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agent ANDREA SABATA, who founded the division, has been promoted to vice president of performing arts, and BEN ROSSMAN,
who has been
staffing changes and promotions after naming RUSSELL GRANET its president and CEO last summer. MARY ROSE LLOYD, who previously served as director of artistic programming for the New
42nd Street, is the new artistic director. LISA LAWER POST has been promoted to COO, and LAUREN FITZGERALD
has been promoted to vice president
of marketing and communications. In addition, ELIZABETH HINES has been hired as vice president of finance.
Agent MATT MCCLUSKEY has joined International Music Network and will oversee the booking of IMN’s roster
in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and Africa. He brings 12 years of music industry experience to the role. Raised in Boston, he studied music business management at Berklee College of Music and English at University of Massachusetts Boston. In 2007, McCluskey was hired as the international contract manager at The Kurland Agency. He was promoted
to domestic agent, then international agent,
Bonnie Schock
serving as Sabata's tour coordinator, has been
promoted to full agent in the division with a focus on emerging artists.
The United Theatre of Westerly, Rhode Island, has hired LISA UTMAN RANDALL
BONNIE SCHOCK is the new executive director of Fox Tucson Theatre, a historic Southwestern Art Deco movie palace theater in Tucson, Arizona. She
Ben Rossman
succeeds longtime executive director Craig Sumberg. Schock comes to Tucson from Red Wing, Minnesota, where she served as executive director of the Sheldon Theatre of Performing Arts since 2015. She brings to the role three decades of experience in the theater arts and entertainment industry.
as executive director and TONY NUNES as artistic director. In Rhode Island, Randall was co-founder and executive director of Island Arts, director of
MARTIN WECHSLER has been named senior adviser for TMC Arts Dance Presentations at The Music Center of Los Angeles. In
Lisa Utman Randall
development for RiverzEdge Arts Project and founding executive director of the Jamestown Arts Center. Nunes has
eventually taking on all bookings outside of the U.S. and Canada.
Midland (Michigan) Center for
Martin Wechsler
worked with the United Theatre since 2013, first as a volunteer and then as
an event and marketing consultant. He previously served as assistant
his new role, Wechsler will support the TMC Arts team in curating its dance seasons, developing
relevant engagement projects for each dance presentation and expanding the dance series’ student matinee program. A dance curator, producer, administrator and educator, Wechsler began his career with The Joyce Theater as an administrative assistant and grew to become the organization’s director of programming, a role he held for more than 20 years before stepping down in 2017.
Skyline Artists Agency has expanded its performing arts center booking division and announced two promotions: veteran
Diane Willcox
Tony Nunes
the Arts has hired DIANE WILLCOX
as its vice president of marketing and communications. She comes to Midland from Broadway in Tucson, Arizona, where she served as general manager.
EMILY BORABABY has been named chief advancement officer of Celebrity Series of Boston. She previously served as director of development and external relations for From the Top, Inc., where she led the organization’s fundraising, board relations andexternalrelations.
vice president of public relations for Washington Trust and was a member of the public relations team at Mohegan Sun.
The nonprofit New 42nd Street, which includes New Victory Theater and the New 42nd Street Studios, has announced
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