joined Dallas Theater Center in July 2015 as the managing director. For seven years prior to that he served as the managing director of Syracuse Stage, a professional theater-in-residence at Syracuse University.  From 1991-2008, he was the managing director of the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, New Jersey.  During his tenure, the McCarter was honored with the Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theater.  He has also held administrative positions with Hartford Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Northlight Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and has served as a consultant to a number of theaters.  Woodward has been a member of the board of Theater Communications Group; president of ArtPride New Jersey, a statewide arts advocacy organization; panel chair and an on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts; and an adjunct professor of theater management at Syracuse University.  He holds a BA from Pomona College and an MBA from New York University.