About Devon
On most days Devon Berkshire (she/her) works with Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, as the director of fieldwide programming. She leads the team responsible for season planning and programming strategy for TCG. At the top of her to-do list is often the curation and producing of TCG’s in-person and online events, like the widely-attended National Conference, one of the largest biennial meetings of theatre professionals in the country; the Fall Forum on Governance, a past series of intimate gatherings of theatre leaders and trustees; and the Audience (R)Evolution Convenings of 2013 and 2015, devoted to the exploration of audience and community engagement strategies in the arts landscape.
The fieldwide programming team also designs and produces programming around a broad spectrum of organizational and fieldwide issues, through a lens of equity and inclusion. Devon’s department creates and implements online learning opportunities, launched the organization’s first Programming Council, and has developed programming to address sexual misconduct in theatre.
While working at TCG, Devon has completed trainings in conflict resolution (AORTA and New York Peace Institute); adaptive leadership (EMC Arts); gender fluency and inclusion (Center for Anti-Violence Education); core values identification (TCG and Culture Shift Agency); identity and social location (Carmen Morgan and Paul Robinson); and anti-racism (Anti-Racist Theatre).
Prior to joining TCG, Devon planned business development events in the corporate sector, produced and performed off-Broadway with several companies including one she co-founded, and launched an events design and production partnership with a longtime collaborator. She holds a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.F.A. in acting from American Repertory Theater’s (ART) Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and Moscow Art Theatre. In 2008, Devon completed NYU’s post-graduate intensive course in Entertainment and Events Marketing, and in 2020 earned a certificate in the Executive Program at University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Social Impact Strategy.
Devon has had a geographically diverse upbringing, having been born in LA, schooled and nurtured in Washington, D.C., raised partially in Southern California and the Pacific Northwest, and now having lived in New York for the better part of 20 years. She left Brooklyn in 2021, and currently resides just outside of New York City in the village of Greenwood Lake, within the township of Warwick, with her husband, two energetic kids, and their mini Aussie named Rosie. In the summers (and during pandemics) you might find them on the shores of southern Maine.
