Ed Decker
Founding Artistic Director, The New Conservatory Theatre Center
Ed Decker is the Founder and Artistic Director of the New Conservatory Theatre Center which opened its doors in 1981. NCTC is a cornerstone institution leading in the fields of arts education as well as queer and allied theatre production. A graduate of the SFSU Theatre Arts Department he is extremely honored to continue is work with a wide array of artisans and activists. Over the past four decades Decker has produced and/or directed hundreds of productions for NCTC. He is particularly proud of the collaboration with his husband and writing partner on the world premiere of Rights of Passage – a love story set against the back drop of the struggle for international human rights. The acting edition of the play has recently been published by Concord Theatricals in New York. Decker is looking forward to keeping the word “new” in the company’s namesake emblematic of fresh, vital, equitable and transformative theatre.
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Promises Made and Promises Kept
Reboot Studios’ short, The Anne Frank Gift Shop, was written by Mickey Rapkin to reach a young audience because of the shocking levels of ignorance about the Holocaust among newer generations. My Brother’s Gift, a play that was staged at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco, seeks to reach young people by creating a connection to the “talented people and especially the young ones who did not get to experience the wonders of life,” through the lens of the paintings of a young man who was killed in the Holocaust. Heinz Geiringer’s paintings were retrieved from their hiding place after the Holocaust by his sister, who survived. The center’s Artistic Director Ed Decker writes in our blog about his connection to the play, which had a run in 2024 at the New Conservatory Theatre Center.