Viveca Gardiner Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

Co- or associate set designer for multiple plays and musicals, circuses, and spectacles. Creative producer for short film, circus-themed off-Broadway show, and arena-scale spectacles. Project manager. Art director. Communications director. Business manager.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill, Netflix special (and four live performances at the Beacon Theater, NYC), produced by Embassy Row

Book variety and circus performers for special events, education programs, and corporate trainings.

Co-produce and direct the Bindlestiff Cavalcade of Youth, a professional showcase for variety and circus performers under age 21 (two to four shows/year since 2002, minus the pandemic). Founded and produced the NYC Regional American Youth Circus Festival.

Write feature articles, educational materials, and corporate communications. Edit, copy edit, and proof read fiction and non-fiction in a variety of subjects.

Direct the circus skills camp at Purchase College. Lead a staff of four to five coaches. Teach circus skills to campers ages five to sixteen. Direct and produce circus shows. (Worked as coach there 2019 and was promoted to program director when camp resumed post-pandemic.)

New York City Metropolitan Area

[fat] life, a film by David Gallo Design, produced through a Spotlight Initiative Grant from The Creative Coalition

Greater New York City Area

Art director for the television show (season 50), the 50th Anniversary Special, the Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo (pilot episode), and various social impact content.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Oversaw Big Apple Circus Embraces Autism, Circus For All, and Circus to Go programs.

Traveling

Teach circus skills to kids in schools and camps. Sometimes perform. Also stage manage, organize a four-camera HD video shoot, engineer audio needs, write script copy, work in concessions, install trapeze rigs and other circus apparatuses, and do whatever else needs doing.

New York, Ny

For Kaplan Test Prep: Taught and tutored GMAT, GRE, SAT, SSAT, SHSAT, and other standardized test prep. For Kaplan International Centers: Taught and tutored GMAT prep for international students as well as TOEFL prep, general and academic English, and business English for non-native speakers

Ba, Literature

Activities and Societies: WHRB, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, Dunster House

Mppm, Management, Decision Making, Marketing

Activities and Societies: Outreach Management Consulting Group, Writing Center