Kent Thompson
Artistic Director

Kent is in his fifth season as Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company. In his first four Denver seasons he directed productions of Dusty and the Big Bad World, Plainsong, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Amadeus, King Lear and Measure for Measure. Prior to moving to Denver he was Producing Artistic Director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for 16 years. His production of Macbeth was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), to tour 13 US military bases in the fall of 2004. In 1991 Kent created the Southern Writers’ Project (SWP), designed to commission and develop new plays that presented 16 world premieres during his tenure. Two of Kent’s major accomplishments since moving to Denver have been the establishment of the Women’s Voices Fund, commissioning and developing of new plays by women, and the Colorado New Play Summit, quickly becoming a premier national festival for new American Plays. He served for eight years on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and as its president for three
years. He has served on peer review panels for the NEA (also chair), TCG, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Fulbright Scholars Program, The Wallace Funds, The Doris Duke Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.