Harold Wolpert

Managing Director
harold@capeplayhouse.com

Harold Wolpert (he/him), who began his career as an intern at The Cape Playhouse in his teens, now serves as its Managing Director. He is a three-time Tony Award–winning arts leader, strategist, and teacher with deep expertise in nonprofit theatre leadership, organizational advancement, and producing. His core values of integrity, authenticity, and decency underpin his respect for artists and institutions alike. As Anna Deavere Smith has said, “There’s much to appreciate about Harold. What I’ve liked most is his spirit of radical hospitality. Quite simply, he’s a classy cat.”

Harold has served in executive leadership positions at the internationally acclaimed Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre, and Alley Theatre. He has collaborated with preeminent theater artists on more than 250 Broadway, Off-Broadway, and LORT productions, including Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning works, as well as West End and Venice Biennale productions, national tours, transfers, international collaborations, and filmed works. Nationally, Wolpert is recognized as a leader in the theatre field through years of service advancing sector-wide collaboration.

Harold is also the Founder and CEO of My Purple Crayon Advisors, which collaborates with nonprofit arts organizations during periods of transition, growth, and strategic recalibration. The practice focuses on organizational advancement, sustainability, and leadership development, delivering actionable solutions that build durable capacity in support of mission. Clients include organizations across all stages of growth, among them Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cape Playhouse, Wilma Theater, McCarter Theatre Center, Jazz Houston, Miami New Drama, IndieSpace, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, and Goodspeed Musicals.

A longtime teacher, mentor, and volunteer, Harold serves on the faculty of Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama, where he champions theater management graduate students preparing for leadership roles in the arts. His civic engagement includes a decade of volunteer service with The Trevor Project and serving as Board Chairman of AIDS Foundation Houston.

Originally from Philadelphia and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Harold lives in Brooklyn with his cat, Joey, his (unreliable) assistant.

Eric Rosen

Artistic Director
eric@capeplayhouse.com

Eric Rosen was appointed Artistic Director of The Cape Playhouse in August 2023, where he directed last summer’s hit productions of tick tick BOOM and Waitress in what was the theater’s most successful season in decades. Prior to joining thePlayhouse, Rosen was Artistic Director of Kansas City Repertory Theater from 2008 to 2018, which he helped achieve national prominence, regularly sending productions to Broadway and to major stages across the country. Rosen co-founded and led Chicago’s About Face Theater, the nationally recognized LGBTQ theater company that has provided innovative theater and educational programming for nearly three decades. As a playwright and director, Rosen’s most notable productions include Venice at the Public Theater (named “Best of the Year” by Time), Clay, which inaugurated Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, the Jeff and Barrymore award winning musical Winesburg Ohio, and his first play Dream Boy, which has been seen across the US. He has developed new shows that have gone on to win the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Awards and nominations, and productions on stages across the world.  His lauded film Netuser stars Denis O’Hare and can be streamed on Tiny Scripted. He is at work on Stoker, a new musical about the rivalry between Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, with composer Rodney Bush. He divides his time between Dennis and NYC, with his husband, actor Claybourne Elder, and their son Bo, their proudest achievement.

Nora Carey

 Executive Director
nora@capeplayhouse.com

Nora has over 30 years of management experience in non-profit, corporate, and public/private sectors with leadership roles in Business Development, Marketing & Communications, and Project Management. A long-term resident in Europe, yet a MA native, Nora launched her professional career in London – where she developed and implemented a successful Thames-side retail & restaurant strategy for Sir Terence Conran. Moving on to Paris, she was part of the opening team for Disneyland Resort Paris – responsible for the menu development of 27 themed restaurants and subsequently developed and managed a Creative Services department. Following her position with Disneyland Paris, Nora joined the Hotel Ritz in Paris as Marketing & Communications Director before returning stateside as the Director of the annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival for five years. Other culinary adventures include the establishment of the non-profit Bocuse d’Or USA organization with chefs Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Jerome Bocuse and she served as the Executive Director of the Boston Public Market Association, collaborating with the Board of Trustees to develop the business plan for the emerging year-round farmer’s market in the Haymarket district. Nora has been with the Cape Playhouse since 2019 and feels that she has come full-circle since her childhood summers in Eastham. Nora has an MBA and a professional French Culinary Diploma. She is bilingual in English and French and the author of several cookbooks, including the award-winning Perfect Preserves and a successful fundraising volume for the UK Pancreatic Research Fund.