David Silberman and Gary Alan Wright in a local favorite, Greater Tuna, 2002
Photo by Alan Pomatto
Jan. 23, 2009 - Saturday night the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce is holding its 107th Installation Dinner at the Miners Foundry and the Foothill Theatre Company is proud to have two honorees in attendance. Karen Marinovich, Executive Director will be inducted as a board member and Gary Alan Wright will be receiving the coveted Dr. Leland and Sally Lewis Performing Arts award.
FTC's Executive Director, Karen Marinovich has been instrumental in FTC's widely publicized efforts to stay afloat. The efforts have paid off because FTC will continue with a ‘Demi' season until FTC has a chance to earn and manage their way out of the financial crisis that has threatened the closure of the only professional theatre company in our area. Karen is also on the Center for Non-profit Leadership (CNL) Board of Directors, including three committees: chair of the Program Development Committee, co-chair of the Collaboration Cross Sector Partnership Committee and she serves on the Curriculum Committee. And if that's not enough, she recently joined the Nevada County Celtic Society.
Gary Alan Wright is a local favorite with the Foothill Theatre Company. He has been with FTC since 1995 and before that he was affiliated with the Sacramento Theatre Company, Fantasy Theatre, the B Street Theatre and the Colorado and Oregon Shakespeare Festivals. He also contributed his considerable talents to an FTC cultural exchange with the Maxim Gorky Drama Theatre in Vladivostok, Russia that began in 1994. The international collaboration ended in 1996 because of cost and personnel constraints. Gary has most recently played one of his favorite roles, Hamlet, in FTC's fall production of the same name. He also appeared as Father Flynn in the 2008 FTC production of Doubt, now a major motion picture and Oscar contender. He is also an accomplished writer and has adapted two novels to plays: The Diary of a 49er and Dracula - both performed in 1999. In 2007 he wrote a new play, Evermore, the story of Edgar Allan Poe which thrilled audiences and packed the theater.
For more information about the Foothill Theatre Company, go to www.foothilltheatre.org or call 530-265-9320. Box office 530-265-8587.
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