Our Co-founders

Preston Lane (Artistic Director) is in his 8th season at Triad Stage, having directed over 30 productions including: the Grand Opening production Suddenly Last Summer, the award-winning Hedda Gabler and A Streetcar Named Desire, the acclaimed Tobacco Road and three productions he created specifically for Triad Stage audiences - Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star and Bloody Blackbeard.

Preston was recently honored with the 2008 Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is also the Artistic Partner for Theatre for An Appalachian Summer Festival. He was formerly Artistic Associate at the Dallas Theater Center where his productions included the US premiere of Inexpressible Island (Dallas Observer Best of Dallas Awards: Best Director, Best Production) and The Night of the Iguana (Dallas Morning News: 2002 Top Ten Theatre List). Other productions include: A Tuff Shuffle (National Black Theatre Festival), Overruled (Off-Broadway), Love! Valour! Compassion! (Stage One), and the world premieres of If Only and Get It While You Can (Summer Cabaret).

As a playwright, he is recipient of a grant from the Fox Foundation to develop Wondrous Love. Other adaptations and original works include: Hedda Gabler, Dracula, Mirandolina, Julie’s Dance, Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star, and Bloody Blackbeard and the upcoming Ghosts (Triad Stage); A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center, Sonoma County Rep, Kids Who Care); and Three Weeks After Marriage and Helen! (Summer Cabaret).

He has taught at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, NC A&T University, NC School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, and the Professional Actors Workshop at the Dallas Theater Center. He is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York’s Director’s Project. A native of Boone, NC, Preston received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Richard Whittington (Managing Director) has served as Managing Director of Triad Stage since its inception nine years ago. A native of Dallas, Texas, Rich previously served as Managing Director for the Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts (ECPA), as Artistic Administrator for the Dallas Theater Center and Associate Producer of The Big D Festival of the Unexpected. Prior experience also includes work at the Roundabout Theatre in New York and StageWest in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Rich has a BFA in Acting and Directing from Marymount Manhattan College and an MFA in Theatre Management from the Yale School of Drama. He has taught at Greensboro College and NC A&T University and has been a guest lecturer at UNC Chapel Hill, NC School of the Arts, Wake Forest University and UNC Greensboro. He serves on the board of ARTS North Carolina and the Executive Committee for the North Carolina Arts Council.

 

Board of Trustees

Alan Tutterow
Chair

Kathy Manning
Vice Chair

Kim Gatling
Secretary

Jeff Burgess
Treasurer

Linda Sloan
Immediate Past Chair

At Large
Sandra Alexander
Susan Beard
Durant Bell
Holly Chambers
Hayes Clement
Catherine Froelich
Carrie Griswold
Christina Johnson
Marcus Johnson
Ron Johnson
Preston Lane
Julie Olin
Debby L. Reynolds
Susan Schwartz
Joy Shavitz
Tom Sloan
Bill Soles
Andrew Spainhour
Willie Taylor
Richard Whittington
Otis Wilson

Advisory Council
Judy Wicker, Chair
Ralph Davison
Cathy Gant Hill
Tobee Kaplan
Jake Michel
Dennis Quaintance
Sylvia Samet
Ralph Shelton
Harrison Turner