Feb 6th, 2012
Dan Lombardo, dramaturg since 2005 at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and leader of its 3-year-old WHAT Lab for developing new plays, has been named the company's new artistic director. Lombardo will select and oversee the summer season of plays on the Julie Harris Stage on Route 6 and at other smaller venues the company may use.
The choice of Lombardo to lead the theater portion of programming at the state-of-the-art building WHAT opened in 2007 was announced Saturday morning after agreement by its board of directors.
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"I'm feeling extremely fortunate. I'm feeling like this is exactly where I want to be. This is exactly what I want to be doing," Lombardo said in a phone interview Saturday. "(Executive Director) Mark Hough and the board have assured me that the commitment is there to do theater in the great tradition