Shilkret Is Named Executive Director of Cerritos Center
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CERRITOS — Wayne Shilkret, executive director of the Pasadena Symphony Assn. for seven years, has been named executive director of the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, effective July 21.
Shilkret, 63, was executive director of performing arts at the Ambassador Foundation in Pasadena from 1976 to 1989, when he became the Hollywood Bowl’s general manager. He joined the Pasadena Symphony the next year.
He succeeds Victor Gotesman, who led the Cerritos Center from its opening in 1992 through last November.
Shilkret’s “depth and breadth of experience are what we were looking for,” said Kurt Swanson, who heads the city’s community and cultural services department and has been the center’s acting director. “He’s very adept in programming as well as marketing and seems to have a good financial sense.”
Shilkret was chosen from a short list of three people, including Walter Morlock, the center’s marketing director. He will be paid $79,320 a year plus medical benefits of $725 a month and a car allowance of $300 a month, center officials said.
Cerritos Center, which has a seating capacity of 1,700, operates on an annual budget of $7.9 million.
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