Tony Micocci

About Tony Micocci

Cultural infrastructure consulting. Recent- R&D of business plan and accepted proposal to Jefferson Parish through a 2-year RFP process for New Orleans-area producer to assume management of Jefferson PAC; guided establishment of operating and programming structure- Wrote accepted proposal on behalf of director Lee Breuer for archive sale of to the Beinecke Library at Yale. Worked with Lee\'s estate over 3 years to organize and transfer vast analog and digital materials- Founding team member of the NYC-based producing company \'the american vicarious\' with award-winning director Christopher McElroen. My theater background spans producer, presenter, artist manager and agent. Stagehand at Arena Stage; dance manager; founding GM of the Flynn Center in Burlington VT; President of NY City Center. Established NYC-based artist agency in 1990\'s working globally with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp, Pilobolus, Lee Breuer and Elizabeth Streb to Basil Twist, Marcel Marceau and Ireland\'s Abbey Theatre. Consulting clients equally diverse, incl NY Lincoln Center, Sesame Workshop, Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the toystore FAO Schwarz, plus the Dentsu Corporation, Cambodian Living Arts, Kyiv Cultural Office and the U.S. Embassy/Moscow. Proposed and coordinated the last major U.S. cultural event in Russia in 2014 prior to the souring of bilateral relations: a 6 week sharing of Louisiana culture in Moscow and national tour involving 72 artists from a NOLA high school band to a Zydeco dance master, a photography exhibit, film series, top jazz musicians (of course) and a New Orleans master chef! As educator, I taught and later chaired the Graduate Arts Administration Program at the Univ of New Orleans, co-lead a popular negotiating workshop at industry conferences, multiple State Department lecture tours, and learned and shared over a number of weeks throughout Cambodia hosted by Cambodian Living Arts, under auspices of the Fulbright Program and the U.S. Embassy/Phnom Penh. Writing includes a textbook,\'BOOKING PERFORMANCE TOURS: Marketing and Acquiring Live Arts and Entertainment\'(Allworth Press), and contributed chapters on aspects of performing arts management. Unrelated: Honing woodturning skills, aspiring to share publicly with my talented ceramacist wife Martha through our jointly-owned company Mud Oak Kept reasonably sane through Covid restoring my beloved sloop Star Stuff. Loving relatively climate stable Asheville,\"halfback\" between NOLA and NYC. Website / email t•••@micocci.com. Thanks!

Experience

1. Director of Business Development

   Jefferson Performing Arts

   Jan 2021 — Present · Metairie, LA, US

   Guiding programming and advising on new management of the Jefferson Performing Arts Center

Education

• Columbia Business School

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

• Bennington College

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

• Columbia Business School

  MBA, Marketing focus

  1992 — 1993

• Bennington College

  Bachelor of Arts, Music and Theater