LORT

TUCSON, ARIZ.: This past May, the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) reluctantly went ahead with a planned semi-annual meeting in Tucson--despite the controversial passing of SB1070, a bill signed into Arizona law that lets state police perform checks on a "reasonable suspicion" that a person might be an illegal immigrant and make arrests for not carrying ID papers.

A large percentage of Equity work weeks are provided each year by not-for-profit theatres, primarily through League of Resident Theatres and developing-theatre contracts, which offer a combined 36 percent of Equity actor employment.

Susie, as president of the League of Resident Theatres, you've now taken on professional development of practicing managers as part of LORT's mission.

Outside Louisville, he gained a national reputation for his quietly effective work in the formation and development of the League of Resident Theatres.

The League of Resident Theatres is founded, with Peter Zeisler as its first director.

The League of Resident Theatres has a new president: Susan Medak, who was sworn in in April, succeeding Michael Maso of Boston's Huntington Theatre Company.

Michael Maso, managing director of Boston's Huntington Theatre Company and president of the League of Resident Theatres; Shakespeare and Company of Lenox, Mass.; and Wheelock Family Theatre of Boston are among the winners of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Commonwealth Awards, the state's highest honor in the arts, humanities and sciences.

An eight-year veteran of ACT, Kitchen is a former production manager for Theatre New Brunswick and a current member of the executive board of the League of Resident Theatres.

Rosenblum, who formerly was the executive director of Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn., founding president of National Corporate Theatre Fund and president of the League of Resident Theatres, will have served three seasons at TFANA in fulfillment of the agreement under which he was hired.