TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2008

SUSAN V. BOOTH
Alliance Theatre

Invocation: Susan E. Adams

Introduction: Susan B. Green


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SUSAN V. BOOTH
Alliance Theatre

Susan Booth serves as Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre, recipient of the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award. As a stage director, her work has been seen at theatres including the Alliance, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Repertory, New York Stage and Film, and many others. During her tenure at the Alliance, the theatre has produced the world premieres of The  Color Purple, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and SISTER ACT the Musical, and has launched the national tours or Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Before coming to Atlanta in 2001, Ms. Booth was the Director of New Play Development at the Goodman Theatre, Co-Artistic Director for the City of Chicago’s Professional Summer Theatre, and Associate Artistic Director of Northlight Theatre. She holds degrees from Northwestern and Denison universities and was a fellow of the National Critics Institute. She has held teaching positions at Northwestern and DePaul universities and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently serves as adjunct faculty with Emory University. She is a member of Leadership Atlanta’s Class of 2003 and was cited as a Lexus Leader for the Arts by WABE-FM, “Atlanta’s Best Visionary” by Atlanta Magazine in 2004, one of Atlanta’s “25 Power Women to Watch” in 2006 by Atlanta Magazine, and was chosen as the Best Local Director in the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Readers’ Choice Awards in The Sunday Paper. Ms. Booth serves on the board of the Metro Atlanta Arts and Cultural Coalition, is the co-chair of the City of Atlanta’s One Book, One Community program, and serves as President of the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for regional theater.



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