ITHACA, N.Y. — The Hangar Theatre announced it has appointed Michael Barakiva as its artistic director.
Barakiva will be the Hangar’s first full-time, in-residence artistic director.
Barakiva has been serving as interim artistic director since last December, following the departure of Jen Waldman, who had been the theatre’s artistic director for the previous two seasons.
The theatre said it conducted a national search for her replacement, starting earlier this year.
As the interim artistic director, Barakiva directed “I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti” and “Third” for the Hangar’s 2016 season.
Before this season, he had been a Hangar directing fellow in 2001 and a director for the Hangar School Tour in 2003.
“My stint as Interim afforded me the opportunity to get to know and fall in love with the Hangar Theatre and its surrounding community. I am humbled and honored to become the first full-time, in-residence Artistic Director, especially as we expand the year-round artistic programming…,” Barakiva said in a news release.
Barakiva is an Armenian/Israeli-American theater director and writer based in New York City. As a director, he has worked in New York City and across the country developing new plays and staging classics, according to the Hangar.
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