Making It Happen: Program Development and Production
I consult with organizations to help them develop and produce radio programs such as Studio 360, which I created for WNYC and PRI, podcasts such as Totally Cerebral with Dr. Wendy Suzuki for PRX, websites and blogs such as The Good Garden, and conferences and live events, such as TEDxMet for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
One of my specialties is launching projects: working with clients to uncover original ideas and turning them into successful public radio programs, live events, podcasts, and blogs. Another strength is turnaround: taking an existing project that is not living up to its potential, and working with talent and creative teams to rework the concept and successfully navigate change.
In 2013, I was asked to launch TEDxMet, the first TEDx in an art museum. I worked with The Metropolitan Museum of Art's talented team, including Met Director Thomas Campbell's Chief Advisor, Christine Coulson, and Limor Tomer, General Manager of The Met Presents, to develop the focus for the day and choose speakers, which included curators, artists, performers, and a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, as well as performances by musicians and dancers. I coached the speakers, and loved helping each craft a talk which captivated the audience. At the end of the day, Tom Campbell told me that the event had exceeded all of his expectations.
TEDxMet 2015: The In-Between, took place on September 26, and you can see all of the speakers and performances here. It was a pleasure to work again with the wonderful people at The Met, and the extraordinary speakers, to create a day filled with complexity, compassion, and tenderness. And art, of course!
Here are some of the talks from the first TEDxMet:
TEDx Met: Icons -- Bill T. Jones October 19, 2013 Bill T. Jones is artistic director, cofounder, and choreographer of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, which he formed in 1982 with his late partner Arnie Zane.
TEDx Met: Icons -- Melanie Holcomb October 19, 2013 Melanie Holcomb, a curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1999, is a specialist in the luxury arts of the middle ages, from treasure hoards to illuminated manuscripts.
A few of the organizations for whom I have created and produced programs:
TEDx Met: Icons -- Lorna Simpson October 19, 2013 Lorna Simpson first became well known in the mid-1980s for her large-scale photograph-and-text works that confront and challenge conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory.
Luke Syson was a curator of Renaissance art, of transcendent paintings of saints and solemn Italian ladies -- serious art. And then he changed jobs, and inherited the Met's collection of ceramics -- pretty, frilly, "useless" candlesticks and vases. He didn't like it. He didn't get it. Until one day ...
TEDx Met: Icons -- Elizabeth Streb October 19, 2013 Elizabeth Streb, action architect, is a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Award (1997) and a member of the New York City Mayor's Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission. In 2003, she established the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics in Brooklyn, New York.
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