Douglas Love-Ramos Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Pasadena, California, United States

Orlando, Florida

Provide leadership for this $5 million LOA/LORT theater, including administration, operations, audience and donor growth, financial management, anti-racism, and facilities. Now in its 34th season, Orlando Shakes in Partnership with University of Central Florida is the region’s largest professional theater company, producing classic, contemporary, and new plays in the four venue Lowndes Shakespeare Center. Shakes annually produces a seven-show Signature Series, PlayFest (new play festival), three children's shows, a Cabaret series, and immersive educational programming.Achievements:• Achieved the highest annual appeal support ever breaking records by more than 37% each year of tenure. • Covid reduced earned revenue by 70% - grew contributed revenue by 107%. • Launched new appeal, Homecoming Society, to bridge additional costs associated with returning to indoor theater after Covid. • Increased cash on hand and overall assets by 206% during the pandemic seasons through SVOG, PPP 1 & 2, CARES and ERTC. • During Covid shutdown, moved content online. Delivered every show of the 20-21 AEA season – online with multi-camera video shoots, then outdoors to a 900 seat amphitheater.• Funded a new outdoor theater venue creating a new revenue stream offering concerts, cabarets and events.• Created a PBS partnership to produce a 5 camera shoot - Midsummer Night’s Dream: Making Shakespeare in the Park in a Pandemic.• Reimagined FOH with upgraded bar and food, increasing per patron spending by 114%• Delivered a balanced budget and surplus under independent audit scrutiny.• Strengthened partnership with UCF (3rd year MFA Acting students intern with company).• Co-chair of DEI Committee creating company-wide goals become an anti-racist theater and benchmarks for accountability.• Created a 5-year strategic plan.• Appointed by Orange County Mayor to represent the arts sector on his Task Force for Economic Recovery from Covid-19

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Consulting Producer/Director of this flagship arts education brand, “Learning Through the Arts”. • Served 300,000 public school students (fully funded free tickets and busses) and weekend family performances with this large-scale, professional Actors'​ Equity program.• Commissioned and developed this rock musical of Homer's classic, "The Odyssey” from writers Stephen Cole (Kleban Award) and Billy Straus (Grammy/Emmy). • Supported by Miami Dade County, foundations and corporate sponsorship, including a recent grant from Wells Fargo and ongoing support from the Knight Foundation.

Ashland, Va

• Spearheaded a $4.1M+ capital campaign, renovation, rebranding and relaunch of this historic theatre, curating the programming for a Christmas 2018 opening. • Launched with 27 back-to-back sold out screenings and a successful membership and seat naming campaign. • Created all policies and procedures, staffing, HR, operations, box office systems, hardware and donor database. • Established first run movie series, classic film series, live music series, AARP's Movies for Grownups and community events through successful marketing, social media, sponsorship and film studio relationships.

Buffalo, Ny

Led the $27 million capital campaign and transitioned this 21 year-old children's museum from their home in East Aurora, NY to a brand new, stand alone 43,000 sq. ft. building serving more than 250,000 visitors annually at Canalside - Buffalo's newest waterfront tourist and family destination downtown.

Greater Chicago Area

• Creator of this digital, online subscription-based curriculum product.• Sold to more than 11 million paid subscribers annually in more than 23 countries. • Most popular arts education product/program in the world.• Provides teachers with plays and lessons to teach standards-based core curriculum (Science, History, Math, Reading, Language Arts).

Greater Chicago Area

Led this company-wide initiative to reinvent the way young people use reference online. Love worked with every division of this iconic publishing company to reinvent the way young people use encyclopedias online. This award-winning reference and entertainment subscription product is now the widest used English language paid children's reference site in the world with more than 20 million subscribers. Love also produced and directed WAVE and TELLY award-winning online animated tutorial for the product, creating a dog mascot for the site that was also produced as a plush.

• Hired by founding Board of Directors to “start-up” this history and performing arts hybrid educational institution.• Created a strategic plan for the non-profit’s short and long-range goals and was responsible for their implementa-tion with regular reports to the board.• Created all financial models, budgets, business plans and projections for the operational goals of the company and fiscal accountability to the board.• Worked with municipal agencies, business leaders and government officials to identify a site and strategic partners.• Raised all seed money and sponsorship support as lead fundraiser and represented the museum to the press.• Responsible for all reporting to the IRS during the initial period of determination of its nonprofit status.• Worked closely with architects and designers to conceive the visitor experience and interpret physical design of the space and presentation materials.

