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Highlands PAC Announces New Executive Director
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Jeanne Piazza steps into the role held for the past 14 years by Mary Adair Trumbly, who announced late last year her plans to retire at the end of 2024.
Jeanne Piazza
The Highlands Performing Arts Center (the PAC) is pleased to announce the hiring of our new Executive Director, Jeanne Piazza, who joins us in September from the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, FL. Jeanne steps into the role held for the past 14 years by Mary Adair Trumbly, who announced late last year her plans to retire at the end of 2024. The selection of Jeanne as our next Executive Director resulted from a national search by the PAC Board that drew strong interest from many highly qualified candidates.
During her 20-year career at the Straz Center, Jeanne has worked in donor services, major gifts, and business management, leading to her current role as Senior Director of Programming which encompasses five theaters at one of the highest grossing performing arts centers in the country. As a true “roll up the sleeves manager” Jeanne is looking forward to learning all aspects of PAC operations and planning for its future growth. Mary Adair will continue to serve the PAC through the end of the year and looks forward to providing transition support to Jeanne. She adds that “Jeanne will be a wonderful addition to our PAC and the community, and she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience. I am in awe of what she has accomplished at the Straz and look forward to working with her.”
For over 25 years Jeanne travelled annually to Highlands to visit her mother where she fell in love with the community and its people. As she grew in her performing arts career, Jeanne continued to annually visit Highlands and developed a dream to one day lead the PAC. Her dream has indeed come true, and the PAC staff and board are thrilled to welcome Jeanne back to the plateau as her new, permanent home.
“I am incredibly excited about the opportunity to step into this new role. I have immense respect for Mary Adair and her contributions to the PAC and I know that I could never truly replace her. Instead, I hope to build on the strong foundation she has established and bring my own unique strengths and perspective to the position.”
The Highlands Performing Arts Center provides high quality venues for the performing arts in the Highlands Cashiers community. And is home to three resident companies: the Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival, the Highlands Cashiers Players and the Mountain Theatre Company; and our own PAC Educational Theatre program. Also offering programing from the MET Opera (live from NYC,) the National Theatre of London, Great Art on Screen and movies. www.HighlandsPerformingArts.com
