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Meanwhile, our intensive Summer Training leadership of Artistic Director Carey Perloff, we embrace Congress attracts students from around the world, and the San our responsibility to conserve, renew, and reinvent our rich Francisco Semester offers a unique study-abroad opportunity theatrical traditions and literatures, while exploring new for undergraduates. Other programs include the world-famous artistic forms and new communities. Founded by William Ball, Young Conservatory for students ages 8 to 19, led by 28-year a pioneer of the regional theater movement, A.C.T. opened its veteran Craig Slaight; Studio A.C.T., our expansive course of first San Francisco season in 1967. We have since performed theater study for adults; and the Professional Development more than 350 productions to a combined audience of more Training Program, which offers actor training for companies than seven million people. Every year we reach more than seeking to elevate their employees’ business performance skills. 250,000 people through our productions and programs. Our alumni often grace our mainstage and perform around the Bay Area, as well as on stages and screens across the country. Rising from the wreckage of the earthquake and fire of 1906 and hailed as the “perfect playhouse,” the beautiful, historic A.C.T. also brings the benefits of theater-based arts education Geary Theater has been our home since the beginning. When to more than 12,000 Bay Area students and educators each the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ripped the roof apart, San year. Central to our ACTsmart education programs, run by Franciscans rallied together to raise a record-breaking $30 Director of Education & Community Programs Elizabeth million to rebuild the theater. The Geary reopened in 1996 with Brodersen, is the longstanding Student Matinee (SMAT) a production of The Tempest directed by Perloff, who took over program, which has brought hundreds of thousands of young in 1992 after the retirement of A.C.T.’s second artistic director, people to A.C.T. performances since 1968. We also provide gentleman artist Ed Hastings. touring Will on Wheels Shakespeare productions, teaching- artist residencies, in-school workshops, and study materials to Perloff’s 24-season tenure has been marked by groundbreaking Bay Area schools and community-based organizations. productions of classical works and new translations creatively colliding with exceptional contemporary theater; cross- With our increased presence in the Central Market neighborhood disciplinary performances and international collaborations; marked by the renovation of The Strand Theater and the and theater made by, for, and about the Bay Area. 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