Scranton-based writer and director Simone Daniel will take over as the new artistic director of the Scranton Shakespeare Festival, as founder Michael Bradshaw Flynn takes a three-year sabbatical to pursue other projects.<\/p>\n
Daniel has experience with the Scranton Shakespeare Festival. She is also a frequent collaborator of the Scranton Fringe Festival, where she serves as youth theater director in its partnership with the Youth Arts Coalition to provide free after-school arts education. She is a founding member of the New Vintage Ensemble.<\/p>\n
Her works have premiered in several cities, including the Edinburgh Fringe.<\/p>\n
Bradshaw Flynn will remain an executive producer with the festival that he founded in 2011 at age 23. It has presented 65 productions so far. He is a Scranton native based in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton-based writer and director Simone Daniel will take over as the new artistic director of the Scranton Shakespeare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179,289,729],"class_list":["post-254763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}