Lewis Center Producer Darryl Waskow Retires after 31 Years at Princeton
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The Lewis Center’s long-time producer for Theater and Dance, Darryl Waskow, retired after 31 years at Princeton on December 4. His retirement was recognized with a celebratory reception on December 3 in, very appropriately, the Drapkin Studio at the Lewis Arts complex.
Waskow joined what was then the combined Program in Theater and Dance in 1993, hired by former Director of the Program and former Lewis Center Chair Michael Cadden. In his remarks at the reception, Cadden, recently retired himself, shared stories from those early days of the program when there was a very small production staff, and he and Waskow did everything from building sets and securing licensing to printing programs and selling tickets. Since then, Waskow has provided staff leadership on hundreds of theater and dance productions in a continually growing season that now presents as many as 35 theater and dance productions a year with a production team of 15 professionals.