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New York, United States

Oversee all technical and logistical aspects of productions and events produced by CTH. Oversee full production budgets, including labor, rentals, and fabrication. Facilitate communication between CTH and NYC Parks Dept for our annual free performances in Marcus Garvey Park.

New York, New York, United States

PHTS, a studio at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, consistently ranks as one of the country’s top undergraduate theater training programs.Manage 25-40 productions each semester for PHTS’s Advanced Training program. Oversee full production budgets, including labor, overhead, and buildings. Prepare payroll for mentors and production personnel. Schedule rehearsal space and performance venues.• Designed a technology plan and quickly built a website that allowed the school to continue operating and educating during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the new processes remain in place and have strengthened teaching capabilities and focus.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Advanced quickly from Assistant to primarily Production Stage Manager roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway including Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company. As right hand to directors, created rehearsal schedules and monitored unionized labor expenses. Oversaw sets, props, costumes, lights, and sound with creative and technical departments. Supplemented income as a manager of corporate and private events, including upfronts, weddings, marketing campaigns, and galas. Collaborated with clients to understand their goals, concerns, and logistical needs. Managed timelines, talent, supplies, and setup. Worked with producers on staffing and event needs. Major events include the US Open and Facebook’s Agency Women’s Leadership Day.• Quickly developed the flexibility to be selective about choice of stage-management work based on reputation and relationships.• Typically handled more than twice the volume of productions as peers; repeatedly handpicked by top directors.• Seamlessly modified workflows and rehearsal schedules to accommodate the busy travel schedules and engagement priorities of high-profile individuals, including A-list stars: Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand, Jessica Hecht, and Morgan Freeman. • Transformed poor rehearsal cadence for a performance with a short rehearsal time as its inexperienced director struggled. Maintained strong relations with the director and preserved the team’s faith in him by taking the hard role of reducing distractions.• Mentored an inexperienced assistant stage manager whose lack of technical organization skills threatened to delay a show’s opening. Through overnight collaboration, eliminated the problem and created a foundation for the assistant’s future stage-management success.• Protected actors from a hazardous stage-prop situation by successfully lobbying to delay a show’s production; oversaw issue resolution.