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Matthew Gardiner, new Artistic Director of Signature Theatre. Photo by Christopher Mueller.
Signature Theatre’s Board of Directors voted to accept the recommendation from the Artistic Director Search Committee to
appoint
Matthew Gardiner Signature Theatre’s new Artistic Director. The Artistic Director Search committee, comprised of artists, Signature staff and Board members, voted unanimously to appoint Gardiner after an exhaustive, nationwide search facilitated by AlbertHall&Associates that began in November 2020.
“On behalf of the Board of Directors, we are so excited that Matthew Gardiner will be leading Signature Theatre as the next Artistic Director,” said
Board Chair Dottie Bennett. “Matthew is an extraordinary artist, advocate for inclusiveness, and has a strong vision for Signature’s future and for the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. We are excited to see the innovation, artistry, and excellence he will bring to Signature both on stage and
Felicia Curry as Jacqueline Marie Butler
It is a long, LONG way from Queens to Nigeria, and from Nigeria to Vermont. Such is the series of journeys that form Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl trilogy of single-actor plays. Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre is now streaming the final entry in the series, “Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains,” directed by Associate Artistic Director Paige Hernandez and starring Felicia Curry.
By itself, this is a gorgeous piece of theater well worthy of one’s time. It is also a highly persuasive argument to see the other plays of the trilogy.
In the first two installments, we saw Jennings’ character, Jackie, transition from girlhood in New York to adolescence at the International School in Nigeria. There she endured more than just the typical fish-out-of-water ordeals, code-switching her way through a different world’s idea of the mid-1960s. As this installment begins, we find Jackie returning to the U.S., enrolled at Bennington C