Summer Shorts: Homegrown Edition - June 08 - June 25, 2023
City Theatre
Crew Who's Who
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MARGARET M. LEDFORD
Artistic Director
Margaret hails from Chattanooga where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Speech from the University of Tennessee. She has directed plays, musicals, and readings all over South Florida, including Promethean Theatre (resident director for eight years), Palm Beach Dramaworks, GableStage, Florida Reparatory Theatre, Naked Stage, New Theatre, Delray Beach Arts Garage, Mosaic Theatre, Caldwell Theatre Company, Florida Stage, Island City Stage, Thinking Cap Theatre, and Theatre Lab. She studied Cubist-Expressionistic scenography post-WWI at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Margaret is a National Reviewer for the National YoungArts Foundation in theatre and musical theatre, a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and a co-founder and Creator at Mangrove Creative Collective. An eight-time Carbonell Award nominee for Best Director and winner of multiple Silver Palm awards for Direction, she has been City Theatre's Artistic Director since 2017.
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GLADYS RAMÍREZ
Executive Director
Gladys Ramirez is City Theatre's new Executive Director as of October 2022. She began her career with City Theatre as an actor and director for nearly a dozen iterations of "Shorts" productions. After a five year stint working in museums, Gladys returned to theater to bring her formidable creative and administrative skills to the company. Formerly, as Director of Audience Engagement at the Norton Museum of Art, she produced Art After Dark, the Norton’s signature public program welcoming over 20,000 guests annually, and managed its virtual presence which received over 50,000 unique views annually. A proponent of equity and access in the arts, she founded the Norton’s Staff Diversity Committee. Previously, she developed Community Engagement and Education partnerships and events at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Gladys is a proud graduate of Miami’s New World School of the Arts with her B.F.A. in Theater.
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