Geoffrey Kershner is the founder and Artistic Director of the Endstation Theatre Company based in Central Virginia. He is also an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lynchburg College. Endstation is the winner of the 2012 Rising Star Award (Virginians for the Arts), the 2013 Best Live Theater (News and Advance, Reader's Choice), the 2014 Cultural Organization Award (James River Council for the Arts and Humanities), a 2014 INOV8 Award (City of Lynchburg's Office of Economic Development), and a 2014 Giving Back Award (Lynchburg Living Magazine).
Geoffrey’s direction was recently seen in Endstation Theatre Company’s site specific outdoor productions of Our Town, Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night. He also directed Endstation’s original productions of The Mind of Poe, The Bluest Water: A Hurricane Camille Story and My Brother’s Knife. He earned his BFA in acting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, his MFA in directing from Florida State University and is a graduate of the Arden Theatre Company's professional apprenticeship program. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society SDA and the Lincoln Center's Directors Lab.
Geoffrey serves on the Virginia Commission for the Arts (Area 2) grant review panel, The James River Arts District project grant review panel, the board of the James River Council for the Arts and Humanities, and is an arts and culture consultant for the City of Lynchburg's Economic Development Authority. He is also a participant in the National Arts Strategies' 2014-2015 Chief Executive Program.
