Lara Goetsch
Company Member & Director of Marketing and Communications

Lara has been a company member since 1998 and joined TimeLine's full-time staff in July 2006 as Director of Marketing and Communications. She served as producer for many of TimeLine's early productions, including Summit Conference, No End of Blame, Gaslight, To Live As Variously As Possible, A Cry of Players, Not About Nightingales (6 Joseph Jefferson Citations, including Production), The Crucible (5 Joseph Jefferson Citations, including Production), Awake and Sing! (5 Joseph Jefferson Citations, including Production) and The Lion in Winter. Her other credits with TimeLine include marketing director for numerous productions and serving as a member of the Board of Directors. As a photographer, she has created nearly all of TimeLine's publicity and production photographs since the company's inception.

Lara previously was Director of Marketing and Public Relations at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where she worked for 13 seasons coordinating publicity, marketing strategy and special events for the Midwest's leading theatre training conservatory. In Chicago she has also worked at the Next Theatre, Roadworks Productions and Gateway Theatre Company. She holds a bachelor of science degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and is a founding member and former co-chair of the Medill Alumni Club of Chicago. She is also a member of the Publicity Club of Chicago and serves as chair of the marketing committee of the League of Chicago Theatres.

updated August 2007