After a thorough search, SCA is thrilled to announce that Dan Kerr-Hobert will join Snow City Arts as Program Director in July 2021. Since 2008, Dan has been a Theatre Artist-In-Residence at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Rush University Children’s Hospital. He is an ensemble member of The Neo-Futurists Theater, a long-time collaborator of Blair Thomas and Company, and the former Artistic Director of Sans-culottes Theater and Manifest Theatre. As a prolific writer, director, deviser, performer, and puppet designer, his work has been seen at The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, La Monnaie de Munt in Belgium, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, The Wooly Mammoth Theatre in Washington D.C., the Detroit Institute of Art, NJPAC, Steppenwolf Theatre, the Pritzker Pavilion, HERE Arts Center in New York, Dad’s Garage in Atlanta and The Actors Theatre of Louisville. Additionally, he has taught at The Theatre School at DePaul University and the Art Institute of Chicago. Dan is an alum of the Acting program at The Theatre School at DePaul University.

“I am delighted to know that Dan Kerr-Hobert is Snow City Arts’ new Program Director. I have known Dan since he began teaching with Snow City Arts more than ten years ago. Dan is an extraordinary teacher whose loyalty to the concept of student-centered teaching and student self-determination makes him an exemplar of our best practices. His vision, based squarely on our core mission, will help steer Snow City Arts into a future that will include the virtual instruction we started during the pandemic alongside new and exciting partnerships and a continued commitment to our anti-racism work and work towards equitable practices in general.” Eric Elshtain, Snow City Arts Interim Program Director, and former Teaching Artist.

As Snow City Arts welcomes a new leader into the fold we look forward to enhancing our programmatic efforts across our current hospital sites, as well as exploring new possibilities for our virtual learning initiative.

Dan Kerr-Hobert assumes this leadership role following Veronica Stein’s transition to her role as Woman’s Board Executive Director of Learning and Public Engagement at Art Institute of Chicago. Veronica was the Program Director for two years. Under her leadership, among many other accomplishments and goals, our organization enacted new partnerships with the Chicago Public School system and Cook County Juvenile Probation, developed and implemented organizational and art instructional anti-racism efforts, steered through the pandemic with robust video-based and virtual instruction, and set the stage for future expansion for in-person and virtual learning.

Please take a moment to wish Dan well as he steps into his new role by sending a welcoming or congratulatory note to dan@snowcityarts.org.

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