The Chicago Humanities and Arts Festival on Wednesday announced that its executive director since 2007, Stuart Flack has resigned and will leave the organization on December 31.
"I'm here for five years, I think we have done a great job, build a great team and professional, just a lot of things, I'm interested in doing is not inside the four walls of the festival. "anti-aircraft guns, 52-year-old, also a playwright. He said that after he recently Humanities Festival (November 11) before the end of the intense work began under a timed his exit to.
Anti-aircraft guns during his tenure the campus of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago festival, film festival, established to expand its coverage, the establishment of a two-week "stage, scenic and sound" International Children's Film Festival in the spring, and expand its online marketing / sales as well as the content, with about 150 courses, video now. Film Festival, has been facing increasing competition in recent years, the main 11-day running of the 2 - year old Chicago idea Festival positioning itself only a few weeks ago, Humanities and Arts Festival in November, but the organization reported, this year's the attendance of theme activities.
Flask has been a major management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and publisher of the "McKinsey Quarterly Business magazine, and his appointment to office in Chicago, said he is developing two new plays in the Chicago Dramatists he is a resident playwright, as well as dance theater works for the local Seldoms Dance Company.
"I was thinking about my next leadership opportunity," he added.
CHF artistic director Matti Bunzl called speckled departure "a great loss to us", but he said he understood, spots hopes to return to his creative life after overseeing a successful festival. "Kind of workload, he and all that he finished us, this is a clear (script writing) must be on the back burner," Bunzl said.
The organization announced Humanities Festival Chairman Clark Hulse, former University of Chicago, Illinois, Dean of the Graduate School, will serve as interim executive director while a national search to fill the position.
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