MANAGEMENT: In 1969, I cofounded my first theater company - the Growtofski-based Iowa Theatre Lab, and in 1973, with Bob Ernst and John O'Keefe in Berkeley started the Blake St. Hawkeyes. In my 12 years with the self-managing Hawkeyes, responsibilities included book-keeping, grant-writing, publicity and booking. I served as Artistic and Executive Director of Free Street Programs from 1991-2003, developing theater and creative writing programs for inner city youth. In 2002 I cofounded the Awassa Children's Center an arts-based orphanage and vocational training center in Ethiopia and the Awassa AIDS Education Circus, now known throughout Ethiopia as One Love HIV/AIDS Awareness Theater.   In 2003 I became the Executive Director of three affiliated 501(c3) s, The Arts Council for Chautauqua County (NY).  In 2010 I moved to Vermont to become the Executive Director of the Willowell Foundation whose mission is to provide place-based educational programs. My scope of management experience ranges from real estate development, and theater management to developing and funding a wide variety of arts and community-based programs, including school gardens, local history and wetland conservation. programs. Currently I am working for the Philadelphia hip-hop dance company, Illstyle and Peace Productions as a consultant and grant-writer

ARTS EDUCATION/COMMUNITY OUTREACH: Since 1992 I have been immersed in all aspects of the field of Arts in Education. In Chicago we developed theater and writing programs for parenting and pregnant teens, in-school residencies fusing theatre and creative writing, jobs programs in theater for teens (TeenStreet), programs for hospitalized children and theatre programs for seniors. In Western NY as director of the Arts Council for Chautauqua County we developed Ripley Writes which integrates creative writing throughout the Ripley NY school district, developed the Jamestown Public Art Commission and established with Dennis Drew WRFA-LP, Radio for the Arts   - the only radio station in the US operated by a local Arts Council. We developed arts programs in schools and community organizations and managed the Reg Lenna Civic Center a 1,250 seat theater focusing on youth and community performances. We established the One Love AIDS/HIV Awareness Theater in Awassa Ethiopia and founded the Awassa Children's Center, an orphanage for children who have lost their parents to AIDS. I have served as adjunct faculty at the the Naropa Institute and Burlington College, on the faculty of Vermont Governor's Institute for the Arts and have given workshops at UC Santa Cruz, Middlebury College and Brown University. Currently teaching play-making at Vergennes Middle School and coordordinationg the Monkton Yore program at Monkton Central School