Performing arts professional with extensive experience as a producer, presenter, and grantmaker in theatre, dance, film, and music. Founder/President of The Deep End Productions, providing artist management and performing arts programming services to artists and venues. Clients include GRAMMY Award-winning jazz Singer-Songwriter Nicole Zuraitis, acclaimed Trumpeter/Vocalist/Composer Jumaane Smith, chart-topping jazz/pop Singer-Songwriter Jon Regen, GRAMMY-nominee Dan Pugach (Drummer/Composer), and Mark G. Meadows (Jazz Pianist/Vocalist/Composer and Associate Music Director/Keyboardist on Broadway in "The Outsiders"). From 2010-2023, served as Executive Director of On Stage At Kingsborough, responsible for leading and programming a highly successful, multi-disciplinary performing arts center with three venues: 709-seat mainstage, 1800+ seat outdoor stage, and 240-seat nightclub venue. Previous experience includes founding and producing the award-winning Insights & Revelations Performance Series featuring sneak previews of off-Broadway productions and literary events, Visual Effects Producer at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic, and Managing Director of A Traveling Jewish Theatre. I have served as Producer for Andre Gregory, George Dawes Green, Eve Ensler, James Braly's "Life in a Marital Institution," Stephen Schwartz & Daniel Levine's "Born to Dance," & many others. Special projects that I have conceived and produced include The Race For The Arts (in collaboration with the NYSCA & the NY Road Runners Club), & A Celebration of the Actor at the Public Theater (for The Spencer Cherashore Fund) with Kate Burton, Charles Busch, Charlayne Woodard, John Seitz, & Julie Halston performing original works by Lee Blessing, Migdalia Cruz, Jose Rivera, & James Still.As a grantmaking consultant, I have developed, assessed, & administered grant programs for foundations including The Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund at The New York Community Trust, Theatre Communications Group, AT&T Foundation, The NEA, A.R.T./New York, The Spencer Cherashore Fund, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. I have guest lectured on fundraising at N.Y.U. & A.R.T./New York & have served as a panelist for ArtsWestchester, the NEA, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, PAE, and others. I am a proud recipient of the 2016 Courier News Group Brooklyn Women of Distinction Award and the 2008 Barrow Group's Commitment to Excellence in the Not-for-Profit Theatre Award.
Listed skills include Music, Theatre, Proposal Writing, Arts Administration, and 18 others.