Join me for a conversation with the new Executive Director of the Durango Arts Center, Jason Lythgoe.

Four Corners Arts Forum

Join me for a conversation with the new Executive Director of the Durango Arts Center, Jason Lythgoe. This is an exciting new role for Lythgoe who has already been involved with the Arts Center for over a decade teaching and managing the youth and adult theatre programs. He has always had a passion for community based arts and its power to enrich lives through a diverse range of exhibits, classes, workshops and events. He has been performing in theatre since he was 7 years old at the Fullerton Children’s Repertory Theatre in southern California. He studied Theatre at California State University, Fullerton after which time he helped to found three storefront theatre companies in Long Beach and Orange County, California. Lythgoe moved to Colorado in 2009 where he taught at several front range institutions including the Colorado Springs Conservatory, Colorado Fine Arts Center and the Denver Center Theatre Academy before moving to Durango in 2015 where he performed in a summer production at the Henry Starter Theatre where he also served as its theater manager until the venue closed in 2020. After many years of balancing the creative life with that of the corporate cubicle daytime world he has developed the many skills needed to run an organization like the Durango Arts Center. Although he is a performer himself, teaching has always been his main passion so he’s going to still teach one of the youth classes to show that the executive director isn’t just behind the desk, he’s actually contributing. To him the job is not only on the administration side and the fundraising, but believes he needs to be the face on stage and at the gallery events to be the leader for the Art Center that has been his home for almost a decade. That’s what will make it fun.

To find out more about the upcoming events visit the website at www.durangoarts.org