CalArts theater dean resigns

Susan Solt, dean of the school of theater at CalArts and the school’s Center for New Theater, has resigned. She will take a position on the faculty and work as dramaturge in the theater writing program headed by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.

Solt founded the Center for New Theater, the professional producing arm of the theater school, which staged an unconventional, all-female “King Lear” in downtown Los Angeles in 2002. “Lear” later went to the Frictions Festival in Dijon, France.

Her resignation will have some impact on the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater at the new Walt Disney Concert Hall, since the center is slated to put up one piece a year. Solt’s departure will not interrupt that schedule, which kicks off in April.

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-- Scott Timberg