We welcome two new Board members
L-R Ethan Hanabury and David Soza
The Board of Directors of The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival has elected two new Directors to the Board for 3-year terms through December, 2024.
Ethan Hanabury is an award-winning executive coach, board member, top management team expert, executive education pioneer and group facilitator who supports senior leaders and organizations make sustainable change and maximize their potential. Ethan’s coaching draws on over 30 years of experience as a business school dean and corporate executive.
Ethan is a top-rated facilitator and coach at Columbia Business School’s Advanced Management Program and Harvard Business School’s Executive Education programs. As Senior Associate Dean at Columbia Business School for 22 years, he led the teams that brought #1 rankings to the School’s Executive Education and Executive MBA programs and also led the Admissions, Administration and MBA programs. Previous to his deanship at Columbia, Ethan was a product manager with Unilever (Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Skippy peanut butter) and a CPA with Arthur Andersen.
Ethan earned his MBA from Columbia University and completed Columbia’s Coaching Intensive Program Ethan serves as Board Member of the Provincetown Part-time Residents Taxpayer Association (PPRTA), is a former board member of the Executive MBA Council and has served as a volunteer coach for the campaigns of Pete Buttigieg and Preseident Joe Biden in 2020.
Growing up in Weymouth, Ma. in the sixties and seventies, Ethan never found any real gay role models, so he looked for them in the arts. In his early twenties, when he was still closeted, he saw productions of Tennessee Williams’ work and found themes and characters who resonated with him. It became a passion of his to see each TW production, read all of the reviews.
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival combines two of Ethan’s passions: Tennessee Williams and Provincetown. It was a lifelong dream of Ethan’s to own a home in Provincetown and eventually spend the summers there, just as Tennessee Williams did. When Ethan’s Mom, Marie, left him money when she passed in 2018, he used his inheritance to purchase “Maison Marie” on Franklin Street, which he shares with his husband Joe. They have been together for 10 years and were married in Fort Lauderdale, their primary residence, on December 20th. They also have an apartment in Manhattan and enjoy seeing theatre when they are there.
David Soza recently retired following a more than three-decade career as an environmental engineer for Shell Oil Company. While at Shell, he managed various projects in the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. His main focus and interests were remediating hydrocarbon contaminated sites and promoting sustainability. His passion at Shell was bringing people together to write, produce and direct a series of employee town halls that showcased the importance of safety and sustainability at Shell’s US Corporate Office in Houston. These town halls proved to be informative and fun and enabled David to tap into the creative abilities of his colleagues and provide a sense of community, inclusion and expression.
The second of five children, David grew up on his family ranch in Alice, Texas, a small town in South Texas. He was introduced to theatre and Tennessee Williams when his sixth-grade teacher took the entire class to see a junior high school production of The Glass Menagerie. It was this experience that inspired him to participate in theater in junior and senior high school. Engaging in school theater allowed David to meet and get to know Sherrod Donald Howell, the drama teacher who absolutely loved Tennessee Williams. Don became David’s life mentor and played a major role in influencing David’s love of theatre, the visual arts, travel, good food and wine. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1987.
David enjoys spending quality time with his life partner of 20 years, John Dalrymple. They met in college in 1983 and were married in 2008 while living in California. Along with his husband, David also enjoys spending time with friends and family, cooking, dining out, gardening, building and creating amazing spaces, and working on his ranch in Texas.
“We are an organization that advocates for the evolving power of Tennessee Williams' writing in performance,” said Festival Curator and Co-Founder, David Kaplan. “These people have joined our board because at an early age, seeing Williams' writing in performance changed their lives.”
Ethan and David join Board Chair Patrick Falco and Directors Albert Carey, Jr., Marcy Feller, David Kaplan, Jim Mauro, Joe Paprzycki, Michael Ryan, Micki Beth Stiller and Lorna Wilkerson.