André Bishop To Step Away From Lincoln Center Theater Leadership In 2025, Signaling Another Major Change In Broadway’s Non-Profit World
deadline.comAndré Bishop will conclude his 33-year leadership tenure at Lincoln Center Theater in June 2025 at the conclusion of the non-profit theater company’s 40th anniversary 2024-25 season.
Bishop, whose celebrated tenure as LCT’s Artistic Director and more recently Producing Artistic Director included the premieres of such acclaimed new works as Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia and Arcadia, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig, and The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel, to name a very few, announced his intended departure today. “My years at Lincoln Center Theater have been happy ones,” he said in a statement, “and I will miss working with all my friends and colleagues.
But the time has come, as it inevitably does, for the next generation to step in and step up. I look forward to that. LCT has always been a welcoming home for artists, and I know that tradition will continue.
I thank the Board for their continued support, and I look forward to collaborating on a seamless transition.” The Lincoln Center Theater Board of Directors said it would launch a search for a successor “in due course to ensure a seamless, coordinated leadership transition.” With today’s announcement, Bishop becomes the second major figure in New York’s non-profit theater world to disclose plans to step down: On Wednesday, Carole Rothman, co-founder of the renowned Second Stage, announced her intentions to exit the company she started in 1979.
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