Experience

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  Riddle Me Opera

  • Writer (volunteer position)

    • Aug 2020 - Present

    I create the content for Riddle Me Opera, an online comedy game show produced by Vineyard Touring Opera Company. Each month's episode is broadcast live as a FaceBook event, and recordings may be found on YouTube.

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  New Playwrights Foundation

  • Santa Monica

  • Treasurer and Board Member (volunteer position)

    • Sep 1999 - Present
    • Santa Monica

    As a member of the Board of Directors of New Playwrights Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable corporation founded in 1969, I maintain donation records and file annual taxes and Registry of Charitable Trusts reports. I edit and distribute the monthly Newsletter; update the website; and maintain the c...

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  Exsultate! Productions

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Founder and Artistic Director (volunteer position)

    • 1990 - Present
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    Under the service mark Exsultate! Productions, I produced three events for the Music Performance Trust of American Federation of Musicians Local 47 for which I contracted singers, musicians, conductors, and directors; rented local performance venues; arranged event insurance; and created press re...

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  American Estate Investments, Inc.

  • Beverly Hills

  • Assistant to the President

    • Mar 2017 - Apr 2021
    • Beverly Hills

    I assisted the President of this property development/management company with multi-family and commercial assets in California and Arizona.

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  James A. Kaplan

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Executive Administrator

    • Jun 1999 - Feb 2017
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    Formed, registered, and operated a series of 15 Internet-based limited liability companies* created by James A. Kaplan in the fields of luxury travel; investment analytics; online wine sales; hedge fund management; publishing; and popular music. Responsibilities encompassed legal support, regula...

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  Audit Integrity

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Executive Assistant

    • 2002 - 2014
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    Audit Integrity was created to provide forensic tools to expose malfeasance in corporate governance and accounting. My responsibilities included executive correspondence, investor support, sales support, patents and trademarks, office leasing and management, research and reporting, customer subsc...

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  CMS BondEdge an Interactive Data Company

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Executive Assistant

    • 1989 - 1999
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    As Executive Assistant to James A. Kaplan, the Founder and CEO of Capital Management Sciences, I was responsible for correspondence, contracts, billing, Board of Directors support, vendor relations, event management, and personnel management. I supervised the office manager, receptionist, operat...

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  Gascon Institute for Sports Education and the Arts

  • Culver City, CA

  • Co-creator and Managing Director (volunteer position)

    • Jun 1984 - Dec 1989
    • Culver City, CA

    As co-creator and managing director of the Gascon Institute for Sports Education and the Arts, I managed the build-out of Westside Fencing Center, later expanding the space to accommodate instruction in the performing arts. During that period we produced performances by Peace Child Repertory The...

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  Los Angeles Philharmonic

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Administrative Assistant / Executive Assistant

    • 1973 - 1980
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    Responsible for supporting the executive director, concerts manager, and music director, managing their correspondence, meetings, contracts, union negotiations, and any other tasks that arose. I assisted with Musicians Union contract negotiations; ran one concert each week during the winter seas...

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  ItalPacific Productions

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Hostess of Italian language TV program

    • 1972 - 1976
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    As hostess of Los Angeles' Italian language television program, I introduced program segments, was featured in commercials, and did interviews -- most notably, with actor Giancarlo Giannini and opera superstars Luciano Pavarotti and Katia Ricciarelli. After an interview of Oscar-winning cost...