Lane Czaplinski
Lane Czaplinski is the Director of Performing Arts at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University. From 2002-2017 Czaplinski was the Artistic Director of On the Boards, a leading contemporary performing arts center in Seattle. Under his leadership, the organization commissioned and produced over 80 new multidisciplinary performance works and nurtured regional artists to make new works that garnered national funding and touring opportunities. One of Czaplinski’s signature initiatives, OntheBoards.tv, has expanded the audience for contemporary programming through HD-quality performance films, attracting an international subscriber base of students and arts enthusiasts. His efforts won Czaplinski several awards, including a Genius Award from Seattle’s The Stranger, and led the New York Times to declare On the Boards “one of America’s best theaters for contemporary performance.”