Veteran Cincinnati actor Greg Procaccino (he's been featured as Jacob Marley in the Playhouse in the Park's version of "Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for the past decade or so) repleaces Elizabeth A. Harris as NET's artistic director.

Harris has moved to Pittsburgh to pursue her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon.

Nathan Gabriel, comes on board in the new position of associate producer. Locally, Gabriel has performed and directed at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the Performance Gallery and the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, where he most recently helped to direct "godsplay."

While working on a major staff transition, NET will produce three shows in 2006-07, said executive director Michael Schooner, as well as an all-new Director’s Competition.

The schedule:

• "An Evening in Durang(o)" by Christopher Durang, Nov 2–18, a collection of three Durang one-acts, "The Actor’s Nightmare," "'Dentity Crisis" and "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls."

• "Master Harold and the Boys" by Athol Fugard, Feb 1–17. Perhaps Fugard’s best known play, this largely auto-biographical piece addresses the genesis of bigotry and hatred – and how it insidiously poisons entire cultures.

• Cincinnati Director’s Competition, March 1-11. NET’s first annual festival celebrating the one-act form and showcasing directors and actors from near and far who will compete for the top prize money.

• "Fool For Love" by Sam Shepard, May 10–26. One of America's most heralded and prolific playwrights, creates Eddie and May, the quintessence of dysfunctional, emotionally co-dependent love/hate.

This will also New Edgecliff's third full season at the Columbia Performance Center in Columbia-Tusculum, 3900 Eastern Ave.

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A version of this story ran in the Go! entertainment supplement to the JournalNews, Hamilton, Ohio, on Aug. 18, 2006.