Center Theatre Group taps Keller

Neel Keller has been named to the newly created job of associate producer of Center Theatre Group, to help fill a gap caused by the departures of longtime staffers Madeline Puzo and Robert Egan.

Keller will initially assist the artistic director-producer, Gordon Davidson, during a Mark Taper Forum season in which Davidson will direct three of the six productions, followed by the company’s opening of the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

Keller was associate artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse from 1997 to 2000.

-- Don Shirley