![]() Porter is also the co-founder of the local theatre company What If? Productions, which is now in its eighth season in Charleston. I am confident I can bring a lot to the company and infuse it with my passion and love of the performing arts.” “I look forward to working with this exceptional team of artists to create something truly unique and beautiful for Charleston. “I am delighted to be a part of such an historical and dynamic theatrical fixture in Charleston,” Porter said. He plans to build on Footlight’s mission to provide quality and affordable community theatre as well as continuing to promote the theatre as a unique space for Charleston special events and performances. Now, Porter will take on the role of leading one of Charleston’s most prestigious community theatres. Porter maintained ties to local theatre and served as interim executive director of OnStage Atlanta.Īfter several years in Atlanta, Porter relocated to Charleston, working as media director of Davis Advertising before returning to his theatrical roots and joining Charleston Stage. He then co-founded a theatre company in Michigan before relocating to Atlanta to pursue a career in media advertising. After graduation, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, as a member of Playhouse on the Square’s Resident Acting Company. Porter has been performing on stage since childhood, earning a bachelor’s degree in theatre in performance from Purdue University in Indiana. Under Broadwater’s leadership, The Footlight Players expanded its theatrical season while providing opportunities for other theatres and performance groups to rent the Queen Street theatre during its off-weekends and summer season. ![]() She also was a member of Footlight’s board of directors before taking on the executive director title. Porter replaces Jane Broadwater, who retired in January after serving three years as executive director. Porter spent the last decade on staff at Charleston Stage, most recently as director of administration where he oversaw daily operations of the professional theatre company. What began as a small group has become for Charleston a theatrical tradition, built and strengthened over many years by hundreds of willing hands, the priceless gifts of time and toil, and by faith, enthusiasm and talent.The Footlight Players has hired long-time thespian Brian Porter as executive director of Charleston’s longest-producing theatre company. In 1986, after another dramatic renovation, The Footlight Players moved into the old cotton warehouse at 20 Queen St., where it remains to this day. ![]() For the next 54 years, The Footlight Players continued to annually produce a number of regular season productions, both at the Dock Street Theatre and at Footlight. The series was such a success and drew such a following that The Footlight Players formally organized and incorporated in the fall of 1932. Commander Charles Russell Price at the Charleston Navy Yard. The Footlight Players was ceremoniously launched in 1931 with a series of one-act plays directed by Lt. Two Tickets to a MainStage Production for Any Thursday,.Pre-Show Dinner for Two Beginning at 5:00pm.Located in the heart of downtown Charleston, Charleston Stage's venue, the Historic Dock Street Theatre, is surrounded by great restaurants and convenient parking. Their acclaimed, full-scale productions light up the stage with stunning scenery, dazzling costumes, and brilliant lights! Productions feature a Resident Professional Acting Company and over 100 professional actors, singers, dancers, guest designers, choreographers, scenic artists, and technicians. Charleston Stage is South Carolina's largest professional theatre company in residence at the Historic Dock Street Theatre, "America's First Theatre." Now celebrating its 41st Season, Charleston Stage produces a full season of plays and musicals and has one of the largest and oldest arts Education Programs in the region.
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