Where is the NEA headed? Rocco tells all.
If you’ve wondering what Ex-Commerical Producer, former head of Jujamcyn Theaters and still new-to-the-gig National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman has in store for his government-funded arts agency, you might want to check out this article.
In it, Rocco talks about how long he plans on playing in the political sandbox, what he wants his NEA legacy to be, and how hard it is to remember that arts and politics are like vampires and musicals. . . they just don’t work very well together, but that doesn’t stop people from trying.
Read the full article from the Hartford Courant here.
Keep on fighting, Rocco. We’ll send you all the cloves of garlic you need.
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