Chautauqua Board Appoints Kyle Keogh Interim Chief Executive
The Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees today announced that Kyle Keogh has been appointed Interim Chief Executive of Chautauqua Institution. The appointment is effective June 1, 2025, following Michael E. Hill’s previously announced plans to depart from Chautauqua on May 31 to become President of Randolph-Macon College. Keogh is a proven executive with significant experience in strategy, finance, and technology and an established track record of successfully overseeing transformations, driving growth, and enhancing the...
Chautauqua Theater Company Announces World Premiere of Kate Hamill’s ‘The Light and The Dark’
Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, announced today it will produce the world premiere of Kate Hamill’s newest play, The Light and The Dark. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll, the play will be staged during the final two weeks of the nine-week Summer Assembly (June 22–August 25, 2024). Kate Hamill is an award-winning, NYC-based actor/playwright. In 2017, The Wall Street Journal named Hamill Playwright of the Year,...
Chautauqua Theater Company Announces 2023 New Play Workshops
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, today announced its New Play Workshops for the 2023 season, its first under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll. CTC’s audience will have the opportunity to experience plays at every stage of development by the country’s most exciting playwrights. From a first new play reading to a staged workshop, from a world premiere to a published adaptation,...
Alumni in the News
...Dinner With Friends. Andrea Syglowski (’11) plays Susie in John Patrick Shanley’s Brooklyn Laundry at Manhattan Theatre Club. Yonatan Gebeyehu (’17) cast in the world premiere of Jesús I. Valles’ BATHHOUSE.PPTX Whitney White (’20) directs Ife Olujubi’s Jordans at The Public Theatre’s LuEsther Hall. Around the Country Caitlin Clouthier (’07) plays Edna Buchanan in Dangerous Day at Colony Theater in Miami Beach. Amelia Pedlow (’08/09) played Hester Prynne on Two River Theater’s world premiere of...
History
...new and undiscovered works to the COA including Ward’s The Crucible, Wagner’s Tannhauser and Die Walküre as well as Hanson’s Merry Mount. Hanson’s opera was the crowning achievement of Treash’s years at Chautauqua. Mr. Treash was also instrumental in establishing and expanding the Young Artist Program with grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the New York State Council for the Arts. The present Chautauqua Opera Guild was established in 1974. To this day,...
Movement and Meditation with Monte Thompson
Monte Thompson was a professional dancer, and also spent years as a restauranteur. His life was spent on his feet. Now retired, he is interested in continuing to be able to move easily and gracefully while using breathing and stretching techniques to help quiet his mind and prepare him to face each day with purpose and joy.
Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory Announces 2026 Season
...novels by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The workshops will conclude with a public presentation of excerpts from each new work, followed by a conversation with the creators. Lorèn will remain in residence throughout the remainder of the season, and a presentation of 60 minutes of music from Anne of Green Gables will be given. The final ten days of the company’s season will be dedicated to an orchestral workshop of Herschel Garfein’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, based on the play by the late...
Chautauqua Opera and Conservatory Eyes 2025 Shift to New American Workshops
...and pedagogical priorities at Chautauqua. Our planning efforts and conversations intend to ensure that.” *The Chautauqua Community joins the world in mourning the passing of Marlena Malas on December 4, 2023. We honor her more than four decades of leadership and service to our Opera Conservatory. About Chautauqua Institution Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during...