Inspiring award-winning performances from your talent: Crossover applications to business leadership from the theatrical development process with Charles Newell, Artistic Director of Court Theatre in Chicago

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The episode features an interview with Charles Newell discussing the crossover applications of theatrical development to business leadership.

Inspiring award-winning performances from your talent: Crossover applications to business leadership from the theatrical development process with Charles Newell, Artistic Director of Court Theatre in Chicago A CEO's Virtual Mentor Episode 24 Welcome to Episode 24, Season 5, of the Leadership Lyceum: A CEO's Virtual Mentor® . I'm joined in the program today by Charles Newell, the Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director of the renowned and critically acclaimed Court Theatre in Chicago. This interview was recorded in the summer of 2019 as the Court Theatre's production of the play, The Adventures of Augie March , had completed its record-breaking performance run. We had intended to publish this episode early this year in 2020, but COVID hit and it seemed a little bold to put this out at the early stage of the pandemic. The world had other pressing items that deserved attention. But now, in the middle of the holiday season, we've been without live theater and entertainment for nine months, we thought this interview might be not only informative, but also soothing at this stage of the pandemic. This interview is timeless and gets deep into a theatrical production's creative process as…

People in this episode

Guest: Charles Newell

Topics covered

• theatrical development
• business leadership
• creative process
• award-winning performances

Keywords

• Court Theatre
• Chicago
• COVID-19
• live theater

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Adventures of Augie March

Books & works: The Adventures of Augie March, The Triumph of Love, the Joseph Jefferson Award, Man of La Mancha, Caroline, Change, Best Production Jeffs, All My Sons, The Hard Problem, Man in the Ring

Places: Chicago

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