For Immediate Release: March 13, 2007
Media Contact: Lisa Higgins, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, 610.282.WILL x4

The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Board of Directors has expanded its ranks with the additions of Harry G. Dimopoulos, Ph.D, M.B.A., of Saucon Valley, Christine Hurst Perrucci, J.D. of Bethlehem, and June Schlueter, Ph.D., of Easton.

"The PSF Board represents the diverse region we serve and we are honored to have their expertise contribute to our organization," says Paul Domalakes, board president. "PSF's capacity for growth is strengthened by the addition of our newest board members, particularly given their extraordinary accomplishments."

Harry G. Dimopoulos, Ph.D, M.B.A.

For over three decades until his retirement in early 2006, Dr. Dimopoulos held numerous management positions at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., building the company's businesses outside the U.S. He has lived in London, England and Barcelona, Spain, and has managed various AP businesses in Europe, Asia and in Latin America. For 5 years prior to his retirement, he served as Director of Corporate Strategic Planning responsible for managing all aspects of business planning in the company and contributing to the development of its current successful strategy.

Dr. Dimopoulos currently consults on management, finance and strategy with a few small companies and non-profits. In addition to his role at PSF, he serves on the Board of Trustees of Moravian College, where he chairs the Finance Committee, and is on the Board of Directors of the Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley, Inc. While responsible for Air Products' businesses in Asia, he served on the Board of Directors of seven Asian companies. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Robert College (now Bosphorus University), Istanbul, Turkey, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a master's degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Christine Hurst Perrucci, J.D.

Ms. Perrucci is Of Counsel at the Bethlehem offices of Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & Fader, a regional law firm founded by former New Jersey Governor James J. Florio and Michael J. Perrucci. Ms. Perrucci handles civil litigation serving clients in the areas of real estate, municipal, family, labor and employment, and personal injury law. She holds an undergraduate degree, received cum laude, from Kutztown University and a Juris Doctorate from The Dickinson School of Law.

In law school, she was vice president of the Corpus Juris Society and a member of the Environmental Law Society, Women's Law Caucus, Delta Theta Phi Law fraternity and the Public Interest Law Fund. As a student, she was a legal intern with the Family Law Clinic, working with low-income clients in domestic and juvenile matters. She is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

June Schlueter, Ph.D.

Following 13 years as Provost at Lafayette College, Dr. Schlueter returned to her position there as Charles A. Dana Professor of English. Her major academic fields are Modern Drama, Shakespeare and Early Modern England. Dr. Schlueter has published 12 books, including Reading Shakespeare in Performance: King Lear and Dramatic Closure: Reading the End.

Dr. Schlueter served as editor of Acts of Criticism: Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (with Paul Nelsen) and An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers (with Dr. Paul Schlueter). From 1983-2003, she co-edited Shakespeare Bulletin, a journal of performance criticism and scholarship. A Fulbright Professor, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and her master's from Hunter College, both in New York City, and her bachelor's, magna cum laude, from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.

"Each of these new board members brings a unique perspective to the work of the Festival, on stage and off," says Producing Artistic Director Patrick Mulcahy. "I look forward to working directly with each of them."

The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, a professional theatre company in residence at DeSales University, is recognized as one of the top 20 Shakespeare festivals nationwide by Jim Volz, editor of quarto, the newsletter of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America (STAA). The official Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, PSF attracts audiences of 25,000 - 30,000 from 22 states each year.

PSF's 16th season features Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, June 13 - July 1; The Taming of the Shrew, July 18 - August 5; Amadeus June 20 - July 8, The Mystery of Irma Vep July 11 - August 5 and Winnie the Pooh, June 2 - August 4. Linda Lapos and Paul Wirth are the Season Sponsors. Associate Season Sponsors are: the Harry C. Trexler Trust, The Morning Call and Service Electric Cable TV & Communications.

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