Nataki Garrett to Leave Oregon Shakes Amid Emergency Fund Drive
The artistic director’s departure caps a 4-year period of extraordinary promise, crisis, and controversy, while the festival seeks help with its next steps.
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Oregon Shakes Restructures, Scales Back With Eye to Future
Managing director David Schmitz will depart, with artistic director Nataki Garrett taking the role of interim executive artistic director and Anyania Muse chief operating officer.
OSF Promotes Anyania Muse to Managing Director
After a year as director of the theatre’s director of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA), she will move up to both oversee a wider variety of operations and to infuse IDEA values throughout the organization.
United States Artists Names 2022 USA Fellows
DeLanna Studi, Machine Dazzle, Marga Gomez, Nataki Garrett, and Lars America Jan make up the theatre and performance fellows.
Offscript: Nataki Garrett, Shaking Up and Stabilizing Oregon Shakes
This week we talk to the leader of the West Coast powerhouse about the tough years just page and what lies ahead.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Announces New Leadership Structure
Two new associate artistic directors, Scarlett Kim and Mei Ann Teo, join Evren Odcikin in three-person team that will help reimagine the theatre’s repertory, media, and new-works offerings.
‘Why Is Every Single Thing I Say a Problem?’
Artists of color have been placed in leadership positions across the U.S., but are they actually getting the respect and support they deserve?
If a Theatre Company Does It, Is It Theatre?
Beyond Zoom readings, companies are finding new forms and collaborators, and reaching audiences far beyond any they could serve in person.
Nataki Garrett, Maria Manuela Goyanes Receive BOLD Leadership Grants
Leaders at OSF and Woolly Mammoth will each receive $500,000 and will join a distinguished cohort of female leaders.
Taking the Heat, and Leading Through Crises, at Oregon Shakes
In her and her team’s first season at OSF, Nataki Garrett has faced COVID and wildfires, challenges that have only intensified their ties to the community.
