed at the Golden Theatre making it the first new show to take up residence at a Broadway theater since the pandemic forced all plays and musicals to stop performances on March 12, 2020.
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MSU Theatre Department Launches First-Ever Actor Warm-Up Podcast
In conjunction with Digital Learning Day on February 25, the Michigan State University Department of Theatre MFA Acting cohort will launch a six-season podcast, entitled “The Moment Before: An Actor’s Warm-Up Podcast,” which is the only known podcast focusing on quick and convenient ways for actors to warm-up and prepare for auditions, rehearsals, and performances with each season consisting of a series of 10-minute exercises.
Beginning in fall 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic caused MSU to pivot to remote learning, Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement Alexis Black already was thinking of novel ways to engage student actors in movement exercises online.