Gwen Watkins. (Picture by Levels Houston.)
HOUSTON: Levels 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 Levels’s superb legacy,” board president and chair emeritus George C. Lancaster mentioned in an announcement. “Gwen’s ardour for the humanities in Houston, coupled together with her strategic mindset, will contribute considerably to our continued success.”
Watkins, a local Houstonian, involves Levels from the Houston Symphony, the place she served because the chief advertising and exterior relations officer for 5 years. She additionally beforehand served because the affiliate head of selling and communications on the Museum of Effective Arts, Houston. Watkins holds a BA from Texas A&M College and an MBA from Rice College.
“My skilled journey has offered me with a mix of expertise inside giant, historic arts nonprofits together with an entrepreneurial mindset,” Watkins mentioned in an announcement. “One in every of my targets is to additional empower the Levels’s workforce to embody the group’s unimaginable tradition, which is able to result in collective success for the theatre.”
Levels 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, Levels produces roughly 12 productions yearly, drawing over 75,000 guests per season. As of 2023, the theatre’s price range was roughly $6.5 million.
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