John McCormack, who nurtured emerging writers, directors, actors and designers on the New York not-for-profit theater scene for nearly four decades, has died.
He was 61. McCormack died May 18 "of natural causes related to COVID-19" in his home in Queens, International Arts Relations Inc.
announced. He had served as executive director of INTAR, a theater devoted to producing new work by Latino playwrights in English, since 2006. "The loss of John McCormack is not just a loss for INTAR but for the off-Broadway theater community as well," artistic director Lou Moreno said in a statement. "He was a living history of off-Broadway.