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Mark Cuddy

Artistic Director

Mark is in his 14th season as Artistic Director of Geva Theatre Center. Mr. Cuddy has led Geva through a renaissance of artistic and institutional growth with a diverse repertory, top-flight artists, wide-reaching educational programs and a commitment to new play development being his artistic signature. During the past decade, Geva has doubled its operating budget, built the 180-seat Nextstage, erased previous accumulated deficits and began an endowment. During the 2005-2006 Season, Geva produced four world premieres including plays by Marc Wolf, James Still and Jamie Pachino. Recently, Mr. Cuddy has directed Pride and Prejudice (which he also co-adapted), Bad Dates, Urinetown the Musical, Our Town, Tuesdays with Morrie, the world premiere of Splitting Infinity, Vigil, Hamlet and A Chorus Line. Other Geva credits include the world premieres of Convenience (musical) by Gregg Coffin and Theophilus North by Matthew Burnett from Thornton Wilder (also at Arena Stage), plus 1776 (musical), House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn (East Coast premiere), That Was Then (American premiere) and Famous Orpheus by Oyamo (choreography by Garth Fagan).

Mr. Cuddy has also served as Artistic Director of Sacramento Theatre Company, Producing Director of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and on the directing staff of the Denver Center Theatre Company. He is newly elected to the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group and has served on the review panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. He received his BA in Theatre/Honors from the University of Massachusetts where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He resides in the Highland Park area of Rochester with his wife, artist Christina Selian. Their older son, Maximilian, is at Temple University and their younger son, Augustus, is at the School of the Arts.

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Greg Weber

Managing Director

Greg arrived at Geva Theatre Center in the fall of 2006 as the newly appointed Production Manager. Prior to coming to Geva, Mr. Weber served for over a decade as the Technical Director of the innovative Houston Grand Opera where he collaborated with the world’s greatest opera stars in producing a dozen world premieres and over 30 new productions with companies such as Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Teatro alla Scala; Opéra National de Paris - Bastille; The Metropolitan Opera; Lyric Opera of Chicago; San Francisco Opera; and the Edinburgh Festival. Operas he produced have been seen throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, South America, and North America. Among his many technological innovations: overseeing the first Western Hemisphere presentation of a Plazacast —a live, closed-circuit video presentation of an opera in a park to crowds in excess of 7,000—advising on the presentation of similar video projects in Santa Fe, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.; leading the development and operation of HGO’s OperaVision—a live, closed circuit four- to six-camera shoot of stage closeups, each projected on six video screens throughout the theatre; creating a super-title software program considered the most efficient and least costly program in existence.

Mr. Weber has taught undergraduates at Ohio Northern University and graduate students at University of Missouri - Kansas City. While in Kansas City he also served as the Technical Director for the Missouri Repertory Theatre. He was invited to study and work with the Moscow Art Theatre in 1991 and still remembers seeing the track marks of the tanks from the coup while walking home at night. He holds degrees from Ball State University and the University of Missouri - Kansas City in theatre design and theatre technology. Although his career has taken him to visit and collaborate with dozens of national and international organizations, he is now very pleased to call Rochester home.