Experience

Theatre Charlotte

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  • Jan 2005 - Present

  administrator and artistic director of non-profit community theatre; budgeting and implementation of $625,000 budget; marketing; public relations; fund raising and grant writing; programming and community engagement; strategic planning; youth programming; volunteer recruitment and retention; play selection; artistic direction; personnel supervision (full time staff of 4); working with volunteer board of directors; public spokesperson for theatre; representative to Arts and Science Council; sample of productions supervised include: Jesus Christ Superstar; The Normal Heart: Harvey; Footloose; Hair; Gypsy; Arsenic and Old Lace; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Avenue Q; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Foreigner; In the Heat of the Night; The Music Man; Rent; The Graduate; The Glass Menagerie; Annie: A Christmas Carol; Steel Magnolias; Death of a Salesman; A Streetcar Named Desire; A Chorus Line; Oliver!; To Kill a Mockingbird; Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Crucible. Accomplishments: 2015 Charlotte Magazine Best of the Best Theatre Company Award 2013 North Carolina Theatre Conference Herman Middleton Distinguished Service Award 2013 Metrolina Theatre Association Theatre Person of the Year 2011 Metrolina Theatre Association Theatre Company of the Year 2010-2011 season at 97% capacity with $75,000 budget surplus The Glass Menagerie with African American cast presented in March, 2011; 90% capacity attendance (40% African American). Jesus Christ Superstar, produced in 2015, the highest grossing production in 87 year history of Theatre Charlotte 2009 NCTC Community Theatre Award 2008 Arts and Science Council Cultural Partner Award 2007-2013Board of Directors of North Carolina Theatre Conference (President from 2009 through 2013) Show less



Carolinas Concert Association

• Executive Director

  • Oct 2003 - Jun 2005

  Presenter of international symphony orchestras, ballet companies, vocalists, and instrumentalists; a resident company of the NC Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, presenting 5 to 6 concerts a year at the Belk Theatre.

• EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  • Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  Now known as Charlotte Concerts; administrator of non-profit organization presenting premier international symphony orchestras, instrumentalists, vocalists, and ballet companies, including New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Moscow Festival Ballet, Shanghai Ballet, Itzhak Perlman, and others; budgeting and implementation of $500,000 budget; marketing; public relations; personnel supervision; development, including grant writing; events planning; scheduling; booking; strategic planning; supervision of extensive education program, including Ticket Outreach, master classes and in-school workshops with world-class international musicians and dancers. Show less



JCC MetroWest

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• MANAGER

  • Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  OF EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS, CENTER FOR THE ARTS Responsibilities: administration and supervision of classes in visual arts, drama, dance, music, creative writing and film; curriculum development; enrollment; marketing; producing community theatre productions; administration of annual residency of Missoula Children’s Theatre; supervising Poets Forum, including a highly successful High School Poetry Reading Night; supervising an adult community orchestra; planning and programming; budgeting; personnel hiring; fundraising; grant writing; marketing; public relations; and Accomplishments: New Jersey coordinator of “Art for the Heart” program, organized by Mayor Bloomberg’s Office (NYC) for children of 9/11 victims. Producing community theatre production of “The Wizard of Oz” featuring a cast of 50 Show less



East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

  • Jan 1999 - Jan 2002

  teaching acting 1, 2; introduction to theatre; comic technique; children’s theatre; theatre history 1 and 2; serving as Director of Children’s Theatre, including budgeting, marketing, public relations, and community outreach; member, University lecture series committee; faculty advisor to student theatre organizations; advisor to majors, minors and non-majors Accomplishments: directed Rags to Riches, directed You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown directed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. teaching acting 1, 2; introduction to theatre; comic technique; children’s theatre; theatre history 1 and 2; serving as Director of Children’s Theatre, including budgeting, marketing, public relations, and community outreach; member, University lecture series committee; faculty advisor to student theatre organizations; advisor to majors, minors and non-majors Accomplishments: directed Rags to Riches, directed You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown directed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.



Marymount Manhattan College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AND RECRUITING ASSOCIATE

  • Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  teaching acting 1; recruiting for theatre department; assisting with national auditions of approximately 700 students; advisor to theatre majors and minors. teaching acting 1; recruiting for theatre department; assisting with national auditions of approximately 700 students; advisor to theatre majors and minors.



High Point University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor

  • Jan 1984 - Jan 1997

  Teaching Acting 1, 2, 3; Directing, Script Analysis; Theatre History 1 and 2; Creative Drama; Speech; Voice and Diction; Introduction to Theatre; Administration of theatre program, including curriculum planning and development; budgeting; class scheduling; recruiting and retention; hiring and supervision of instructors; maintaining two theatre facilities; public relations; and community outreach; member of concert and lecture committee; faculty advisor to student theatre organizations; academic advisor to theatre majors, minors and non-majors; faculty advisor to Theta Chi Fraternity; teaching in Elderhostel program; directing two productions per year, including The Crucible; Oliver!; Annie; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Anything Goes; The American Clock; Picnic; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; In White America; Mandragola; The Importance of Being Earnest; Marvin’s Room; Crimes of the Heart; The Good Doctor; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Old Man Joseph and His Family; Bye Bye Birdie; Harvey; and others. Show less



INTERNATIONAL THEATRE INSTITUTE / US

• PROGRAM DIRECTOR

  • Jan 1989 - Jan 1990

  Distinguished Teaching Service award as University’s teacher of the year 1989 Directed Off-Off Broadway production of A Slim and Crooked Genius at the Westbank Theatre (now the Laurie Beechman Theatre; Increased annual productions from 2 to 4 per year; Service organization founded by UNESCO and now a part of TCG to provide for the exchange of information and services among theatres worldwide.; providing orientation to US theatre for visiting foreign theatre artists; organizing and promoting master classes, workshops, and seminars,; writing for and editing an international newsletter; grant writing; working with Board of Directors, including Harold Prince, Ellen Stewart, Beatrice Straight, Lloyd Richards, George White. Accomplishments: Coordinated master classes at LaMama ETC featuring Peter Brook and his international theatre company Coordinated seminar with Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre of Lincoln Center Coordinated workshops with the Bulandra Theatre Company of Romania Organized and coordinated 35 day tour of major US theatres and theatre training programs for a group of Eastern European, Soviet-bloc theatre professionals, including directors, designers and writers from USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and East Germany Assisted Harold Clurman with preparations for a paper on US theatre to be delivered to the International Theatre Institute Bi-annual conference in Paris, France, 1980 Show less