Michael Burnet, Producer, Director and Actor
From the Artistic Director
Greetings for the 2011 Summer Season!
There is so much to be grateful for based on your overwhelmingly positive response to last season. Not the least of which is the more active participation of my good friend and long-time professional colleague, associate producer, Michael Burnet. Michael and I have been working hand-in-hand on the preparation for the 2011 season since just after the first of this year. Our creative partnership is the kind of collaboration all theatre artists long for. We don’t always agree on individual choices, but that dynamic energy makes for the best kind of ultimate choice. Above all we like each other, as well as trust each other.
It will be such a pleasure for me to “direct” both Comedy of Errors and Hamlet with Michael. And, at the same time, share the stage with him as an actor. This collaborative way of working has been a successful model for centuries–although more recent years have given theater a different, more “director-oriented”, model. Michael and I hope that returning to the more collaborative model of making theatre will allow us to regain some theatrical qualities that may have been misplaced.
All the best to you…and we hope to see you in Green Hill Park and The Hanover Theatre this summer.
Mel Cobb
