Photo by Michael Macor, The Chronicle — Photo by Michael Macor, *The Chronicle*

Hunting Love publicity shot by Shoot That Klown — *Hunting Love* publicity shot by Shoot That Klown

FSM at Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2013 photo by Jim Norrena — *FSM* at Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2013
photo by Jim Norrena

Logo designed by Marcus Brooks

Art Administration Consulting

Interim Management | Audience Engagement | Events Production | Grant Writing

Interim Management Positions

Artistic or Executive Management
Executive Producing
Grants Management
Recent clients: Theatre Bay Area, Playwrights Foundation, Magic Theatre

Audience Attraction/Engagement

Brand & Mission Evaluation
Audience development: including millennials and affinity audiences
Audience engagement environments & activities: design, implementation & marketing
Special project design for museums & other cultural/historical sites
Recent clients:
Nat'l Park Service (Rosie the Riveter Museum: "Inviting Mannequins to 'Tell THEIR stories'")
Golden Thread Prods: military audience development for We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War
Marin Shakespeare Festival: millennial & politically active audiences for The Taming

Events Production

Small & large events—galas to intimate gatherings
Theme design & implementation
Marketing & invitation concept & management
Presenters & activities
Food & product donations
Silent & live auctions
Recent clients: Women's International Networking Conference, Theatre Bay Area

Grant Writing

20 years experience with arts, education, child welfare & health care organizations
Government, foundation & corporate RFPs and reporting
Grant research & identification
Experience with large & small organizations
Recent clients: Nor. Cal. Public Media, Alphabet Rockers, Epiphany Dance, Magic Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, TheatreFIRST, KC Chalk & Walk, Connect-a-Kid

Producing

Producer/Director, Neighborhood Stories (2020 - present)

Conception and production of a progressive variety-performance event in which artists perform short acts for audiences in cars. See neighborhood-stories.com.

Producer/Director, Theatre Bay Area Awards (2017 - present)

Vision & implementation of annual regional theater awards event at the Herbst Theater on behalf of Bay Area theater's local service organization, serving over 250 theater companies and handing out over 100 awards on a single night.

theme selection (2017 Theme: Celebrating our Artistic Home)
script writing
event layout & timeline
hiring & direction of hosts, presenters & performers
hiring, contracting & supervision of production staff
ticketing & site coordination, including coordination with Herbst staff
coordination with Theatre Bay Area personnel re: staffing & marketing

Instigator (one of a producing collective): Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival (baWTF)
Executive Producer: baWTF Mini-Festival (2022) and
Curator: Amplify! 24-Hour Performance Festival (2020)

Originated the idea and producer, among a team of 5, of a 24-Hour performance festival scheduled to host 200+ performers on three stages and interstitial spaces at Brava! Theater Center. Live event postponed due to COVID shut-down. Shorter online event produced April 18, 2020. Returned in 2022 to produce a hybrid on-line/in person mini-festival of readings every Monday March - April - May, 2022
13 Mondays, 13 Readings in two mini-festivals
BIWOC+ Writers (1st/3rd Mondays)
Classical Women Writers (2nd/4th/and one 5th Mondays)

Co-Producer/Director, Hunting Love (2016)

Co-producing, with the playwright, and directing Susan-Jane Harrison's world premiere movement-play. My portion of the work included:

site scouting, booking, and logistics
some marketing writing
budgeting
hiring, contracting, and supervision of production staff (SM, designers and actors)

Executive Producer, Bay Area Playwrights Festival (2013 & 2014)

All duties required to produce one of the nation’s top 5 new play development events:

festival concept/themes
play selection (6 plays chosen from 500 – 600 submissions per year)
hiring & contracting of production staff (artistic, technical, marketing, and support)
event production conception and implementation (festival features 12 play readings and two weeks’ worth of parties, seminars, talks, roundtables, workshops and networking functions)
budgeting
marketing writing & editing
supervision of Marketing Director, Production Manager, Technical Director and 7 interns

In my first year at the company, we doubled attendance and income from the previous year, selling out all but one performances.

Line Producer, Primate Cinema: Apes as Family, Los Angeles (2011)

Line producer for the scenes involving human actors within this science/art collaborative film made for chimpanzees in the Edinburgh Zoo:

locations & permitting
on-site logistics
child-actor wrangling
prop & food purchase

Founding Artistic Director, Woman’s Will (1998 – 2009)

Founder, producer, and director responsible for all aspects of administrative and artistic production/program management for company's 21 productions, 10 24-Hour PlayFest playwriting events, and annual fundraising event, including:

artistic & programmatic curation
creative concept & event development/curation
brand development
educational curriculum development
financial & budgetary matters
grant writing & fundraising
community & media relations
audience engagement activities design & implementation
casting & supervision of performers, technical personnel, teachers and volunteers
booking & tour management
production duties, including directing & occasional acting