Burton Naiditch

Burton Naiditch (image from Slide 83 in New Games Slide Show)

 

Along with many other roles, Burton Naiditch could be considered the voice of the New Games Foundation. He is the main narrator of the New Games Slide Show.

 

Stepping up to run the Foundation after Pat (Rose) Farrington left to spread New Games in Australia, Burton invited John O'Connell to join him as co-director. Their vision became a training program that would create New Gamesters in cities across the United States and beyond. Burton successfully wrote a grant to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation that allowed the Foundation to hire two additional staff and develop a national training program.

 

Burton Naiditch (second from left) with an early New Games Advisory Board (image from Slide 45 in New Games Slide Show)

 

Burton's artistic vision helped steer the Foundation in its next phase.

 

Leading a play session

 

 

Burton at the end of the Third New Games Tournament (slide 176 of the NG Slide Show)