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...brings a leadership style distinct from that of his predecessor Robert S. Brustein, who co-founded the ART in 1966 and is known for leading the company with a strong hand...
Woodruff will take the helm of the ART as part of a triumvirate with Robert J. Orchard, who co-founded the theatre with Brustein and will be the executive director of the re-organized company, and Gideon Lester, who will be the associate artistic director...
...when Woodruff—who was appointed a year ago by former University President Neil L. Rudenstine and has been working part-time at Harvard since then—assumes the position of ART director in August, he will also take over many of the same problems that plagued Brustein in recent years...
...Though Brustein claims he had a large role in picking his successor, Woodruff is cut from a different artistic cloth than the departing elder statesman of Harvard theater...
...Brustein] built a reputation doing classics and having great directors,” Woodruff says. “That will continue and maybe expand...out of the Western canon into Asia, Latin America, the rest of the world...