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Fall 2014 Arts Marketing Digital Classroom

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Deeksha Gaur

Director of Marketing and Public Relations at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
@woollymammothtc

Deeksha Gaur is the director of marketing and public relations at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Previously, she was the director of marketing at Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. She is a graduate of Cambridge University and holds an M.A. from Yale University.

Stacy Lucier

Marketing Manager for the Oakland Museum of California
@oaklandmuseumca

Stacy serves as the Marketing Manager for the Oakland Museum of California, developing strategic marketing plans and partnerships, and works on major grants and initiative such as the IMLS Building Family Audiences, Enriching Family Experiences audience development and community engagement project, and the Audience Development Initiative, supported through the Koret Foundation. Prior to OMCA, Stacy spent four years with the San Francisco Symphony managing single ticket sales and marketing campaigns for more than 220 concerts and events annually. She led the institution to the highest ticket sales in six years, with more than $22 million in revenue and a 12,000 increase in ticket sales, with the highest Summer and Holiday Series sales and attendance in the institution’s 103-year history.

Jack Reuler

Founder Mixed Blood Theater Company

Jack Reuler founded the Mixed Blood Theatre Company in 1976 at the age of twenty-two after receiving a degree in zoology from Pomona College and Macalester College. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jack established Mixed Blood dedicated to the spirit of his dream: to promote cultural pluralism and pursue a culturally rich, culturally conscious America. Theater is a vehicle for entertainment, education, artistry, and world change, and Mixed Blood has allowed Jack to smuggle his dreams across the border of reality.

Donna Williams

Chief Audience Development Officer for The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Donna Williams is Chief Audience Development Officer for The Metropolitan Museum of Art where she developed the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative, the College Group at the Met, and the Mentoring Program, and oversees the Spectrum Initiative. Donna cultivates and maintains the Museum’s relationships with diverse communities, college-age and post-college audiences. She is the media spokesperson for the Museum on the topic of diversity in the arts and lectures at many organizations, universities, and conferences in Austria, New Zealand, England, and Qatar. Donna is a member of the NY Theatre Development Fund and has been a member of ArtTable and served on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. For her extensive work in diversity, Donna has been honored with the NBA New Jersey Nets Achievement Award, One Hundred Black Men’s Robert Mangum Leadership Award, The Special Achievement Award from the National Minority Business Council, The Arts and Culture Award from the Turkish Cultural Foundation, The Cultural Achievement Award from the National Black MBA Association, and several proclamations from the City of New York.