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SPECIAL EVENTS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

 

Special Events | Fundraising Galas | Large-Scale Events | Entertainment Premieres | Lectures |

Cocktail Receptions | Gallery Openings | Staged Readings | Full Productions

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  • Accomplished Executive Producer with an entrepreneurial vision and proven track record

  • Excellent in collaborating with Board Members | Gala Committees including recruitment, cultivation, and sustainability

  • Over 40 years of experience in professional theatre

  • Award-winning Director (resume available upon request)

  • Highly proficient in theatre arts administration | casting | contract negotiation | budget | scheduling

  • Excellent time management skills with the capacity to multi-task

  • Exceedingly well-organized and independent worker

  • Excellent marketing and community outreach and development

  • Outgoing Personality with community outreach and relations

  • Maintain a knowledge and understanding of the arts and cultural landscape

Clients Include

Columbia University

Wynton Marsalis

Buglisi Dance Theatre

The Theatre Museum

Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation

Fes Festival Morocco

Garrison Institute

Bill Irwin

Sam Waterston

Abigail Disney

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Leymah Gbowee

Philip Glass

Interfaith Center of NY

Executive Producer

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Produced and Directed

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CERULLO REHEARSAL
CERULLO LEGS DAMOND REHEARSAL
CHRISTINE ANDREAS RHEARSAL
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Christopher Wheeldon

Gold Medal Honoree 

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON

Associate Producer
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Dance Consultant

Executive Producer - Conrack,  The Musical - York Theatre Company Development Reading Series 2017

Cast and Creative Team
Drama Desk Nominee A.J. Shively w/ Playwright Granville Burgess
TONY Nomiee Vivian Reed

27 ANNUAL JOE A. CALLAWAY AWARDS

FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE CRAFT AND ART OF DIRECTING AND CHOREOGRAPHY

PRODUCER

BILL CASTELLINO AND JONATHAN CERULLO

NEWS  Joe A. Callaway Award Winners Announced

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BY ROBERT VIAGAS

OCT 25, 2016

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Jack O’Brien co-hosted the October 24 ceremony honoring Off-Broadway directors and choreographers.

The cast of Trip of Love (Monica Simoes)

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The 27th Annual Joe A. Callaway Awards for direction and choreography Off-Broadway were presented October 24 by the Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC) Foundation at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York. This year’s awards (for work in the 2015-2016 season) were presented to Sarah Benson for her direction of Futurity, produced by Soho Rep and Ars Nova; and to James Walski for his choreography of Trip of Love, at Stage 42.

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Director Jack O’Brien and choreographer Joshua Bergasse (the creative team behind the upcoming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) hosted the ceremony, which featured performances by David Elder and Martyn Axe from Trip of Love; and Sammy Tunis, César Alvarez, and Eric Farber from Futurity.

The Joe A. Callaway Award recognizes excellence during the Off-Broadway theatre season from September 1, 2015-August 31, 2016, and is the only award given by professional directors and choreographers to their peers for work on a specific production.

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At this year’s ceremony, SDC Foundation announced the winner of the new “Breakout Award.” The inaugural award went to Ed Sylvanus Iskandar. The Breakout Award is to be presented annually to an SDC Member for a production or selection of work that signals a shift in a career, the beginning of critical recognition in the Off-Broadway arena.

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The Callaway Award was first presented in 1989, and past winners include Andy Blankenbuehler, Thomas Kail, Moisés Kaufman, Joe Mantello, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Giovanna Sardelli and Julie Taymor. This award is given annually and serves as a complement to the Zelda Fichandler Award, which recognizes a regional director changing the landscape of their community, and the “Mr. Abbott” Award, presented in recognition of lifetime achievement in theatre.

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The 2015-2016 Callaway Committee Members were Sue Lawless (Chair), Jonathan Cerullo (Vice-Chair), William G. Martin Jr., Barry McNabb, Edie Cowan, John Going, Richard Hamburger, DJ Salisbury, Amy Saltz and Clinton Turner Davis.

Annual Event Producer Interfaith Center of New York

 

  • Supervise and administer invitations, mailings, announcements through MS Outlook and Excel

 

  • Maintain membership database with updates, corrections, and additions through MS Excel

 

  • Work meticulously with Executive Director, Development Director and Board Members on special events

 

  • Assist with scheduling and preparation of committee meetings, conference calls, board meetings, and conference room

 

  • Assist with event budget preparation

 

  • Coordinate logistics, process event registrations, generate confirmations to registrants, make badges, and compile attendance lists.

 

  • Conduct Internet searches

Abigail Disney
Wynton Marsalis
Day By Day
With Estelle Parsons
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BROADWAY CARES | EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS

ANNUAL FLEA MARKET

SDC Chairperson

2011 - Current

Grew contributions over four years’ growth from $2,000 to $60,000

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30TH ANNIVERSARY EASTER BONNET COMPETITION

Conceive & Directed

Tea for Two the Bucket Brigade for You!

AMERICAN CIRCUS AWARDS 

Executive Producer and Director

2nd Annual Celebration of American Circus

Honoring 

Bill Irwin

 

Lincoln Center 2016

Produced  by Circus Now and Big Apple Circus

American Circus Award
Performer
Mary Jane Brock and Bill Irwin
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Dolly Jacobs

Producing Director 

PANGEA International Performance

NY Foundation for the Arts | 2014

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Producing Consultant 

(Approved AEA Backers Audition)

The Nutcracker and I

The York Theatre Company | 2013

Music:  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Lyrics:  Tony Honoree, Gerard Alessandrini

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Executive Producer | General Manager

Orphan Train, The Musical

Music: Doug Katsaros | Lyrics: Michael Greer

Book L.E. McCullough

Grand Central 

Centennial Celebrations| 2013

 

  • Supervised production team of 75 creative, technical, production artists

  • Maintained operating budget of $100,000 (came in under budget by 3,000)

  • Collaborated with: Metro North Transit Authority, NYC PD, NYC Street Permits, Historic Landmark Status, liability insurance firms, legal materials, publicity, marketing and advertising firms

  • Coordinated casting filed union contracts 

  • Collaborated closely with technical staff and festival personnel

  • Vendor negotiations 

  • Prepared daily Producers Reports

Photo By Richard Finkelstein

Photo By Richard Finkelstein

EDUCATION​

Emerson College

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Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing ‘82

Minors in Dance, English & Photography

Dean’s List

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Master of Arts Business of Creative Enterprises '24

Boston, MA

 

Scholarships

Commedia Dell’ Arte, Florence, Italy

School Of American Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, NY

Caroline H. Newhouse Scholarship

Career Transition for Dancers 2012

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Commercial Theatre Institute - Alumnus 2012

New York Foundation for the Arts - Alumnus 2012

 

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
please ask for contact information

Karen Jacobsen

Doris Duke Foundation

Mary Jane Brock

Ex Vice Chair Bd. Of Directors

Big Apple Circus

Ellen Greely

Mayors Office City of NY

Patricia Birch

Director Choreographer

Wendy Gardner

Scary Stories Creator

Windywoo and her Naughty Naughty Pets

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