Richard Stein – Executive Director, Arts Orange County
Prior to his appointment at Arts Orange County in August, 2008:
- Transformed the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach into a major resident professional theatre over the course of 17 years as its Executive Director
- Came to Orange County in 1987 to serve as Managing Director of the Grove Shakespeare Festival in Garden Grove following a five year stint as Director of Lincoln Theater at the University of Hartford (Connecticut).
- Received degrees from Columbia and Syracuse Universities and returned to Columbia for post-graduate study on a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship.
- Went to Korea on a cultural exchange by the International Theatre Institute-US, has served on the executive committee of the League of Resident Theatres, and is a contributing writer to AMERICAN THEATRE magazine.
- Past Chair of the John Wayne Airport Arts Commission, past President of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals-Orange County Chapter, and past co-Chair (twice) of National Philanthropy Day-Orange County.
- Served on the board of California Arts Advocates, a statewide organization promoting the interests of the arts community.
- Guest lecturer at University of California, Irvine and California State University, Fullerton, and was a commencement keynote speaker at the Laguna College of Art and Design.
- Served as a panelist or site visitor for the New England Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, Western States Arts Federation, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, for which he also produced its State Arts Awards.
- Although his career has largely been in the theatre, Rick’s first post after finishing graduate school was as Executive Director of a local arts agency, Oswego County Council on the Arts, located in Fulton, New York
Pat Wayne – Director of Programs & Arts Education, Arts Orange County
- Pat has been the Director of Programs and Arts Education for Arts Orange County, the county-wide arts council, since 2005.
- She holds a Masters degree in Performing Arts Administration as well as a multiple subject teaching credential.
- She has served as Manager of Community Programs for the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Deputy Director of the Columbus Arts Council (Ohio), Managing Director of MoMing Dance Center (Chicago) and Managing Director of Merrimack Regional Theatre (Boston).
- Her work in arts education includes curriculum design, after-school arts programs, training of teachers and artists, design of arts residencies, and coach of school district arts plans.
- Pat guides the programs of Arts OC including Imagination Celebration and the Creative Edge – a partnership with the California Alliance for Arts Education to build local alliances in each community that can advocate for arts education and support districts as they implement their arts plans.
