Lake Tahoe Shakespeare leader heads to LA

By Forrest Hartman, Reno Gazette-Journal

Catherine Atack is leaving her post as executive director of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival after seven years with the organization.

In an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal on Friday, she said that she resigned from the festival about three weeks ago, and that her last day is Friday. She is leaving, she said, to take a job with a Los Angeles-based company that serves foster youth in Los Angeles County.

“It’s a terrific opportunity for me to go there and kind of start a new endeavor,” she said. “It’s a personal move for me as well. Obviously, because I’m leaving the area and going to a larger metropolitan market.”

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