Toni Smith Email & Phone Number

- Curate and create diverse programs to engage the community in the arts- Schedule and produce over 100 seasonal theater productions and engaged actors and stage personnel to execute dramatic, musical and comedy performances.- Routinely recruit and scree artists and organizations to work with the company and further its mission.- Schedule video production resources and managed cast and crew to accomplish video production goals on preset timelines.- Consult with clients to discuss commission ideas and style preferences to create mutually agreeable project parameters.- Gained familiarity with organization's operational and financial challenges and opportunities to improve grant writing knowledge base.- Built partnerships with related organizations to develop support and gain greater attention for important issues.- Work closely with organizational leadership, including board of directors, to strategically affect direction of operations.

Chicago

- Partnered with festival and theater producers to create seven different original sketch productions.- Enhanced scripts through extensive rewrites and editing processes to create cohesive hour long shows throughcollaboration between writers, directors and dramaturges.- Communicated between production staff, artistic personnel, and theater management to ensure high quality productions

Chicago

-Provide high quality customer service both face to face and through the phone to create an excellent customer experience.-Display in-depth knowledge of Chicago Costume's inventory of thousands of items to customers, ensuring an item return rate of less than 1%.-Build effective store templates for pop up retail locations and convention booths.-Manage and balanced the stores register nightly with accuracy.

Chicago

- Coordinated project deliverables and meetings with three divisions and over 100 employees of Bankers Life- Worked closely with HR to organize and provide training programs to a new compensation system for Bankers Life’sentire network of employees.- Tracked deadlines and resource distribution for over 5,000 tasks in the project plan for a new compensation system

Chicago

- Created mailing campaigns for the growing list of clients at SDI.- Key team member in the re-branding of SDI’s two recently bought companies.- Assisted in shooting and editing video testimonials for proposals.

Westfield, In

-Maintained efficient and organized filing systems for patient and billingdata, both hard copy and electronically-Created a new and easy to maintain system to track performance andefficiency of the company-Gave regular technical support in Microsoft Office products as well asgeneral computer problems

Westfield, In

-Taught grades K-12 in an average class size of 25.-Frequently requested to substitute for high school English as well as special needs programs.-Adapted to different challenges each day and often taught for multiple teachers in one day at a moment’s notice

Bloomington, Indiana Area

Performed in The Del Close Marathon (NY), University of Southern California’s FRACAS Improv Festival, Oberlin College Improv Conference, Bellwether Improv Festival (OH), The Malignant Humor Comedy Festival (IL), The Upright Citizen’s Brigade Touring Company (IN), and Indiana University College Comedy Festival

Certificate, Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Education record