FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE....February 16, 2004
Contact David Turner, 518-798-7479
THEATRE FESTIVAL APPOINTS NEW OFFICERS FOR
2004
FIRST FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE HIRED
AS ATF GENERAL MANAGER
As the
Adirondack Theatre Festival enters its 10th season, the Board of Directors
has recently appointed new officers for the 2004 year. David J. King, the
General Manager of the Lake George RV Park and a Founder of ATF, will
serve a two year term as Board President for 2004 and 2005. This is the
first time that the Board President position has been separated from ATF
Producing Director David Turner, who has held the positions concurrently
since the Festival’s founding in 1994. Board members Kathy Reed of Glens
Falls and Patty Malone Kircher of Queensbury will serve one year terms as
Treasurer and Secretary, respectively.
The region’s professional summer theater has recently
hired its first full time year-round staff member, Lisa Janssen, to be
General Manager. Lisa, a New Jersey native, has an education and theatre
background. She received her undergraduate degree from East Stroudsburg
University in Pennsylvania. After teaching in a classroom for four years,
she had the opportunity to tutor child actors for Broadway shows in NYC
and on tour including ANNIE, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, THE RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS
SPECTACULAR, and the film “Unfaithful.” Janssen states, “It was like a one
room schoolhouse. Besides teaching I also had to work as the ‘wrangler’ on
each show, preparing the kids for the performance, guiding them on stage,
checking their make-up and costumes, and making sure they didn’t collide
with other actors or the scenery”.
Janssen met her husband Dan, a former Technical
Director for ATF and Carpenter for Adirondack Scenic Inc., on the National
Tour of ANNIE and together they moved to Diamond Point where they now
reside. She has taught at North Warren Central School for two years while
obtaining her masters degree in Education from Plattsburgh State
University and for the past two summers was the office manager for Camp
Echo Lake in Warrensburg.
“ATF has had to postpone so many organizational needs
for the last several years while we concentrated on helping get a theater
built in Glens Falls” says Board President David King. “But last summer we
were stretched to the breaking point, and it was clear we couldn’t run
this organization, which has grown so fast in its first decade, with no
year-round staff. Lisa’s experience in the Theater, Education and our
region make her a great addition to ATF and we look forward to our
audience and community getting to know her.”
The Adirondack Theatre Festival’s tenth season will run
June 17 – July 31 at the new Charles R. Wood Theater on Glen Street in
Downtown Glens Falls. Discount season subscriptions will go on sale in
early April. To join the Festival’s mailing list and be among the first to
receive a season brochure call 798-7479 or go to
www.ATFestival.org.
ATTENTION MEMBERS OF THE PRESS!
High-quality digital images including a photo of Lisa Janssen can be
downloaded directly from our website throughout the season!
www.ATFestival.org/press
