On today’s podcast, we head over to Philadelphia Theatre company to talk about the return to season programming with new Producing Artistic Director, Paige Price, who enters her second season with a more than qualifying resume. Stay Tuned!

ABOUT PAIGE PRICE

Paige begins her second season at Philadelphia Theatre Company, after spending ten years as Executive Artistic Director at Theatre Aspen in Colorado, where she created a new work festival as well as a professional apprentice program for aspiring students in the field. After years spent as a Broadway performer, she began producing events, television shows and theatre in the U.S. and abroad. Price was the 1st Vice President of Actors’ Equity Association, the national union for actors and stage managers, from 2006-2017 and was first elected to its board in 2000. She is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Theatre Subdistrict Council, which awards cultural arts grants to NYC theatre organizations, a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women and Vice-President of NAMT, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.  Price is currently a member of the Tony Award Nominating Committee. As a performer, she starred in the original cast of Broadway’s Saturday Night Fever as well as the original cast of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Smokey Joe’s Café. Her professional career encompasses film (All The Right Moves, The News Kids); television, radio, web, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, and national and international tours. In 2017, she stepped back onto the boards to star in Denver’s Curious Theatre production of Sex With Strangers.  Her directing credits include several musical productions, concerts and readings, and she recently directed a live television broadcast starring Kelli O’Hara and Matthew Morrison for the WOWOW network in Tokyo, Japan. Proud Member, AEA.  Associate Member, SDC.

ABOUT SWEAT

Reading, Pennsylvania. A valley town of fiercely proud families who worked for generations in the plants and factories of a thriving county seat. Unions rule, well-paying jobs are coveted and politics are personal. As industries disappear, the men and women of Reading are rendered powerless as they watch their income, legacy and relationships follow suit. Based on Lynn Nottage’s extensive research in Reading, Sweat shares the fear, tragedy and hopefulness of a community being forced to accept inevitable change.

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http://philadelphiatheatrecompany.org or http://philatheatreco.org