Lebanon
Clow, a 1988 graduate of Hartford High School, has worked at the opera house for 15 years, starting as a box office worker and moving up to associate director in 2004 and then to the top job in 2008. During Clow’s time in charge, according to a news release, “Lebanon Opera House held a successful sustainability campaign, raising over $500,000, and significantly increased access to the venue until over 90 percent of the LOH’s total usage is community-based or educational.”
In a letter to opera house members last week, Clow, 46, wrote that while she will miss the venue — where, as a child, she attended the North Country Community Theatre’s summer musical and, as a young adult, stage-managed and directed shows — the opening at the Marathan Center for the Performing Arts in Findlay, Ohio, “is an exhilarating step in my growth as an arts administrator and I ultimately realized it was one I did not want to pass me by.”
Findlay is in the northwest corner of Ohio, a short drive south of Toledo and east of Fort Wayne, Ind.
In the news release, the opera house announced that a committee is looking for candidates for Clow’s successor.
— David Corriveau