Perseverance Theatre’s new artistic director should be familiar to fans of the theater.<\/p>\n
Leslie Ishii, formerly the theater’s interim artistic director, was chosen to fill the position after what was described as an “extensive search” in a release from Perseverance Theatre. Ishii had been the interim artistic director since July after longtime artistic director Art Rotch vacated the position.<\/p>\n
[Perseverance Theatre’s artistic director is leaving this summer<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n “Leslie Ishii has been outstanding to work with these past months,” said Perseverance Theatre Board President Joe Bedard in a press release. “Her vision as a creative leader and her passion for equity and justice will be an amazing voice in Alaska theatre and community.”<\/p>\n Ishii’s credits as a director and actor include appearances on Broadway in “Shogun;” regional theatre in productions of “Manahatta” and “Hold These Truths;” film in “Fame” and “Species;” and television “Jane the Virgin,” “Lost,” “Days of Our Lives,” and “Beverly Hills 90210.”<\/p>\n She also directed season-opening play “Devilfish.”<\/p>\n [“Devilfish”<\/a> opens the season with an original vision<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n Her years of organizational experience include serving as co-chair, organizer, and board member for the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists’ fifth and sixth national ConFest; founder and co-director for the National Cultural Navigation Theatre Project for the sustainability of theatres and artists of color; co-facilitator of the launch of the Theatre Communication Group’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Institute; and core faculty for artEquity.<\/p>\n “I’m excited to continue working with the amazing team at Perseverance Theatre,” Ishii said in a press release. “We’ll be focused on listening and learning from the Alaska community, and striving toward art that is exceptional, equitable and thoughtful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Familiar face fills the role. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":54773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[73],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-54772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-ccw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54772"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=54772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}