Bari Newport is the Producing Artistic Director of GableStage Theatre Company in Miami, where she has led extraordinary artistic and institutional growth since succeeding the legendary Joseph Adler in 2021. Under her leadership, GableStage has more than tripled in size, achieved record subscriptions and earned three consecutive Carbonell Awards for Outstanding Production.

Known for her bold theatrical imagination and meticulous dramaturgy, Newport brings a distinctive visual and physical language to her directing. Her GableStage productions include The Lehman Trilogy, Appropriate, A Doll's House, Part 2, Left on Tenth and Prayer for the French Republic, among others.

Newport believes a theatre company is a citizen in its community, a philosophy reflected in everything from distributing hundreds of potted plants on Earth Day and establishing Give a Dog a Bone Thursdays to creating deeply-rooted education and community engagement programs. Her work combines artistic ambition with an inventive commitment to making theatre an essential part of civic life.

Previously, Newport served nine-and-a-half seasons as Producing Artistic Director of Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor, Maine, leading significant artistic, financial and institutional growth. Her tenure expanded the company's professional infrastructure, established a resident company of artists and developed enduring community partnerships throughout the region.

Earlier positions include Artistic Associate at the Alliance Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse, Associate Producer at Horizon Theatre Company and Associate Director at Florida Repertory Theatre. Her directing and acting work has been seen at regional theatres across the country.

Newport holds a BFA from the University of Southern California, an MFA from the University of Iowa and is a longtime member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and Actors' Equity Association.

She is currently leading GableStage's preparations to become the resident professional theatre company at the restored Coconut Grove Playhouse, with the ambition of establishing a major regional theatre for Miami and future generations.