One of his favorite activities, whenever possible, was seeing shows in the vacation spots we visited. Even during our honeymoon in Ixtapa, Mexico, some 35 years ago, he spent a night attending a community production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” instead of eating, drinking and experiencing life in the sleepy Mexican fishing village.
BILL BOSS HUMAN CODE
Those who knew Bill knew that he was complex - code for “he could be challenging.”įor Bill, there was no distinction between work and downtime because facilitating theater to improve humanity wasn’t a job to him. He did this while also managing budgets so that the productions made money for the arts organizations that employed him - most recently, the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts.īill believed passionately in theater’s ability to enhance people’s lives, that the art form could make them more intelligent, more sophisticated, more human. He worked not as an actor but in theater management, bringing quality Broadway productions from England, Ireland and elsewhere to the diverse communities where he worked. He considered such a career a great honor and felt truly fortunate to be able to spend so much time doing what he loved. Obsessed with theater virtually his whole life, Bill Conner proudly told other people about his work.
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