A Word from Casey York
Hello!
In June 2010, I began my career in arts management as the Marketing Fellow at Playwrights Horizons. The experience of learning from the best, and the opportunity to stay on full time after my fellowship, set the foundation for my journey in theater management. During my four years in the Marketing and General Management departments, I launched an in-house telesales campaign, liaised with our union partners, reprojected budgets, drafted artist contracts and supported some of my all-time favorite writers to debut their latest creations, including Mr. Burns, Detroit, and Completeness. These formative years at Playwrights set me on a path to become the General Manager and, later, Managing Director at new-work incubator Ars Nova for the past decade.
Now, fourteen years later, I am incredibly honored to return home to Playwrights Horizons as the new Managing Director. Working alongside Adam Greenfield in the leadership of one of our nation’s cultural treasures, and building on Leslie Marcus’s 30-year legacy, is truly a privilege.
Playwrights Horizons invests in people—both the talented performers you see onstage and the dedicated team behind the scenes who make it all possible. It’s no accident that my entire career has been devoted to cultivating and producing new Off-Broadway work in NYC—my passion for this work was sparked at Playwrights Horizons, and it’s here that I first learned to turn that passion into action. That’s what Playwrights does best.
I’m asking you to invest in Playwrights Horizons this season so we can continue to support big ideas, nurture new voices, and bring people together through theater. Your gift will help us chart the next chapter together.
With fresh eyes I can say that we are seizing every opportunity to advance our mission. In a single week this fall we celebrated the opening night of Sarah Mantell’s delicately revolutionary In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot in our newly rechristened Judith O. Rubin Theater; we welcomed the creative team and company of Francesca D’Uva’s hilarious and heartrending This Is My Favorite Song at their first rehearsal; and we headed a few blocks north to don branded ponchos for the savagely entertaining opening night of the transfer production Teeth at New World Stages, passing Tony Award Winning Stereophonic’s Marquee at the Golden Theater on our way.
This is what we do. Who we are. And it’s only possible with your support.
It’s my honor to ask for you to join us in this work. There are a lot of worthy causes out there, and it means everything to us that you are part of our story.
With deep gratitude,
Casey York
Managing Director, Playwrights Horizons