Rick Lombardo
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Rick Lombardo March 24, 1959 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | director, producer, writer |
Rick Lombardo (born March 24, 1959) is a prolific and award-winning American theatre director, playwright and adaptor. He is the former Producing Artistic Director of San Jose Repertory Theatre, and the former Artistic Director of New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, Massachusetts. Lombardo is currently the Chair and Artistic Director of the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Kennesaw State University .
He is an Executive Board member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and a Senior Fellow with the American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, actress Rachel Harker.
Lombardo attended and graduated Georgetown University with a BS in Psychology and minor in theatre, and earned the MFA in Directing from the Boston University School for the Arts.
Upon graduation Lombardo was named co-director ad interim of the theatre program at Fordham University's College at Lincoln Center from 1991–1992, where he also taught as an assistant professor of acting and directing for four years.
During this time Lombardo also became the Founding Artistic Director of Stillwater Theater Company in New York City, and later as Artistic Director of The Players Guild in Canton, Ohio.
In 1997 Lombardo became the Artistic Director of New Repertory Theater, then located in Newton, Massachusetts. Over the next 12 years Lombardo would be credited with bringing in a younger audience and leading the company to a larger and more profitable theatrical venue in the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, Massachusetts where the company currently resides.
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