Positions
Biography
Barbara Beckley, Artistic Director of The Colony Theatre, grew up in New Rochelle, NY, attended Middlebury College in Vermont, and graduated from New York's Neighborhood Playhouse where she studied with Sanford Meisner. Shortly after relocating to Los Angeles, she co-founded The Colony Theatre in 1975, and has since produced most of the company's mainstage productions. In 1993 she received Women in Theatre's Outstanding Contribution Award, and was the keynote speaker at ShowBiz West's 1994 West Coast Theatre Expo. She has served on the Peer Review Committees of the Pasadena Arts Council and the L.A. County Arts Commission. For three years she served as President of the Board of Theatre LA (now L.A. Stage Alliance). In 1999 she received Theatre LA's James A. Doolittle Ovation Award for Leadership in L.A. Theatre. In 2000, she led The Colony to its new home, a beautiful 276-seat theatre created for it by the City of Burbank. Starting in 2003, the company has appeared every year in the Encyclopedia Britannica Almanac on its list of “25 Notable U.S. Theatre Companies,” and in 2006 was voted by the readers of LA Daily News “Best Live Theatre in Los Angeles.” She is a board member of the Burbank Arts Education Foundation and serves on Burbank’s Cultural Arts Commission. As an actress, Barbara has been seen in many Colony productions, winning an L.A. Drama Critics' Circle Award and four Drama-Logue awards.
Productions
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Producer Free Man of Color (2010) |
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Producer Bell, Book and Candle (2010) |
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Producer Visiting Mr. Green (2009) |
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Producer An Evening with Norman Lloyd (2010) |
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Producer Moonlight & Magnolias (2011) |
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Producer The All Night Strut (2011) |
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Producer Year Zero (2011) |
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Producer On Golden Pond (2011) |
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Producer Shooting Star (2011) |
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Producer Travels With My Aunt (2011) |
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Producer Old Wicked Songs (2012) |
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Producer Dames at Sea (2012) |