Lincoln Center Theater announces complete executive team in anticipation for the 2025-26 season

March 28, 2025
Lincoln Center Theater announces complete executive team in anticipation for the 2025-26 season

Lincoln Center Theater’s Board of Directors (Kewsong Lee, Chair), incoming LCT Artistic Director Lear deBessonet and Executive Producer Bartlett Sher have announced the completion of appointments for the new executive leadership team that will begin their tenures to coincide with the upcoming 2025-2026 season. Maria Manuela Goyanes (currently Artistic Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company) has been named Artistic Director of LCT3 and will also take on the role of Producer.  Mike Schleifer (currently Managing Director, Alliance Theatre) will be Lincoln Center Theater’s Managing Director.  Goyanes and Schleifer join the newly appointed deBessonet, Sher (Executive Producer) and Nicole Kastrinos (Producer), alongside Naomi Grabel (Executive Director of Development & Planning), to complete the LCT executive leadership team. The appointment of Goyanes signals an expanded vision for LCT3 and the Claire Tow Theater.  LCT3 is dedicated to producing new work by the next generation of theater artists with a goal to bring new audiences to Lincoln Center Theater.  Press contact: Nicholas Buchholz/Lincoln Center Theater (212/501-3201)...