Tina Coyneshith. .
Chapel Hill, NC: After a national research, Playmakers Repertory Company announced that Tina Coyneshith has joined the company as director of external relations, a new position which takes care of the work of the former managing director NICHOO GON Maton (The rest of the positions of the position is now fulfilled by the director of operations of the theater, currently Maura Murphy). In this role, Coyneshith will serve as an external oriented administrator oriented for the game leaders, working in close partnership with the artistic director Producing, Vivienne Benesch.
In this new role, Coyneshith will supervise all aspects of external affairs, including income, marketing, communications and audience development strategies to advance a unified strategic vision for the organization. It produces nearly three decades of experience in development and fundraising at the Arts and Sciences Foundation of UNC-Chapel Hill, Ackland Art Museum and Duke University Nasher Museum of Art.
“I am delighted to join the team of playmakers Repertory Company, a real local treasure that I have loved since I was a graduate student in Carolina,” Coyneshith said in a statement. “I can't wait to connect with customers, elders and our wider community to share a passion for theater and to build support that will support games as a dynamic hub for world -class creativity and performance. Together, we can tell powerful stories to the widest possible audiences while nourishing a space where players inspire, transform, unite them and end. ”
The game leaders producing the artistic director, Vivienne Benesch, said that she was delighted to welcome Coyneshith to the management team because she “brings her deep links to the community and to university, a clever and creative strategic thought, and a contagious passion for the arts,” said Benesch in a statement. “While we are approaching the 50th anniversary season of the game leaders, Tina will be a fabulous partner to lay the foundations to secure the future of this unique and essential professional theater, proudly anchored in the country's first public university.”
Playmakers Repertory Company is the first professional theater company of Caroline du Nord in residence at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, working with members of the company, graduate students, local talents and visiting artists to produce redesigned classics, the world's first, and more. For almost 50 years, the mission of the company was to produce entertaining, relevant and courageous work which tells stories of and for a multiplicity of perspectives, and creates a transformational impact in their immediate and extensive communities. In 2025, he had a budget of $ 5 million.
