Eastward Ho by / Sam Hurwitt

Marin Theatre Company announced today that producing director Ryan Rilette will be leaving the company at the end of June to take the post of producing artistic director at Maryland’s Round House Theatre near Washington, DC. Former Aurora Theatre Company managing director Sandra Weingart, who’s worked at MTC over the last year as interim finance director and an administrative consultant, will step in as interim managing director while the company conducts a nationwide search for a permanent successor. Rilette came to MTC four and a half years ago from New Orleans’s Southern Rep Theatre, where he was producing artistic director.

During Rilette’s time at MTC, the theatre increased revenue from $1.8 million in 2008 to a projected $3.2 million in 2012, became a member of the League of Resident Theatres, expanded to six main stage productions each season, established an off-site scene shop, created a $500K artistic and operating reserve fund and ended every season with a profit. The production of Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage in June was the latest of many plays he directed for the company over the last few seasons.

“Ryan and I had talked for years about running a company together, and the resulting partnership here at MTC has been both a prosperous and joyous one,” says artistic director Jasson Minadakis. “Ryan’s leadership has helped propel the theatre to new levels both locally and nationally. He departs a company much stronger for his tenure.”