Goings & comings
Marin Theater Company’s Producing Director Ryan Rilette has been hired away by the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Md., where he’ll be producing artistic director. It’s a step up for the 39year-old Rilette, who worked closely with MTC Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis, directed the company’s current show, “God of Carnage,” and put together the landmark three-theater collaboration that brought Tarrell McCraney’s Brother/Sister Plays trilogy to the Bay Area in 2010, with MTC, ACT and the Magic each doing one of the plays. In addition to its main-stage theater, the Round House has a second, smaller venue for developing new plays.
“It was too good of an opportunity to pass up,” Rilette says. MTC has hired Sandra Weingart, a former managing director at Aurora Theatre who’s been serving in various capacities with MTC, as interim managing director while searching for Rilette’s replacement. He’s the third local theater artist cherrypicked for a bigger job recently. Berkeley Rep Associate Artistic Director Les Waters has taken over as artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Meredith McDonough is leaving her gig as TheatreWorks’ director of new works to become Waters’ associate artistic director in Louisville.
Also changing jobs but not cities: Teddy Witherington, executive director of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus since 1998, and onetime ringmaster of San Francisco Pride Parade, will step down from the chorus job next month to become director of events for Out and Equal Workplace Advocates in San Francisco. The chorus will conduct a search for his replacement.