Little Theatre of Charlotte, Inc.

Since June of 2005, Ron has served as Executive Director of Theatre Charlotte, Charlotte's community theatre, which was founded in 1927. Prior to Theatre Charlotte, Ron was Executive Director of Carolinas Concert Association, which presents internationally-renowned symphony orchestras, ballet companies, vocalists and instrumentalists at the NC Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte . Before coming to NC, Ron was the Program Manager for the Community School of the Arts of JCC Metrowest in West Orange, New Jersey. While there, he served as the New Jersey/Staten Island Coordinator of Art for the Heart, an art project for children of 9/11 victims, organized by New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg. He has been a theatre professor at High Point University in High Point, NC (where he headed the theatre program), Marymount Manhattan College in NYC and East Stroudsburg University in East Stroudsburg, PA. He has also worked as Program Director of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) in NYC, which is now a part of Theatre Communications Group (TCG). At ITI, Ron was responsible for providing orientation to US theatre to visiting foreign theatre professionals, as well as coordinating workshops and seminars with such artists as Peter Brook and his company, the Bulandra Theatre Company and Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize-winning playwright from Nigeria. Ron was also the Producing Director of the Piedmont Repertory Company, an Actors Equity summer stock company that operated the Tanglewood Barn Theatre in Clemmons, NC. Ron has directed 70 productions in professional, educational and community theatre. He has a Master of Fine Arts in acting and directing from the University of NC Greensboro. Currently he is a member of the board of directors of the North Carolina Theatre Conference and Vice President of the Metrolina Theatre Association.