In 2020, Florie Seery (she/her/hers) was appointed Associate Dean of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, the only graduate-level professional conservatory in the English-speaking world offering training in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, playwriting, stage management, technical design and production, and theater management. The School enrolls more than 200 students and employs over 100 faculty and staff, producing 15 productions annually. She is a professor of Theater Management. In addition to teaching, Florie is a case study advisor and serves on the theater management admissions committee.
Florie also serves as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, a LORT D theatre that produces five productions each season. Together, the School and Yale Rep function like a medical school and teaching hospital, with a long history of championing new work and diverse voices. Recent productions include Zora Neale Hurston’s Spunk, Eden by Steve Carter, Macbeth In Stride by Whitney White and Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi.
Florie is a Tony Awards Nominator, a former judge for the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award and serves on the Board of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). She is also a Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College.
Prior to joining Yale, Florie spent 15 years as General Manager of Manhattan Theatre Club, overseeing production and business operations across three venues on and off Broadway with an annual budget of $27 million. Significant productions during her tenure include Ink by James Graham, The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, August Wilson’s Jitney, Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire, and Ruined by Lynn Nottage.
Earlier in her career, Florie worked at Disney Theatrical Productions and Stuart Thompson Productions. She began her professional life on the long-running Broadway production I’m Not Rappaport by Herb Gardner, working for producer Jim Walsh, whom she considers her mentor. She is a member of A.T.P.A.M., a trustee of the Camphill Foundation, and a graduate of Smith College.