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Jeanie O’Hare
The Yale School of Drama has announced that Jeanie O’Hare will serve as chairperson of the school’s playwriting department beginning on July 1, 2012. O’Hare was appointed to a three-year term, according to a press release issued on Monday. O’Hare will succeed Paula Vogel, who’ll vacate the position but remain a member of the school’s faculty.
Yale’s press release indicates that “O’Hare comes to Yale School of Drama from the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she has served as Company Dramaturg since 2005.”
James Bundy, dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic director at the Yale Repertory Theatre, was quoted in the press release as saying, “Jeanie O’Hare has distinguished herself as a unique and profoundly accomplished theatre artist. … For nearly twenty years, she has cultivated relationships with playwrights from around the world and developed work that has been produced and celebrated internationally.”
O’Hare was quoted as saying, “Over the last four years Paula Vogel has been raising the bar of Yale playwriting ever higher, inspiring a brilliant cohort of writers. I hope by developing closer professional ties and mapping shifts in theatre practice I can lead the playwriting program towards a new era in theatre making; encouraging young artists to become the kind of industry-ready playmakers who can really make a difference.”