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b'Howard Sherman is a theatre administrator, writer, and advocate. He has been executive director of the American Theatre Wing and the Eugene\\xa0O\\u2019Neill Theater Center, managing director of Geva Theatre, general manager of\\xa0Goodspeed Musicals, and public relations director of Hartford Stage, as well as\\xa0interim director of the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts. He has also held\\xa0administrative positions at the Westport Country Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre\\xa0Club, and Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays.\\xa0\\nSince 2012, he has been the US columnist and a feature writer for The Stage newspaper in London, and in 2018 was named Contributing Editor of Stage\\xa0Directions magazine. His writing has appeared in a number of other publications\\xa0including Slate, The New York Times, The Guardian, and American Theatre magazine.\\xa0\\nHoward frequently consults, writes and speaks on issues of censorship and\\xa0artists\\u2019 rights in both academic and professional theatre and he created the Arts\\xa0Integrity Initiative in 2015 to focus on those efforts. He has delivered keynote\\xa0addresses for, among others, the Educational Theatre Association, KCACTF,\\xa0Florida Association for Theatre Education, and the Texas Educational Theatre\\xa0Association\\u2019s Arts Program Administrators Conference. He was cited as one of the\\xa0Top 40 Free Speech Defenders in 2014 by the National Coalition Against\\xa0Censorship and received the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund\\u2019s \\u201cDefender\\u201d Award\\xa0in 2015.\\xa0\\nA native of New Haven, Connecticut and graduate of the University of\\xa0Pennsylvania, Howard resides in New York with his wife, producer Lauren Doll.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'