Professional theater names new managing director

NAPLES – Gulfshore Playhouse has named 25-year theater veteran Joel Markus as managing director. A native of Miami, Markus’ career has included some of the country’s leading professional regional theaters, most recently as production manager at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. 

Markus has participated in the production of hundreds of plays over 10 seasons at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, four years at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, N.Y., five seasons at the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisc., and North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Mass.