SUMMARY



Experienced, degreed Production professional. Member I.A.T.S.E. Local 481. Strengths include set decoration, buying, knowledge of historical periods, furniture and costume history.



HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS



• Adept at taking ideas and interpreting to client specifics in various capacities such as movie and television production, graphics, theatrical and interior design.

• Excel with visual presentation skills but also possess both written and verbal communication abilities.

• Organizational experience consists of events planning, festival management and responsibility for promotional materials covering various events.



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE



Visual/Presentation Abilities

• Participated in over 200 professional productions in stage and television in the New York, New England and Chicago areas, i.e., New York Shakespeare Festival: Astor Place Theatres and Shakespeare in the Park; Lincoln Center: Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi Newhouse Theatres.

• Assisted with programming and production of projects such as Pepsi commercials B.B.D. and O., New York.

• Set up and attended shoots, voice-overs and edits, research, chyron and rolled tape as assistant producer with Channel 57.

• Handled layout, art and line drawing for promotional materials covering various events.



Organizational/Administrative

• Organized and coordinated selected aspects of events, i.e., location finding, technical and banquet personnel, production of promotional materials, liaison between offices, press liaison, ticket sales, and fundraising.

• Experience in dealing with foreign market aspects as well as established entertainers.



EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE



SET DRESSER—TV

• The Big C 2011

• Boardwalk Empire 2011

• The Good Wife 2011

• Law and Order: Special Victims Unit 2011

• Bored to Death 2011

• White Collar 2011

• How to Make It in America 2011

• Eden 2011

• Ringer 2011

• Smash 2011

• Prime Suspect 2011

SET DRESSER—FILM

• Men in Black III 2011

• Arbitrage 2011

• The Surrogates 2008

• The Proposal 2008

• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past 2008

• The Clique 2008

• Pink Panther Deux 2007

• Tanner Hall 2007

• Bachelor No. 2 2007

• The Women 2007

• The Game Plan 2006

• Shuttle 2006

WARDROBE/PROPERTIES/GREENS/CRAFT SERVICES—FILM

• Grown Ups (wardrobe) 2010

• Lonely Maiden (properties) 2007

• Pink Panther Deux (greens) 2007

• Bachelor No. 2 (craft services) 2007

• Cider House Rules (wardrobe) 1999



THEATRE

Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT 2001

Wardrobe Supervisor



Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Beckett, MA 2001

House Manager



City Stage, Springfield, MA 1999

House Manager



Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, Northampton, MA 1994

Festival Manager



OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE



PBS WGBY-TV 57, Springfield, MA 1990 - 1991

Associate Producer



Self-employed, Springfield, MA 1981 – Present

Antiques • Design & Freelance Artist



New York Shakespeare Festival: Astor Place Theatres and Shakespeare in the Park; Lincoln Center: Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi Newhouse Theatres; and others nationwide

Theatrical Production/Production Assistant; Set Designer/Decorator/Scenic Painter

Property Buyer/Constructor



EDUCATION/TRAINING



Allegheny College, Meadville, PA

B.A., Visual Communication



UMass Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA

Courses in Acting, Speech, Directing and Shakespeare



Paier School of Art, New Haven, CT

Certificate, Interior Design (Intensive Three Year Program)



American International College, Springfield, MA

Courses in Liberal Arts and Business