Leadership
Landon V. Butler, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
 Landon Butler, Chairman of the Shakespeare Theatre Company Board of Trustees,
has been a member of the Board since 1997. Butler is president of Landon Butler & Company
and serves on the policy board of the Multi-Employer Property Trust, a nationwide
real estate equity fund that he helped to organize in 1981. He is also a principal
of a series of specialty real estate funds, three venture capital funds that
invest in Central Europe and East Asia, and a money management firm. Mr. Butler
served as deputy chief of staff and deputy assistant to the President in the
Carter White House from 1977 to 1981. He currently serves on the Board of Directors
of the Black Student Fund and In2Books. He also served as a member of the Executive
Board of the U.S. Committee on NATO. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee
University and the Harvard School of Business.
Michael Kahn, Artistic Director  Michael
Kahn has led the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., for 19 seasons
as Artistic Director, creating what The Wall Street Journal calls “...the
nation's foremost Shakespeare company.” Fifteen years ago, he created the Free
For All, which brings a free Shakespeare Theatre Company production to more than
35,000 people each summer in Washington 's Rock Creek Park. In addition to leading
the Shakespeare Theatre Company, he is also the Richard Rodgers Director of the
Drama Division at Juilliard and the founder of the Academy for Classical Acting
at The George Washington University. His Broadway credits include a Tony Award
nomination for his production of Showboat. Kahn's ability to adapt
classic works is legendary in the theatre community. In 2003, the Theatre performed
his production of The Oedipus Plays at the Athens Festival in Greece,
where it received standing ovations and critical acclaim.
Last summer, the Company took Kahn's production of Love's Labor's Lost to
the Royal Shakespeare Company's “Complete Works Festival” in Stratford-upon-Avon,
where it received critical acclaim and played to sold-out houses.
Now, Kahn leads the Shakespeare Theatre Company into a new era with the creation
of the Harman Center for the Arts, a two-venue performing arts center that will
expand the Shakespeare Theatre Company's offerings while creating opportunities
for performing artists from around the world to perform in Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Sidney Harman, Benefactor
 Dr.
Harman is one of the handful of pioneers who began the high-fidelity industry
with the founding of Harman/Kardon, Inc. in 1952. Harman/Kardon grew into Harman
International Industries, a Fortune 500 company.
He is widely known for the Quality of Working Life programs he initiated at
the Company's plants and especially so for the program at Bolivar, Tennessee
(begun in 1969), which has become a model for such activities in American industry
and a principal case study at business schools in the United States and abroad.
For three years, Dr. Harman was President of Friends World College, a worldwide
experimental Quaker college. He is the founder and an active member of the Program
on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University, and a member of the Advisory Committee of
the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the same institution.
Dr. Harman serves on the boards of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies
and the Public Agenda Foundation. He is also a member of the Board of the Leadership
Institute of the University of Southern California.
He is the co-author, with Daniel Yankelovich, of Starting With The People,
published by Houghton Mifflin in June 1988, and the author of Mind Your Own
Business, published by Currency/Doubleday in October 2003.
Having served on the boards of numerous leading educational, public service
and philanthropic organizations, Dr. Harman has been a trustee of the Martin
Luther King Center for Social Change, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
and the National Symphony Orchestra.
Currently, Dr. Harman serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the
Board of BENS (Business Executives for National Security). He is a member of
the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of
the Council on Competitiveness.
Dr. Harman is a Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Honorable Robert Livingston, Co-Chair of the Capital Campaign
 Robert L. Livingston, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare
Theatre Company, served in the United States House of Representatives for almost
22 years. Mr. Livingston now heads the lobbying firm The Livingston Group,
located in Washington, D.C. and in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mr. Livingston currently serves on the Boards of Directors and Boards of Advisors
for numerous profit and non-profit institutions.
Before his almost 22 years in Congress, Mr. Livingston practiced law in both
public and private fields for nine years. As assistant United States Attorney,
he served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s
Office. His experience also included serving as Chief Special Prosecutor and
Chief of the Armed Robbery Division of the New Orleans Parish District Attorney’s
Office and Chief Prosecutor for the Organized Crime Unit of the Louisiana Attorney
General’s Office.
Mr. Livingston earned a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate degrees from
Tulane University, and he is a graduate of the Loyola University Institute
of Politics.
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