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The Executive Director of The Bardavon in Poughkeepsie and UPAC (The Ulster Performing Arts Center) in Kingston, Chris Silva, is the guest. Chris discusses his long history in running theaters in San Francisco and in New York before relocating to the Hudson Valley back in the mid-1990’s.
A major force in the regional theater movement, in 1972 Chris graduated from San Francisco State College and immediately founded the Eureka Theatre in a San Francisco commune. While he was artistic director, the theater presented west coast premieres of works by Sam Shepard, Athol Fugard, Bertolt Brecht and Mark Medoff, among others. The theater went on to present the world
premiere of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America”. Chris moved to New York City in 1978, and was hired by Joe Papp’s Public Theatre which resulted in a long and fruitful relationship with that institution. He joined The Bardavon as Executive Director in 1994 and soon managed UPAC as well.
