Why Did This Guy Want To Take On The Job Of Artistic Director At A Theatre That Had To Hold An Emergency Fundraising Campaign?

David Ivers, who's taking on the role at the Arizona Theatre Company (which runs both in Phoenix and Tucson): "When I became the unanimous candidate — the board’s words, not mine — I felt I had the opportunity ... to say 'I would like to fight on behalf of the staff before I take this job. So if you are serious about me doing this, we have to raise some money before we start. I won’t take the job unless we start to equalize cash flow problems. I’ll help, and I’ll do that even as a candidate, but I can’t in good conscience ask myself and my family to move here, or these families who live here, to continue if you aren’t serious about saving the theater.'"

Article source here:Arts Journal