Mr. Orchard co-founded the American Repertory Theatre with Robert Brustein in 1979 and served as the Company's Managing Director for twenty-one years. Recently, he was also appointed Director of the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard. Prior to 1979, he was Managing Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the School of Drama for seven years, where he also served as Associate Professor and Co-Chairman of the Theatre Administration Department. For the past fifteen years, Mr. Orchard has been active facilitating exchanges, leading seminars, and advising on public policy with theatre professionals and government officials in Russia. Mr. Orchard has served as Chairman of both the Theatre and the Opera/Musical Theatre Panels at the National Endowment for the Arts, on the Board and Executive Committee of the American Arts Alliance, the national advocacy association for the performing and visual arts, and as a trustee of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the American professional theatre and publisher of American Theatre magazine. Mr. Orchard recently received the Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence.