Dynamic performing arts professional with over 30 years industry experience, 25 served in senior organizational leadership as producer and Artistic Director. A gregarious coach, encouraging team-leader and diplomatic consensus builder with a proven track record of inclusive programming and community engagement, strong sales, capacity attendance and fiscal responsibility. An avowed arts lover devoted to the crafts of producing, acting and directing; with entrepreneurial origins as a grassroots company organizer equally at home in immersive, site-specific environments, traditional proscenium stages, or black-tie fundraising events. A steadfast, loyal and playful dream deviser and opportunity-maker.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION
I've always upheld the belief that the Theater should be a space that is open and available to all, and that our strength and the sacredness of our call relies upon accessibility, humble service and the egalitarian welcoming of all disparate voices, thoughts and beings into the dialogue of our shared human experience. My work in this capacity is ever-evolving, and has been supported by a myriad of diverse partnerships and collaborations spanning the three decades of my practice in the performing arts.
Associate Produced the 6-week Off Broadway run of HITLER'S TASTERS by Michelle Kholos Brooks, having joined the all-women creative team led by Director Sarah Norris after having presented the play for a limited run at Guild Hall in September 2021. Excellent reviews, including mentions in The NY Times, The NY Post, the BBC and a 4-star Critic's Pick in TimeOut NY. Development of the project continues with an eye towards an expanded run and a shift to episodic TV.
Managed every aspect of historic 360-seat proscenium theater in high-profile resort community including: selecting, planning, presenting and producing multi-discipline performing arts programming; creating and operating season program budgets; contract negotiations and management with talent, arts managers, agents, venue rentals and labor unions; decision making on marketing, publicity and educational outreach campaigns; fundraising and special events management; fostering long-term board, celebrity and community relationships; developing and maintaining active partnerships with world-class artists and arts organizations; facilities and personnel management for teams up to 100; box office and production management. Coordinated with Robert AM Stern and Jules Fisher/Josh Dachs Associates on 3-year, $14 million capital campaign and theater renovation. Founded in 1931, Guild Hall is a performing arts center and accredited museum with a $5 million annual operating budget.
Responsible for selecting plays and projects; contracting artistic, administrative and production personnel; creating and overseeing $250k budget, marketing campaigns and press relations with local and national media; establishing and maintaining relationships with individual, corporate and government funders; and guiding the overall artistic integrity of a grassroots, not-for-profit, start-up arts organization dedicated to providing free classic theater on Eastern Long Island. Hamptons Shakespeare Festival producing credits include: The Tempest and tour; As You Like It and tour; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Romeo & Juliet; Kids Luv Shakespeare and Camp Shakespeare educational programs; Benefits hosted by Richard Avedon.
The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC; Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, NY; Judson Memorial Church, NYC; Children's Theatre Co., Minneapolis; Circle in the Square, NYC; The Theater at Monmouth, ME; Mulford Repertory Theater, East Hampton, NY; Neo Political Cowgirls, NYC; Classic Theatre International, Germany; Hamptons Shakespeare Festival; LTV Studios; and various Off-Off Broadway, NYC.
Film - Wanderland (2018); God's Favor (2013); Saving Caroline (2011); various Commercials and Radio Voice Over.
NYC Broadway Conservatory focused on scene study, stage combat, mask & mime, Linklater vocal technique, speech & diction, musical theater, classical text and Alexander Technique
Double Major English/Art & Art History
Studied abroad at The University of Stockholm, Sweden
Member and annual conference attendee.
Colgate University, Guest Lecturer - Shakespeare's Tempest in Production 1999; Hamlet in Production 2005.
Brewery Lane Theater, Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland - Guest Lecturer 1999
The Morriss Center High School, East Hampton, NY - Scene Study 2004-2005
Springs School, East Hampton, NY - Shakespeare Page to Stage 2010-2014
The John Drew Theater, East Hampton, NY - Scene Study and Monologues, Private Coaching 2005-2016
The Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor, NY - Literature Live Series 2013, 2015
Joy Behar, Television Host and Comedienne
email: joybehar1@gmail.com
646-872-2979
Susan Stroman, Director and Choreographer
email: office@stromanproductions.com
212-765-6451
Anne Chaisson, Executive Director
Hamptons Film / Hamptons International Film Festival
email: achaisson@hamptonsfilmfest.org
917-941-5716
Henry Schleiff, Executive Producer
Former President/GM at ID-Investigation Discovery network
email: schleiffhenry@gmail.com
646-460-7180
Bob Balaban, Actor/Director/Producer
email: BB@chicagofilms.com
212-721-7700
Blythe Danner, Actor
email: woofbdp@gmail.com
917-226-2220
Interview with Patrick Christiano.