He comes in at a time of expansion for Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Santa Cruz Shakespeare will be stronger than ever with Lorne as our Managing Director.”ĭechtenberg will be overseeing the financial aspects of the organization, including helping to expand the donor base, overseeing grants, heading human resources, overseeing operations at venues and building bridges with community partners such as the Homeless Garden Project. I look forward to this community getting to know him. “He brings artistic excellence, financial acumen, and a refreshingly positive and collaborative attitude. “I’m thrilled to have Lorne joining our team,” he wrote. Pasternak praised the hire in a statement. “They’re just brilliant, brilliant writing,” he said.ĭechtenberg will be half of what he calls a “two-headed leadership team” alongside Artistic Director Charles Pasternak, whom he has already met with. “As a lifelong lover of Shakespeare, when the opening at Santa Cruz appeared, it seemed like a great fit so I went ahead and applied,” he said.īecause of its personal impact on him, Dechtenberg is a big fan of “Twelfth Night,” but he loves all of Shakespeare’s works, especially his sonnets. “Ever since, it’s been a shared love of both of ours,” he said.ĭechtenberg learned about the Santa Cruz Shakespeare position through a message board and was thrilled to be considered for it. Productions put on by Bluegrass Opera have included Alfred Uhry’s “LoveMusik,” a musical about the romance between German composer Kurt Weill and Austrian singer Lotte Lenya featuring renditions of famous Weill compositions such as “Speak Low” and “Alabama Song,” and Ernst Bacon’s “A Tree on the Plains.” Since 2008, he has served as the founding executive and artistic director of Bluegrass Opera & Music Theatre, a Lexington-based nonprofit that puts on local theater productions in Kentucky. He has had positions as interim director for Maysville Players at the Washington Opera House in Maysville, Kentucky creative director at Upbeat Arts in Lexington and music director at Lexington Children’s Theatre. “They’re on the precipice of big new developments - the expanded season and all of the stuff that’s going on there - and Santa Cruz is very exciting.”ĭechtenberg received a musical arts doctorate and master’s degree in music at the University of Kentucky as well as a second music master’s degree at the University of Houston. 18, and he expressed his excitement in a video interview with the Sentinel from Kentucky. He will begin his on-the-ground work in Santa Cruz starting the week of Dec. Now he has a new role to play: Managing director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare.ĭechtenberg will be leading the financial side of the 42-year-old company, and his promotion was announced Nov. That is certainly true of Lorne Dechtenberg, who has served as a musician, nonprofit director and music director in the world of theater in his home state of Kentucky. SANTA CRUZ - In William Shakespeare’s “As You Like it,” Jacques famously proclaims “One man in his time plays many parts.”
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