DreamWrights Center for Community Arts has welcomed Gregory DeCandia to York as its new artistic director. DeCandia, who has held many roles in theaters, including actor, director and writer, came to York from Philadelphia and Oklahoma, most recently.
DeCandia has hit the ground running at DreamWrights, arriving at the opening of its first indoor show since COVID-19, "West Side Story, School Edition," as well as the start of summer camps. He is also creating the organization's new Community Connectors program as an effort to draw other community partners into the fold.
In only a few weeks, DeCandia has started meeting people across the city to understand what DreamWrights means to them and to get to know his new home.
Aside from helping guest directors run shows and all other artistic director tasks, DeCandia will direct this year's holiday show, "A Christmas Carol," as well as performing his own piece, "Silhouettes of Service," on Veterans Day. This show is a 75-minute solo verbatim theater piece derived from 26 interviews of soldiers from World War II to the present. DeCandia is also planning a similar piece for the 2022 season called "If You Knew York," where he will engage residents to hear about their town.
For more information about DreamWrights, visit http://www.dreamwrights.org or http://www.facebook.com/dreamwrights.
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