SARA STACKHOUSE

Speaker at IGNITE: A conference for creative community builders on Sunday, May 20, 2018 at Lesley University Hall in Porter Square.

Sara Stackhouse is the Chair of Theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Before this, she served as executive producer of Actors’ Shakespeare Project for 11 years, producing 48 productions, overseeing school and youth programs, and leading strategy, fundraising, and operations. During her tenure, the company received numerous Elliot Norton Awards, an American Theater Wing award, and a Social Innovation Award. She leads Stackhouse Creative, consulting for Silkroad, Swanee Hunt Alternatives, Boston Baroque orchestra, Massachusetts Cultural Council, ArtsBoston, and others. She is currently the board chair of MASSCreative, the Massachusetts arts advocacy organization. She is also the founder of The Mama Project, a cross-cultural artistic project with female artists from Boston and women from Cape Town townships. The 2018 Mama Project will involve the creation of a play based on personal stories and the water crisis.

Previously, Stackhouse was supervising producer of Inside This Old House for the A&E television network. She served as project manager for cellist Yo-Yo Ma, managing projects and overseeing collaborations with artists like Mark O’Connor, Bobby McFerrin, Mark Morris, Toni Morrison and others. She served as associate producer on eight films, including Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, which received international awards. She was the director of education for NPR’s From the Top, served as a consultant to the Berkshire Institute for Theology and the Arts, produced A Taste of Chanukah for PBS, PRI, and Rounder Records, and was executive producer of the MIT Media Lab’s Toy Symphony.

Stackhouse received a degree in theater from Oberlin College, and lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

Sara on why community is important:

Community is where our shared stories and shared understandings come from, and therefore community is the place our sense of self, purpose and perspective lives. I believe it is through community that we bring forth our best individual and collective selves, and how we figure out how to move forward together.

See Sara at IGNITE: A conference for creative community builders on Sunday, May 20, 2018 at Lesley University Hall in Porter Square.

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Sara Stackhouse from Boston Conservatory featured at IGNITE!

SARA STACKHOUSE

Speaker at IGNITE: A conference for creative community builders on Sunday, May 20, 2018 at Lesley University Hall in Porter Square.

Sara on why community is important:

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