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Terrence Jones
President of the Wolf Trap Foundation
Live Webcast March 26, 2002, 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT
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Terrence Jones has tapped legendary actor Tony Curtis to help launch the 32nd summer season at the Wolf Trap performing arts center just outside Washington, D.C. In August, Curtis makes his musical stage debut in the new version of Some Like It Hot. Curtis co-starred with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon in the 1959 classic flim about two men who witness Chicago’s St. Valentines Day massacre and dress in drag to escape the mob.
Jones has served as president and CEO of the Wolf Trap Foundation since August 1, 1996. He is responsible for the presentation of more than 200 performances each year at Wolf Trap -- America's National Park for the Performing Arts -- and that's just the beginning.
He also is in charge
of educational programs including the Wolf Trap Institute for Early
Learning Through the Arts and the Wolf Trap Opera Company. He has championed artists from around the world -- and commissioned numerous new pieces by, among others, rhythm and blues master Dr. John, jazz great Don Byron and choreographer Randy Duncan.
Prior to joining Wolf Trap, Jones was for 10 years CEO and artistic
director of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Earlier he served as general manger of Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis and assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts at Butler University. He founded the Bradford Repertory Theatre in Vermont.
A frequent speaker and consultant on performing arts management issues,
Jones is a member of the board of directors of the Cultural Alliance of
Greater Washington, the United Arts Organization of Greater Washington
and a founding partner of the Japan/United States Collaboration Performing
Arts project.
In 1994, Jones testified in support of the National Endowment for the
Arts before the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives and served as one of six U.S. delegates to the first International Arts
Programming Network project in Turkey and Greece, an arts exchange
program sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency.
Jones earned both his Bachelor of Science degree in education and his
Master of Arts degree in design and technical theatre from the University of Kansas. He also earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre design
from the University of Georgia in Athens.
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