American Conservatory Theater

The American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco consists of: a core company that stages an eight-play season in the 1,000 seat Geary Street theater, a conservatory that is one of the nation’s leading Masters in Fine Arts programs for actors, multiple youth and adult acting training programs and a new-play publications program. Founded in 1965, A.C.T. has been led by artistic director Carey Perloff since 1992 and executive director Heather Kitchen since 1996. In the past decade the company has grown into a $20 million a year operation presenting work to over 200,000 audience members annually and employing over 250 full and part time theater artists, technicians and teaching artists. In the summer of 2009 executive director Heather Kitchen left th eorganizxation and with organizational effectiveness support A.C.T. will hire an executive search firm to recruit and contract with a successor to become the organization’s new executive director by June 2010.