Rosemary Allmann and Ed AllmannTheatrical and Musical Direction, Staging, Voice Over Acting, Performance; Artist Representation; Arts Advocacy

Affiliations:> Avant Marketing Group (St. Louis, MO)> Global Communicators, LLC (Washington, D.C.)> Hunter PR & Events (Hilton Head, SC)

Avant Marketing Group (www.avantmarketing.com) is a market research and branding firm that specializes in brand development and management for enterprises, including municipalities. Its municipal clients utilize Avant Marketing Group's expertise to both develop and to grow brand equity for their communities, improve their economy and to attract visitors. Established in 2004, Avant Marketing Group and has conducted brand development and planning in the United States as well as in 38 countries internationally. Its "Living the Brand" approach to brand management and brand equity development is practiced by communities ranging from 2,400 to 220,000 in population as well as diversified corporations and companies conducting business around the globe. Ed Allmann Consulting current work with Avant Marketing Group includes retail research in Virginia and North Carolina.

Global Communicators (www.globalcommunicators.com) assembles teams in practice areas that include media relations, brand development, product/company launches, trade and investment promotion, travel and tourism promotion, social media marketing, special events, government affairs, representation of foreign governments, crisis communications, and global market research and analysis. Based in the nation's capital, Global Communicators has professional partners across the United States and abroad, maintaining strategic alliances with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Orlando, and international partners in Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Honduras, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Egypt, Dubai, and Turkey.

Experts in creating loyal brand advocates and motivating affluent travelers to book, MPA Digital creates custom-marketing programs that address specific needs in hospitality and destination marketing. MPA Digital's team of experienced hospitality marketing professionals defy traditional thinking to deliver superior results.

Turning Stone is the only resort in the northeast with three Forbes Travel Guide Four Star and three AAA Four Diamond venues at one property. The resort welcomes 4.5 million visitors annually. Enterprises principally include Turning Stone Resort Casino, Point Place Casino, Yellow Brick Road Casino, and range to Oneida Outfitters Hunt Preserve, Salmon Acres fishing camp, Maple Leaf Markets convenience stores, and other ventures. Responsibilities: oversight of resort and retail marketing, property-wide entertainment booking and marketing, sports and consumer events, conference/catering sales and services, and sponsorship sales.5,000-seat Event Center has hosted celebrities such as Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Steve Martin, Tony Bennett, KISS, Tim McGraw, and internationally televised boxing on HBO, Showtime, ESPN. 700-seat Showroom – named 2015 Showroom of the Year at the Las Vegas Global Gaming Expo - presents acts ranging from Alice Cooper to The Beach Boys. The resort has four nightclubs offering country, EDM, contemporary/jazz and classic rock options. Turning Stone has 707 guestrooms among four hotels, including The Lodge - winner of Forbes Travel Guide Four Star and AAA Four Diamond ratings and designated by Conde Nast Johansens “Best Countryside Hotel” in 2018 – and The Tower, also Four Diamond rated. Its five golf courses (designed by Tom Fazio, Robert Trent Jones, Jr. and Rick Smith) earned ranking as a Gold Medal resort by GOLF.com, and an Editor’s Choice resort in 2017/18 by Golf Digest, with two of Turning Stone’s 18-hole layouts among America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses. The resort also features an all-season golf and tennis dome, Skana Spa (Forbes Travel Guide Four Star winner) and Ahsi day spa. The Forbes Four Star and AAA Four Diamond Award winner Wildflowers restaurant is among the resort's 20 dining venues. Versatile conference space exceeds 100,000 s.f., the casino offers more than 125,000 s.f. of slots, bingo, table games and poker action.

Focused on new business development and marketing services for this dynamic public affairs firm.From its office hub just two blocks from the White House, Global Communicators coordinates a worldwide network of superior independent marketing communications professionals, and is also associated with select agencies in major capitals around the globe. Global Communicators is able to provide a full range of integrated marketing communications services in practice areas that include media relations, brand and image building, product/company launches, economic development and foreign trade, travel and tourism promotion, international sustainable development and design, the arts and historic preservation, government affairs, and crisis communications planning and counsel. As registered lobbyists with the U.S. Congress, and registered foreign representatives with the U.S. Department of Justice, Global Communicators is experienced in representing the interests of clients in the Halls of Congress as well as in world capitals.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a not-for-profit educational institution that owns, maintains and operates the 18th-century capital of Virginia as the world’s largest living history museum – a national treasure that attracts more than one million visitors annually – and also manages five hotels, 10 restaurants, three golf courses and has a 40-store retail center and products division. (Read more at www.history.org.) Held senior marketing management positions during period of significant transition with $200+ million in building and renovations of resort facilities, tourism recovery following 9/11, and revitalization of regional destination marketing initiative. Led integrated marketing department comprised of advertising, production services, consumer research, strategic alliances, database management, ticketing and travel industry sales with operation of five on-site sales offices and the destination Visitor Center.

The hospitality line of business of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation includes the Williamsburg Inn and Williamsburg Lodge, originally constructed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., (both propreties are members of Historic Hotels of America), the Golden Horseshoe Golf Club (with courses designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Rees Jones), and ten restaurants including four historic dining taverns. Read more at www.ColonialWilliamsburgResort.com.

Kohler Co., is the world’s leading manufacturer of plumbing products, and a major producer of small engines and electric generators, with recognized subsidiary brands in furniture; it owns and operates one of America’s premier golf and spa resorts, which includes nine restaurants, a 33-store shopping center, and extensive real estate development – the resort has consistently achieved Five Diamond status and served as host to USGA, PGA TOUR and PGA of America championships. (Read more at www.destinationkohler.com.)Directed media relations; created, developed, implemented advertising and p.r. programs for The American Club resort, including the marketing launch of Whistling Straits golf course, and host property media relations oversight for the USGA's 1998 U.S. Women's Open Championship at Blackwolf Run golf ccourse.

Day-to-day account management, client contact, creative direction, program strategies, tactics, implementation and coordination for some of America’s top brands, including several international products, including: Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac (industry trade association for France’s top spirit export), Schering-Plough Corp. (national p.r. planning for America’s leading suncare products: Coppertone, Tropical Blend, Shade, Water Babies, Solarcaine); PAAS Easter Egg Coloring Kits; Revlon, world’s premier beauty marketer (adjunct supervisor for national contest event); International Opera Festival's production of "Aida."

New York flagship of Paris-based exclusive nightclub and restaurant empire catering to the international jet set, movie stars, politicos and society influentials with more than 10,000 worldwide members; owned by French singer and actress “Regine.” Responsibilities included restaurant and club management, membership processing and invoicing, publicity material development.

Classical Music / Jazz Music Programming; 50kw Radio Serving SE Wisconsin and Northern Illinois