Historic theater in Ogunquit has new development director
Photo / Courtesy of Ogunquit Playhouse
Dan Breen, who joined the Ogunquit Playhouse as director of development, will oversee membership growth, planning giving and fundraising for capital improvements.
The Ogunquit Playhouse hired a director of development to help it keep up with the demands of fundraising.
Dan Breen, who has been a key fundraiser at the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Middlebury College, takes over the role.
Breen will be tasked with helping build the membership program, expand planned giving, work with the board and raise funds for capital needs at the historic theater.
“We are thrilled to have Dan Breen as part of our growing company to lead us in the area of fundraising in order to help insure our treasured playhouse will be here for generations to come,” said Executive Artistic Director Bradford Kenney. “As the Ogunquit Playhouse productions continue to reach new benchmarks within our industry, it is more important than ever to raise the funds necessary to preserve our historic building, and to enhance and equip our theatre to accommodate both our artistic goals and to enhance our public areas in order to create the best possible experience for our visitors.”
Breen moved from the Philadelphia area, where he worked in development at the George School, and relocated to Kittery Point.
The Ogunquit Playhouse, a nonprofit at 10 Main St. in Ogunquit, specializes in musicals, including “Million Dollar Quartet,” “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and “Beauty and the Beast.” The theater was founded in 1933 by Broadway showman Walter Hartwig and his wife Maude and moved into its current site in 1937. It is on the National Historic Register.
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