Sara Garonzik
SARA GARONZIK (Producing Artistic Director, Philadelphia Theatre Company) has directed and produced for Philadelphia Theatre Company since 1982, and introduced more than 130 world or regional premieres of major new American plays and musicals to Philadelphia including new work by Terrence McNally, Jeffrey Hatcher, Christopher Durang, John Henry Redwood, Tracey Scott Wilson, Naomi Wallace and Bruce Graham, among others. In 1991 she was named to the Philadelphia Theatre Company Board of Directors. Other service has included: Board Member of ArtReach and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance (GPCA); theater panels for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio State Councils on the Arts; theater panels for The Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, the McKnight Foundation Advancement Awards for Playwriting and the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and as a judge for the 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is listed in "Who's Who of American Women" and was named one of Business Philadelphia's and Philadelphia Magazine's "People to Watch." She has received the Award of Honor from the Alumnae Association of the Philadelphia High School for Girls and in 2006 received the President's Award from the Philadelphia Young Playwrights. Last fall she received the 2007 Achievement Award from the American Association of University Women, an honor she proudly shared with Dawn Staley and Terry D'Alessandro. In June 2008, she received the first Arts Pioneer Award created by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown. She currently serves as a Board Member of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia, the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund where she heads up the Grants Committee and on the advisory board of PlayPenn, a new play development project. Bio as of November, 2009. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Regional Theatre - October, 2009 - Watch now.