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Prior to joining the Goodman, Ms. Nicholson worked for 9 years at Arena Stage with Zelda Fichandler and Tom Fichandler, where her marketing efforts increased the subscription base from 15,000 to 18,500 in 24 months; and for 5 years at La Jolla Playhouse with Des McAnuff and Alan Levey, where she increased the subscription base by 75% in her first season. She has also served as Marketing Director for the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Virginia Opera, and the Philadelphia Drama Guild. Ms. Nicholson has worked with many of the most important artists of our time, including Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, Pete Townshend, August Wilson, Yuri Lyubimov, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Athol Fugard, Rebecca Gilman, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, Tom Lehrer, and Bill Irwin. She was marketing director for the world premieres of The Who’s Tommy at La Jolla Playhouse, Sondheim’s Bounce and August Wilson’s GEM OF THE OCEAN at the Goodman Theatre, Stephen Flaherty and Frank Galati’s LOVING REPEATING at About Face Theatre, and the American premiere of Yuri Lyubimov’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT at Arena Stage.
In Washington,
D.C., Ms. Nicholson was a Founding Producer of THE
HOLIDAY PERFORMANCE,
an annual benefit to raise food for the Capitol Area Community Food
Bank. She has taught theater management and marketing at the
University of Maryland and the University of California – San Diego.
Paulette
McDaniels has worked as a telemarketing manager for arts
organizations for the last 25 years. Most recently she has managed
both subscription and fundraising phone campaigns for the Chicago
Sinfonietta, and she has previously managed campaigns for Drury Lane
(Evergreen Park), Chicago Opera Theatre, Victory Gardens, Joffrey
Ballet and the Chicago City Ballet, as well as the American Medical
Association. She has worked as assistant manager on campaigns at
Goodman Theatre, Lyric Opera and Windy City Gay Chorus. As an actor
she is the holder of the BTAA award for her work in Onyx Theatre’s
Flyin’ West and her films include A Family Thing, and
Losing Isaiah. Paulette is associate producer of Ark
Productions (www.arkproductionschicago.com) as well as the author of
A Deadly Silence, a screenplay commissioned by the department
of Health and Human Services about the effect of AIDS on young women
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