The World Turned Upside Down: Managing the Theater of the Future
Date : Thursday, September 4, 2025
Duration : 1 hours 30 minutes
September 4 – October 23, 2025 (Six Selected) Thursdays, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
No Class September 25 or October 2
Thursdays, September 4 – October 23, 2025
7:30 PM–9:00 PM On Zoom
$275 / $250 for EDCJCC Members, Theater J Donors and Subscribers
Registration Deadline: Thursday, August 28, 2025
In only two decades, Theater J’s Managing Director David Lloyd Olson has witnessed and participated in theater from every angle. In this behind-the-curtain class, David invites both theater professionals and enthusiasts to examine American and European theater models of the past and present, to ask ourselves what the elements and challenges of theater management truly are, and to explore how we go about defining mission, developing strategy, and establishing our place in a rapidly transforming world.
David Lloyd Olson made his stage debut at age five at the Marcus JCC of Atlanta preschool and is now proud to be one of the leaders of the nation’s largest professional Jewish theater. He most recently served as managing director of Quintessence Theatre Group in Philadelphia where he oversaw the organization’s largest ever fundraising campaign and the doubling of their annual foundation support. He was
manager of the executive office and board engagement at the Shakespeare Theatre Company where he supported the transition of the theater’s artistic directorship from Michael Kahn to Simon Godwin. He has also held positions at Arena Stage, GALA Hispanic Theatre, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and Pointless Theatre. He was an Allen Lee Hughes management fellow at Arena Stage, a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Valmiera, Latvia, and the recipient of two DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Fellowship program grants. He proudly serves on the board of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre (alljewishtheatre.org) and the board of Adas Israel Congregation.
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