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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Campo Steps Down at TheaterWorks

Michael G. Albano, president of the board of directors of TheaterWorks, Hartford, announced that Steve Campo has stepped down from his position as executive director.

Campo, who founded TheaterWorks in 1985, guided the company’s business and artistic functions since its inception.  On medical leave since December 2011, Campo elected to leave the theater to focus on his health.

Albano also announced that the board of directors would promptly assemble a search committee for a new executive director composed of volunteer advisors and members of the board.  Until a new executive director is in place, Rob Ruggiero will continue to serve as the theater’s interim artistic director.

Ruggiero has been a partner in the artistic leadership of TheaterWorks since 1993 and has directed more than 40 productions for the theater including High, Take Me Out, Lobby Hero, Rabbit Hole, The Little Dog Laughed, and the current production I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti.  Ruggiero has directed productions at major regional theaters around the country, as well as on Broadway and Off-Broadway.

Under Ruggiero’s artistic direction, TheaterWorks recently announced its five-play 2012-2013 season, which will include Venus in Fur by David Ives, Almost Maine by John Cariani, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, and Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies.  Ruggiero is currently negotiating the rights to the fifth play of the season.
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My Bio

Lauren Yarger has written, directed and produced
numerous shows and special events for both secular and Christian audiences. She co-wrote a Christian musical version of “A Christmas Carol” which played to sold-out audiences of over 3,000 in Vermont and was awarded the 2000 Vermont
Bessie (theater and film awards) for “People’s Choice for Theatre.”

Yarger trained for three years in the Broadway
League’s Producer Development Program, completed the Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Three-Day Training and produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene that toured nationally and closed with an off-Broadway
run.

She was a Fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill
Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She writes reviews of Broadway and off-Broadway theater (the only ones you can find in the US with an added Christian perspective) at http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com/. She
is editor of The Connecticut Arts Connection (http://ctarts.blogspot.com), CT Press Club's award winner of first place for web editing and second place in feature writing for the web in 2012.

She is a contributing editor for BroadwayWorld.com and is a theater reviewer for the Manchester Journal-Inquirer. She previously served as Connecticut theater editor
for CurtainUp.com and as Connecticut and New York reviewer for American Theater Web. Yarger is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and freelances for other sites. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

She is a freelance writer and playwright and member of The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle, The American Theater Critics Association and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She served as a judge for the SDX Awards presented
by the Society of Professional Journalists. She also is a member of the Connecticut Critics Circle (awards committee).

A former newspaper editor and graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Yarger also worked in arts management for the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts,
the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and served for nine years as the Executive Director of Masterwork Productions, Inc. She lives with her husband in West Granby, CT. They have two adult children.

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