Greater New York City Area

• Produced 15 original animal based music videos featuring animation, stock footage and original footage of animals around the globe. • Directed all voice actors and animation with US based animators.• Oversaw all post-production, budgeting, fiscal accountability and operational management.• Negotiated all stock rights and engaged nature filmmakers to shoot new footage. All financial and delivery respon-sibility for the production. Currently broadcast as interstitials on the network.

• Produced and ran all operations, finance, fiscal accountability, PR, creative aspects, and staffing supervision for this company at the 2,203 seat ORPHEUM THEATRE in San Francisco.• Orchestrated and managed the first ever joint venture between the City, School Districts, Library System and the Shorenstein Hays Nederlander Theatres.• Ran county-wide literacy program culminating in a professional large scale stage production of the award winning book and film "Holes" by Louis Sachar. More than 65,000 books given to public school students.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Love created and led a new development division of ANSCHUTZ FILM GROUP. WALDEN MEDIA, the movie studio that produced the NARNIA movies and other family blockbusters, partnered with Love-Ramos to develop new entertainment content to be piloted before live audiences. He managed this multi-million dollar division with as many as 75 employees. Douglas Love-Ramos conceived 7 new titles for development and packaged a television series based on the company's successful movie, "Holes".

Greater Denver Area

• Launched this multi-million dollar live stage division of ANSCHUTZ FILM GROUP. • Achieved 3,500 subscribers in its inaugural season. Presented regional and national companies in a series of per-formances for the venue. • Managed 125 full-time, part-time and production employees. • Launched philanthropy and sponsorship division creating an "adopt-a-school" program for Title One students.• Orchestrated all strategic planning, business development, fiscal accountability, union negotiations and all staffing. • Supervised all creative content, presenting deals, union negotiations, branding, venue & box office operations, set-tlements, finances, advancement, PR and marketing outreach. • Produced seven large-scale, original musicals and one straight play commissioning award-winning writers, directors and designers from the worlds of Broadway, film and television. • Launched an arts school for children and adults with 800 students and a regional theatre festival for schools.

Greater New York City Area

• CEO and Executive Producer of this daily live action arts based television series. • Supervised the 150 person crew, cast and production team shooting over 100 episodes in NYC. (Financials, budgeting, accountability for this multi-million dollar production, business operations, casting, writing, post-production, delivery, union negotiations)• Produced more 300+ original songs featured in the series. • Debuted as Disney's top rated daytime series - a position it maintained for seven seasons, with re-runs throughout the world as recently as 2014 (Disney Jr. Canada)• Winner of 3 Parents Choice Awards and Emmy nomination.

Greater New York City Area

HARPERCOLLINS, DISNEY PRESS, MORROW, SCOTT FORESMAN, HARCOURT, WORLD BOOK, KIWI STORYBOOKS, RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN THEATRE LIBRARYWRITTEN WORKS: So, You Want To Be A StarFree To Be You And Me - the stage musical (for Marlo Thomas)Blame It On The WolfAfter, Happily Ever?Be Kind To Your Mother (Earth)Imagination StationDieguito (bilingual)Harmony Loves HarmonyRoll 'EmHoliday In The Rain ForestKabuki GiftKabuki Emperor's New ClothesThree OnionsAngelita (bilingual)The Adventures of Cookie CobaltFollow That FoodThe Risky ResidenceTo Tell The TruthTwo Tales One MoonThe Super Jimmy ShowDinosaur SleepoverYou Know WhatIf You Knew SusieThe Untrue Adventures of Major TomNON-FICTION CREATIVITY BOOKSThe Ultimate Slumber Party BookThe Ultimate Backyard Camp Out BookDisney's Face Painting & Costume BookThe Ultimate Backyard Event BookThe Ultimate Haunted Halloween BookSpare Change or When Your Allowance Isn't EnoughThe Earth Dinner