Dobie a legit choice to top Trinity Rep

B'way credits include 'Sunset,' 'Tom Sawyer'

By ROBERT HOFLER

Edgar Dobie succeeds William P. Wingate as managing director of Trinity Rep in Providence, R.I. Wingate leaves the not-for-profit theater company after three seasons. Dobie takes over his new post in September. Oskar Eustis continues as artistic director there.

The managing director oversees all business operations at Trinity Rep.

Dobie worked in the nonprofit theater world from 1979 to 1988, notably as founding managing director of Toronto's Canadian Stage Co., and general manager of CentreStage and National Arts Centre, English Theater. From 1992 to 1997, he was president of Andrew Lloyd Webber's the Really Useful Co.

'Boulevard' on Broadway

His Broadway credits include "Sunset Boulevard," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "The Capeman" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

This year, Dobie produced workshops of two new musicals: "Mask" by Anna Hamilton Phelan, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil; and "Tom Jones" by Larry Grossman and the late James Goldman.

Regarding those projects, Dobie said, "They are in the development stage. I'm producing with partners, and because of my new position with Trinity Rep I have very much taken a back seat on them."