#73 Arts Innovation Chat: Michael Rosenberg - A Few Things - 29 Min

We discussed a number of things including:1. Michael's journey to McCarter2. Intersection of arts and innovation3. Pandemic innovations at McCarter and theatres nationwide4. Post pandemic vision and trends5. Ride the Cyclone musicalMichael has been the Managing Director at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton since 2018. McCarter’s mission is to create stories and experiences that enliven minds, expand imaginations and engage communities.  This year, work created by McCarter is traveling to other cities like Boston and New York, and next year to Seattle, New York, and Washington, DC.  From 2009 – 2018 Mike was the Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego where he helped develop and produce dozens of new plays and musicals - 9 of which transferred to Broadway, 3 to the London's West End, and 3 that toured Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, and South Korea.  During his tenure, the Playhouse was awarded multi-million dollar grants from the NEA and the Wallace and Irvine Foundations to accelerate experiments meant to develop multi-ethnic projects, expand opportunities for family engagement and build the capacity to sustain community arts programs in off-site locations.Previously, Mike was Co-Founder and Executive Director of Drama Dept., a New York non-profit theater collective, where for fourteen years he produced new works by the likes of Douglas Carter Beane, Warren Leight, Isaac Mizrahi, Paul Rudnick, and David & Amy Sedaris.He is a member of the NJ Governor's Arts and Culture Recovery Task Force and a Trustee of Cubing USA, the non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the speed cubing community in the United States.