The city of Tempe has hired theater veteran Ralph Remington to serve a new role within the Community Services Department as arts and culture deputy director.
The move comes as the city seeks to advance the goals outlined in its recently completed Arts and Culture Plan.
Remington is the former Western regional director/assistant executive director of Actors’ Equity Association and former director of theater and musical theater for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Remington has written seven feature screenplays and two plays. His essay “To Be Black in America,” has been recently published in the African American literary anthology, “Blues Vision.” Another essay, “Michael, Obama, and Post-Racial Deconstruction,” was published in the anthology “Goodbye, Billie Jean: The Meaning of Michael Jackson.”
His play Penetrating Whiteness was a semi-finalist in 2015 at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwright’s Competition.
He is the founding producing artistic director of Pillsbury House Theatre, in Minneapolis, Minn., where he was also an elected member of the Minneapolis City Council.
Information: tempe.gov/arts
