RELEASE: July 27, 2007

SOUTH COAST REPERTORY NAMES NEW DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Susan Reeder, SCR’s Former Assistant Director of Development, Returns After Stints in Buffalo and Long Beach

COSTA MESA, Calif. (July 27, 2007)—South Coast Repertory Managing Director Paula Tomei today announced the appointment of Susan C. Reeder as Director of Development following a national search. Reeder held the positions of Assistant Director of Development and Associate Director of Advancement at South Coast Repertory from 1988-94. Most recently Director of Development at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Reeder will start in her new position on August 6.

“We are delighted to welcome Susan back to South Coast Repertory,” said Tomei. “She is a knowledgeable arts fundraiser with 25 years of experience and an enthusiasm for theater that makes her the ideal person to lead our fundraising efforts.”

“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work once again with this nationally-renowned organization that has contributed significantly to the American theater,” said Reeder.

Prior to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Reeder was Director of Development for nine years at the Long Beach Museum of Art and for two years at the Mardan Center for Educational Therapy in Irvine.

Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, under the artistic direction of David Emmes and Martin Benson, is widely recognized as one of the leading professional theaters in the United States. Founded in 1964, SCR is committed to theater that illuminates the compelling personal and social issues of our time, not only on its stages but through its education and outreach programs. While its productions represent a balance of classic and modern theater, SCR is renowned for its extensive new play development program, including the Pacific Playwrights Festival, now in its tenth season. Of SCR’s more than 400 productions, 103 have been world premieres with subsequent stagings achieving enormous success across America and around the world. SCR-developed works have garnered eight Pulitzer Prize nominations with Margaret Edson’s Wit winning the prize in 1999 and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole in 2007.   Located in Costa Mesa, California, in 2002 SCR opened the Folino Theater Center, an expanded three-theater complex that includes the 507-seat Segerstrom Stage, the 336-seat Julianne Argyros Stage and the 94-seat Nicholas Studio.