Sean Daniels Phoenix Rising

SEAN DANIELS IS ABOUT TO START HIS DREAM JOB.

Growing up in Mesa, Ariz., he and his family were regulars at Arizona Theatre Company. When the job of leading ATC became open earlier last year, Daniels leapt at the chance; he starts there as artistic director this month. His theatre gigs in the interim have ranged from Atlanta’s improv hub Dad’s Garage to Actors Theatre of Louisville and Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, N.Y.; his most recent job was as artistic director of Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Mass.

ROB WEINERT-KENDT: Congrats on the new job, and on going back to your home state. Regarding Merrimack, where was the organization when you