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• Founded in 1973 by artists/educators Zaro Weil and Lynn Rubright
• Served estimated total audience of nearly 2 million people
• Tours nationally to major venues and rural communities in 40 states
• Tours internationally, including Canada, Japan, Italy, and Taiwan
• Performs in major venues such as Kravis Center (West Palm Beach, FL), Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Krannert Center (Urbana, IL)
• Performs in hundreds of theaters, schools and community centers
• Conducts classroom residencies which use drama as a tool to explore a wide variety of curriculum areas

• Metro Theater Company received FOCUS St. Louis' 2006 "What's Right With The Region" award for Creating Quality Educational Opportunities for young people. 
• Carol North Received Grand Center Visionary Award for "Outstanding Professional Artist," 2003
• Carol North invited to Taiwan to conduct workshops and lectures on children's theater, 2003
• Invitation to perform at the Taipei International Children's Arts Festival in Taiwan, 2002
• Opened ASSITEJ One World Theater Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center in 2000
• Toured Japan as only invited U.S. company in major international festival 1999
• Won “Excellence in the Arts” award, Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis, 1998
• Won Missouri Arts Award for “outstanding artistic contributions to the state,” 1997
• Recipient of three national awards from the American Alliance for Theater and Education
• Institutes for teachers cited as a “model program” in national publications on arts education
• 23 consecutive years of funding for artistic excellence from the National Endowment for the Arts
• Recipient of Shubert Foundation and Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund grants, among others

                                                  Carol North             Katy Kaufman
                                                Artistic Director      Managing Director

                                         Nancy Tonkins                    Marketing Director
                                         Emily Petkewich                 Education Director / Artistic Associate
                                         David Warren                      Development Director

                                         Sarah Rugo                        Production Manager

                                         Nicholas Kryah                   Resident Artist / Technical Director
                                         Lisamarie Tayborn-Ervin      Office Manager

                             

President
Ellen L. Livingston

Vice President
Katharine D. Rasch, PhD  - Maryville University

Vice President

Gregory D. Stein - Stein Wealth Management

Secretary
Lottie Wade - Community Volunteer

CFO & Treasurer
John D. Weil - Clayton Management Corporation

Kevin Farrell - The Downtown St. Louis Partnership
Susan Fox - Community Volunteer
Nancy Garvey - Cingular Wireless
Camille Greenwald - Forest Park Medical Clinic
Barbara Harris - Parents as Teachers
Samuel Hausfather - Maryville University
Ken Jones - Business Consultant
Mark Kamil - Enterprise Bank & Trust
Helen Lee - TAO + LEE Associates, Inc.
Marcia Kerz - The OASIS Institute
Avis D. May - St. Louis Public Schools/Office of Community Education
Margaret McDonald - Arcturis
Peggy O'Brien - Our Lady of Guadalupe School
Steven Pursley - Robinson School
Candice M. Smith - Boeing

 

Members Emeritus

Zaro Weil and Lynn Rubright, Co-Founders

Arts Partners

Des Lee Fine Arts Education Collaborative

INTERCHANGE
Theatre Communications Group
TYA/USA