Brenda DeVita to Keynote SCIL Connect Leadership Lunch

The Sauk County Institute of Leadership is pleased to announce that the Artistic Director of American Players Theatre, Brenda DeVita, will Keynote the SCIL Connect Leadership Lunch on Thursday, July 13, 2023. The topic will be Creative Leadership in Extraordinary Times.

Brenda joined APT in 1995 as Company Manager, and was soon promoted to Casting Director, and then to Associate Artistic Director in 2004. She was honored to be appointed Artistic Director in 2014. Brenda was instrumental in creating APT’s Core Acting Company, the Acting Apprentice program and developing the Voice and Text department, which has become one of the most robust and respected in the country. Brenda has actively led APT to vigorously work to become an equitable space so all people in the company may feel welcome and successful.

Brenda studied theater at the University of Northern Iowa and the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware. She trained with Tadashi Suzuki in Japan and worked many years as a professional actress. Brenda's directing credits for APT include Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Born Yesterday, Shakespeare’s Will, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Year of Magical Thinking and Mary’s Wedding. Other favorite directing projects include; Shakespeare’s Will for Indiana Repertory Theatre; The Other Place for Forward Theater Company; and The Seagull for University of California – San Diego. Brenda also helped create 4PeteSake, a local organization that raises funds for River Valley residents who face extraordinary financial hardship. Brenda and her husband, Jim DeVita, reside in Spring Green and have two grown children of which they are very proud, Gale and Sophia. She is grateful for the unwavering support from the APT family, colleagues and audience alike. You are remarkable.

Registration for this event closed July 7. Please contact us if you are still interested in joining us for this event.