Ryan Rilette, our new Managing Director, has been working part-time and off-site for a while now, but he is now out of New Orleans and working full-time at MTC.

He joins MTC after six years as Producing Artistic Director at Southern Rep Theatre, the premiere professional theater of New Orleans. During his tenure, Southern Rep underwent the largest period of sustained growth in its history, and was honored with more awards than any theater in the region, including “Theater of the Year” in 1995 and the Governor’s Arts Award for “Outstanding Arts Organization” in 2007.

For the past two years, Rilette has served as Secretary of the Executive Board of the National New Play Network. He is also the co-founder and former Executive Artistic Director of Rude Mechanicals Theatre Company in New York, and a former professor at Tulane and Loyola Universities. He recently directed Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, adapted by Sarah Ruhl, at the Zeum Theatre with the third year MFA students at ACT, his alma mater.

We are all very excited to have Ryan aboard!