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Aaron Kubey Resigns as Director of National Theatre of the Deaf - Behind the Curtain | Frank Rizzo
Aaron Kubey is exiting as executive director and president of the West Hartford-based National Theatre of the Deaf.
Dr. Harvey J. Corson, chairman of the theater's board of trustees, announced Monday that the board accepted Kubey's reisgnation, effective June 30.
The brief three-paragraph statement indicated Kubey's desire "to pursue new endeavors" as the reason for his leaving his position which he held for 3 1/2 years.
The statement said the board "will review and consider its options, including the restructuring of ther organization, as it approaches its 45th anniversary in 2012."
Kubey and Corson could not be reached for comment.
Kubey, a former paralegal in a New York law firm, was previously artistic director of the New York Deaf Theatre.
NDD has gone through financial crises, leadership changes and relocations. Most significantly, it dramatically downsized its operations and eliminated its main-stage programming as it soldiered on with its smaller, school-touring arm, the Little Theatre of the Deaf.
In a 2008 interview, Kubey said he wanted to bring more visibility to the organization, which began in 1967 at the O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford by founder David Hays.
In 1980 it found a home in Chester, but when its fortunes diminished because of an embezzling scandal it relocated to the Colt Building in Hartford. It subsequently moved to its current home at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford.
A big boost for the NTD came in 2008 with a new line item in the state budget. The proposed line items in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget for NTD is the same as last year at $151,484.
At its height, the organization had an annual budget of more than $1 million, and received nearly $700,000 from the Department of Education and several hundred thousand from the NEA.
NTD's budget in 2008 was about $300,000.
"Tree Wise," a co-production between the National Theatre of the Deaf's Little Theatre of the Deaf and the Hartford Children's Theatre, was presented in 2009 at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford. Kubey, staged the work, adapted by Garrett Zuercher from the book by Antoinette Abbomante.
Kubey, who has been deaf since birth, suceeded Paul L. Winters, who served as executive director for four years and has been a board member since 2001.
Kubey, 34, is a 1994 graduate of the Model Secondary School for the Deaf at Gallaudet University in Washington. He worked with NTD's Los Angeles Little Theatre of the Deaf from 1995 to 1997.
He also worked with Deaf West in Los Angeles and the Centerlight Theatre in Chicago before joining the New York Deaf Theatre.
He participated in the Professional Theatre School in Chester in 1995 under the auspices of the National Theatre of the Deaf.
Aaron Kubey is exiting as executive director and president of the West Hartford-based National Theatre of the Deaf.
Dr. Harvey J. Corson, chairman of the theater's board of trustees, announced Monday that the board accepted Kubey's reisgnation, effective June 30.
The brief three-paragraph statement indicated Kubey's desire "to pursue new endeavors" as the reason for his leaving his position which he held for 3 1/2 years.
The statement said the board "will review and consider its options, including the restructuring of ther organization, as it approaches its 45th anniversary in 2012."
Kubey and Corson could not be reached for comment.
Kubey, a former paralegal in a New York law firm, was previously artistic director of the New York Deaf Theatre.
NDD has gone through financial crises, leadership changes and relocations. Most significantly, it dramatically downsized its operations and eliminated its main-stage programming as it soldiered on with its smaller, school-touring arm, the Little Theatre of the Deaf.
In a 2008 interview, Kubey said he wanted to bring more visibility to the organization, which began in 1967 at the O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford by founder David Hays.
In 1980 it found a home in Chester, but when its fortunes diminished because of an embezzling scandal it relocated to the Colt Building in Hartford. It subsequently moved to its current home at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford.
A big boost for the NTD came in 2008 with a new line item in the state budget. The proposed line items in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget for NTD is the same as last year at $151,484.
At its height, the organization had an annual budget of more than $1 million, and received nearly $700,000 from the Department of Education and several hundred thousand from the NEA.
NTD's budget in 2008 was about $300,000.
"Tree Wise," a co-production between the National Theatre of the Deaf's Little Theatre of the Deaf and the Hartford Children's Theatre, was presented in 2009 at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford. Kubey, staged the work, adapted by Garrett Zuercher from the book by Antoinette Abbomante.
Kubey, who has been deaf since birth, suceeded Paul L. Winters, who served as executive director for four years and has been a board member since 2001.
Kubey, 34, is a 1994 graduate of the Model Secondary School for the Deaf at Gallaudet University in Washington. He worked with NTD's Los Angeles Little Theatre of the Deaf from 1995 to 1997.
He also worked with Deaf West in Los Angeles and the Centerlight Theatre in Chicago before joining the New York Deaf Theatre.
He participated in the Professional Theatre School in Chester in 1995 under the auspices of the National Theatre of the Deaf.