In December 2020, when artistic director Jon Carr left Dad’s Garage Theatre to become the executive producer for Second City in Chicago, longtime improviser Tim Stoltenberg stepped into the role on an interim basis. Now Stoltenberg has been named permanent artistic director of Dad’s Garage. He joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes via Zoom to talk about the future of Dad’s and its expansive new collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
During the early months of the pandemic, Stoltenberg had escaped to pastoral life. He moved back to his family home in Wisconsin, working on their small farm, taking some shifts at a sweet corn factory. He said, “It was totally out of the blue [when] Dad’s started talking to me about what was going on.”
Carr had just taken the position of artistic director when a job at Second City, too good to refuse, came his way. But luckily, Stoltenberg turned out to be a natural, if sudden, successor. “It worked out. Like, I had the time, and I was very interested in coming back to Dad’s in some fashion,” he said.
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