August 16, 2012
BURNING COAL THEATRE COMPANY’S LOBBY LECTURES SERIES PRESENTS
NCT PRESIDENT AND CEO LISA GRELE BARRIE SPEAKING ON
A UNIQUE AMERICAN ART FORM
Lisa Grele Barrie, current President and CEO of the North Carolina Theatre, will conduct a lecture on MUSICAL THEATRE: A UNIQUE AMERICAN ART FORM on Saturday, September 15th, 2012 at 6 pm. Tickets are $5 or free with anyone holding a ticket to any performance of Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Brigadoon. The lecture will last about 50 minutes and will be held at Burning Coal’s Murphey School auditorium, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Tickets are available for the lecture at the door. More information may be obtained by calling 919-834-4001 or visiting us online at www.burningcoal.org.
ABOUT LISA GRELE BARRIE. Lisa joined North Carolina Theatre as Development Director in 2003 and has championed a dynamic and successful philanthropic culture within the company in partnership with board and staff. Lisa graduated from Bucknell University and her marketing/communications/development experience includes advertising agencies in Boston, sales for The New Yorker Magazine, marketing at Talbots, heading up her own marketing communications consulting firm and development/communications for Gilda's Club Metro Detroit. She was promoted to Managing Director in 2008 and hired as President & CEO in 2009 after a nationwide search. Lisa feels grateful to have found her true calling at North Carolina Theatre and takes great pride in engaging the board, staff and the greater Raleigh community in activities that advance the Theatre’s mission and vision. She passionately believes in the role of the performing arts to build community, harness creativity, and reaffirm the power of our collective human spirit.
ABOUT BURNING COAL’S LOBBY LECTURE SERIES. On the second Saturday of each mainstage production, Burning Coal presents a speaker or other presenter on a topic related to the production currently running at Burning Coal. Sometimes the topic is the play itself, sometimes it relates to the author, sometimes it deals with an issue about which the play is concerned. Past Lobby Lectures have includes Gerald Freedman, original director of Hair (at our 2009 production of Hair), a gospel choir (at our 2010 production of Crowns) and the author of several books on Poker (at our 2010 production of The Seafarer).
For further information about the Lobby Lecture series or about Burning Coal Theatre Company, please contact managing director Simmie Kastner at 919.834.4001 or visit us online at www.burningcoal.org.
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CALENDAR/THEATRE LISTING: Please run in your THEATRE Listings, Calendar and/or other applicable Section(s) as often as possible from receipt through Saturday, September 15, 2012.
A Unique American Artform. Burning Coal Theatre Company’s 2012/2013 Lobby Lectures series begins this fall with Lisa Grele Barrie, current President and CEO of the North Carolina Theatre on Musical Theatre: A Unique American Art Form, Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 6 pm at Burning Coal’s Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Tickets are $5 at the door, or free to anyone holding a ticket to any performance of Burning Coal Theatre Company’s production of Brigadoon. For information: 919.834.4001 or at www.burningcoal.org.
Note: If possible, please include “Burning Coal Theatre Company” as part of the listing.
Thank you.
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Burning Coal Theatre Company is one of Raleigh's small, professional theatre. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and international artists available. We work toward a theatre of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.
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