The Beck Center for the Arts
17801 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, Ohio
(216) 521-2540
www.beckcenter.org

Brief Description

The Beck Center for the Arts is a non-profit, performing arts and arts education organization dedicated to enriching the quality of life for Northeastern Ohioans. We combine professional theatrical productions with comprehensive curriculum-based arts education in Creative Arts Therapies, dance, music, theater, and visual arts, serving over 100,000 annually in Cuyahoga, Lorain, Lake, and Summit Counties.

The Beck Center professional theater productions include a traditional, yet diverse combination of musicals, dramas and comedies on two separate stages, serving an average of 30,000 patrons each year. A 20-year veteran, Artistic Director Scott Spence has linked some of Cleveland’s top directors with titles you would expect (or not expect) from the Beck Center, including Seth Gordon of the Cleveland Play House, an artist-in-residency with Chicago’s Timothy Mooney and Cain Park’s Artistic Director, Victoria Bussert. Some daring, some courageous, yet all the quality and value you have come to expect from the Beck Center for the Arts.

With regard to arts education, the staff and faculty believe that quality arts education can be provided to all people regardless of age or ability. Classes are led by experienced and trained professionals who encourage each student to stretch to his or her artistic potential. Over 6,000 served annually.

The Creative Arts Therapies department assists individuals with a variety of special needs by enhancing their quality of life through the creative arts. 1,800 individuals are served each week in this capacity.

The Outreach Education department provides 21,000 students high quality and participatory arts instruction annually, both inside local schools and on the Beck Center campus with particular attention to the underserved.

Art exhibits at the Beck Center are ongoing with exhibits by local and regional artists along with student and faculty exhibits. In addition, a partnership with the Cleveland Artists’ Foundation provides exhibits of historical and scholarly importance for free to the public.

Your investment in The Beck's future allows us to continue to enrich the lives of thousnds of adults, teens and children throughout Northeast Ohio. To make a donation to Beck Center for the Arts or for information on other opportunities to contribute to The Beck, such as endowments, bequests and memorial, please contact Director of Development, Sally Weakley at (216) 521-2540, ext. 18.

Beck Center Contact Information

Main telephone: 216-521-2540

Executive Offices
President and Chief Executive Officer – Lucinda B. Einhouse, ext. 24 lucinda.einhouse@beckcenter.org
Director of Finance – J. Michael Ransom, ext. 23  mransom@beckcenter.org
Accountant – Karen Langenwalter, ext. 25 klangenwalter@beckcenter.org

Program Areas
Artistic Director - Scott Spence, ext. 15  grumio85@aol.com
Director of Education – Ed Gallagher, ext. 12  egallagher@beckcenter.org
Associate Director, Creative Arts Therapies – Tara Griest, ext. 34   tgriest@beckcenter.org
Associate Director, Dance - Melanie Szucs, ext. 26 mszucs@beckcenter.org
Associate Director, Outreach Education - Rachel Spence, ext. 16  rspence@beckcenter.org
Associate Director, Theater Education – Jonathan Kronenberger, ext. 27 jkronenberger@beckcenter.org
Associate Director, Visual Arts Education – Susan Gallagher, ext. 13  sgallagher@beckcenter.org
Education Business Manager - Judi Votypka, ext. 17 judiv@beckcenter.org

Business Operations
Director of Business Operations, Larry Goodpaster, ext. 29 lgoodpaster@beckcenter.org
Customer Service Assistant Manager - Rennie Tisdale, ext. 28  rtisdale@beckcenter.org
Facilities Supervisor - Karen Graziani, ext. 33 kgraziani@beckcenter.org

Marketing & External Affairs
Director of Marketing & External Affairs - Missy S. Toms, ext. 22  mtoms@beckcenter.org
Publications Manager – Fran Storch, ext. 20  fstorch@beckcenter.org
Group Sales - Larry Goodpaster, ext. 29  lgoodpaster@beckcenter.org

Development
Director of Development – Sally Weakley, ext. 18 sweakley@beckcenter.org
Development Assistant – Heather Johnson, ext. 19 hjohnson@beckcenter.org

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Frederick B. Unger, Chairman 

Lucinda Einhouse, President & CEO
Rosemary E. Corcoran, Vice Chairman Raymond L. Cushing, Vice Chairman
Max W. Thomas, Vice Chairman
John J. McGowan, Jr., Secretary

Marie Albano-Weitz, DDS
Ruth B. Bertrand
Peter V. Buca
Nancy B. Calcott
Donald Carlson
Jon Catanese
Mary Anne Crampton
Joel Egertson
Ann W. Elder
Mary Kim Elkins
Jeffrey Endress
Kathy Haber
Henry Holtkamp
Eugene L. Kramer
Anthony J. LaCerva
Dennis R. Lansdowne
Melissa Monaco
Michael Murphy
Kathleen T. Neal, Ph.D.
Elving F. Otero
Alec Pacella
Jennifer Pae
Dr. Maria Jose Pujana
John A. Reynolds
Bradford Richmond, M.D.
William J. Schmitt
Stephen C. Sutton
Ellen Z. Todia
Bruce Wacker
Thomas C. Wagner
Margaret G. Weitzel
Richard A. West
Michael Whitkofski  

 

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Donald G. Bain, Jr.
Deborah A. Bridwell, Ph.D.
Helen Corns
Robert L. Curry
B. Neil Davis
F. Ross Ellis
David C. Estrop, Ph.D.
Virginia Q. Foley
Terry L. Jones
Andrew L. Killian
Brian M. King
Kathleen Lawther
LaVerne Lugibihl
W. James Mayer, Jr.
Patricia McNamara
Peter Metzloff
Leroy B. Parks, Jr.
Ron Waldheger
Karl E. Ware
Robert C. Weber
Marjorie C. Wiese

 

HONORARY – EX OFFICIO

Cynthia Fisher, President, Beck Center Women’s Board

 

NATIONAL DIRECTORS

Dee Hoty
Jack Lee
Marjorie Redmond
Jack Riley
Alice Ripley
Martin Savidge