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Jessica, I just messaged you my cell. I would love to meet you if you end up going to that event next Friday! That's so great that you're interested in technology in the arts. Such a specific interest and something that's so needed. It sounds like you have a lot of great varied experience. It's been so great chatting with you and I hope we can meet next week! Shannon

Jessica, Thank you for all the info and help! I emailed Brann today in hopes of setting up a time to meet him while I'm in NY. I also noticed on NYU's website that he's conducting an event next Friday evening called "CEOs in the Arts" so I'm planning to attend that. As far as my background goes, I live and work in Salt Lake City, UT. I have my BA in Musical Theatre from Weber State University. Right after graduating I started working for a non-profit theatre called Salt Lake Acting Company which produces new, challenging work that would otherwise never be done in Utah. For a while I still pursued performing, but over the years, my work at SLAC has become more interesting and more important to me than performing. I feel like this producing/management side of things really uses my whole brain. And while I've learned so much from working here, I'm really drawn to the idea of a formal education. So I started researching some programs and decided to just apply and see what happens. I'd love to hear your background as well! Thanks again, Shannon

Hi Jessica! Thanks for your reply. That's really nice to hear in regards to letters of rec. So far I've been invited to American's open house in late March - though it sounds pretty general, like they probably invite everyone who applies - and I got an interview with Columbia next week. I'm really excited! (And a little nervous.) I have a friend in the Performing Arts Admin program at NYU Steinhardt and he email-introduced me to Brann Wry. I'm hoping to visit NYU as well next week. Did they say at the open house how many people they typically accept? Thanks again for your reply and best of luck to you as well! Shannon

Anyone else applying to Theatre Management/Producing or Arts Administration programs? I'm applying to Yale for Theatre Management, Columbia for Theatre Management & Producing, NYU Steinhardt for Performing Arts Administration and American University for Arts Management. I've had 4 years experience working for a professional non-profit theatre company and I have great letters of recommendation, which I'm hoping will outweigh my mediocre GPA and GRE scores. (3.52 GPA, 158 - Verbal, 154 - Quantitative, 4 - Writing) I also feel pretty good about my Personal Essays. Any input, advice, experience, etc. would be appreciated! Best of luck to everyone!