Bailey has stepped in as PassinArt’s new managing director, a spot left vacant by the passing of co-founder Connie Carley in 2022. Bailey joins Jerry Foster, artistic director since 1995, to lead the company in a time of considerable promise and forward movement.
Bailey has stepped in as PassinArt’s new managing director, a spot left vacant by the passing of co-founder Connie Carley in 2022. Bailey joins Jerry Foster, artistic director since 1995, to lead the company in a time of considerable promise and forward movement.
Seid’s turn in Seven Guitars will be her second time out with PassinArt. She directed Hazardous Beauty by Bonnie Ratner in 2019. Before and after that, she’s written and directed a major body of work including Petite Dames, Path of Glory, The Great God of the Dark Storm Cloud, Jordan’s Wisdom, Overdue, Stand by Me, and This is Message Number 13.
In 1950, the publication Red Channels blacklisted 151 of the most talented performing artists, writers, musicians, producers, directors and thinkers in America. Careers and lives were ruined and lost. Forty-one of those blacklisted were women. Five were women of color. Several listed on Red Channels were gay. A good number were Jewish. All were considered free-thinkers and made out to be enemies of the state. We know many of these names. We should know many more.