[NEohioPAL] Karamu House Artistic Director Terrence Spivey Invited To Elite Theatre Organization

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Karamu House Artistic Director Terrence Spivey Invited
To Elite Theatre Organization

For Immediate Release
December 11, 2008
216) 795-7070


Karamu Artistic Director Terrence Spivey has been invited
to become a member of the distinguished theatre organization,
National Theatre Conference. The renown organization is based
in New York and their conferences are held annually in the city.

Mr. Spivey was informed of the news through a formal letter by Mr.
Jack Wright, President of National Theatre Conference. He will be
on the list with illustrious members such as Gerald Freedman
North Carolina School of the Arts), James Houghton (Signature
Theatre), Woodie King (New Federal Theatre), Romulus Linney
Playwright, "Lesson Before Dying"), Lou Bellamy (Penumbra
Theatre)Robert Falls (Goodman Theatre), William Esper
(Renown Meisner Teacher), James Bundy(Dean of Yale School of Drama).

"I am very excited," stated Mr. Spivey. "Someone told me,
these are the kind of organizations you hear and know about
only when you are invited to join them." It is a great honor to
be amongst these giants as I continue to be a student in the field
I love," he says. "You are only good as the people around you. This
membership represents the hard work amongst the Karamu team, the
staff, the creative artist on stage, behind the scenes and the NEO
community."

He will also be featured in the February 2009 Issue of American
Theatre magazine, the annual book Artist and Influence 2008, and
was recently nominated in two categories in Second Annual Nguzo
Saba Awards in Cleveland.

Mr. Spivey's next directing project is Thomas Gibbons "A House With No
Walls." opening January 23 - February 15, 2009 at Karamu House.

NTC
The National Theatre Conference, founded in 1925, is a cooperative
association of distinguished leaders of the American theatre-
university, community, and professional. Membership in the conference
is by invitation only, and is limited to 120. The conference operates
as a theatrical "think thank" and meets annually to review and confer
on matters pertaining to the welfare and development of the theatre
and to honor outstanding achievement of organizations within the American
theatre community.

 www.nationaltheatreconference.org


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