HOUSTON: Phases has named Gwen Watkins their new managing director. She succeeds interim managing director David Schmitz, who has served within the place since final September.

“With the thrilling latest announcement of Derek Charles Livingston as our new inventive director and now with Gwen becoming a member of the workforce as managing director, we’re thrilled to be going into the brand new season with new co-leaders who will construct on Phases’s superb legacy,” board president and chair emeritus George C. Lancaster stated in a press release. “Gwen’s ardour for the humanities in Houston, coupled along with her strategic mindset, will contribute considerably to our continued success.”

Watkins, a local Houstonian, involves Phases from the Houston Symphony, the place she served because the chief advertising and marketing and exterior relations officer for 5 years. She additionally beforehand served because the affiliate head of promoting and communications on the Museum of Fantastic Arts, Houston. Watkins holds a BA from Texas A&M College and an MBA from Rice College.

“My skilled journey has supplied me with a mix of expertise inside massive, historic arts nonprofits together with an entrepreneurial mindset,” Watkins stated in a press release. “Considered one of my targets is to additional empower the Phases’s workforce to embody the group’s unimaginable tradition, which can result in collective success for the theatre.”

Phases makes performs and tells tales that invite everybody to dwell extra deeply and love extra boldly. As Houston’s sixth-largest nonprofit performing arts producer, Phases produces roughly 12 productions yearly, drawing over 75,000 guests per season. As of 2023, the theatre’s finances was roughly $6.5 million.

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