Teresa Eyring

Teresa Eyring, Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), was our speaker on February 26, 2009.

Teresa Eyring joined TCG as executive director in March 2007.  Ms. Eyring has been an executive in theatres around the U.S. for over twenty years.  Prior to joining TCG, she served as managing director of the Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) in Minneapolis where she led a planning process that resulted in a $30 million capital campaign, along with major expansions in programming and facilities.  Eyring began her theatre career as director of development for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C in 1983.  She completed an MFA in theatre administration at the Yale School of Drama between 1986 and 1989.  From 1989-1993, she was assistant executive director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where she handled artist contracts, play commissions, and oversaw a $5 million theatre renovation project.  From 1994-99, she was managing director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, where she spearheaded completion of an $8 million capital campaign and oversaw the construction and transition to a new 24,000 square foot theatre facility on Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts.  She was named as one of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 under 40 in 1998 and as a ‘Woman to Watch” by the Twin Cities Business Journal in July 2005.  She has been the chief negotiator on numerous collective bargaining agreements.  She is currently active as a board member of the Performing Arts Alliance and served on the steering committee for the National Performing Arts Convention.  Her past volunteer affiliations include service as chairwoman of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, board member of WYBE-TV, executive committee member of the League of Resident Theatres; board member and Treasurer of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts; and board member of Intermedia Arts.  Eyring holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Yale School of Drama.