Brooklyn College Harold Wolpert Adjunct Lecturer, Producing & Financing Performing Arts Management: Harold Wolpert, who has managed over 100 plays and musicals in his career and has extensive experience in all aspects of theatre administration at this country’s top theatres, began as Managing Director of Roundabout Theatre Company in July 2005. Roundabout, one of the country’s leading not-for-profit theatres, has an annual budget of $40 million, 45,000 subscribers, employs more than 500 artists, technicians and staff and runs two Broadway and one Off-Broadway theatre. Among other awards, Roundabout productions have received 22 Tony Awards. Prior to Roundabout, he was the General Manager of Manhattan Theatre Club between 2000-2005. MTC, with a budget of $18 million and a full-time staff of 75, produces at the Biltmore Theatre and two Off-Broadway theatres. During his tenure, MTC staged the world premieres of long-running Broadway productions Doubt and Proof (the longest-running Broadway play in 20 years), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. MTC productions also included new plays by Donald Margulies, Richard Greenberg, David Lindsay-Abaire, and Warren Leight. Mr. Wolpert was a key member of MTC’s management team that planned and supervised the award-winning $35 million restoration of the Biltmore Theatre. He managed the growth of MTC as its budget increased 50% and its staff expanded following the Biltmore restoration, negotiated thirteen separate collective bargaining agreements with nine unions for the Biltmore, established front-of-house policies and procedures, and oversaw the expansion of MTC’s administrative operations. A Philadelphia native, Mr. Wolpert earned a degree in History at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he gained experience in theatre management, including work in the Annenberg Center box office, and as Board Chairman of Penn Players and the Performing Arts Council. He began his professional career in New York City in 1988 at Circle Repertory Company, and was Company Manager for their productions of Reckless and Prelude to a Kiss. In 1990, he joined Manhattan Theatre Club as Company Manager, where he managed the world premieres of Lips Together, Teeth Apart and Four Dogs and a Bone and the American premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together with Julie Andrews. In 1994, Mr. Wolpert joined the Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre, with a budget of $10 million, a full-time staff of 125 and two theatres in its downtown Houston complex, as its General Manager. During his Alley tenure, he oversaw significant productions by celebrated writers Edward Albee, Horton Foote, Tony Kushner, and Robert Wilson. Several of these projects received widespread recognition, including Kushner’s Angels in America and Wilson’s Hamlet a monologue, both of which toured to the Venice Biennale under Mr. Wolpert’s supervision. Mr. Wolpert was also instrumental in orchestrating the highly acclaimed international co-production of Not About Nightingales, the world premiere of an early Tennessee Williams play with London’s Royal National Theatre (directed by Trevor Nunn), which the Alley co-produced on Broadway in 1999. Additionally, he played a key role in the Alley’s unique collaboration with Vanessa and Corin Redgrave’s Moving Theatre Company. Mr. Wolpert served as Chairman of the Board of AIDS Foundation Houston (AFH) during a period of significant growth for the agency and as Chairman of the Houston AIDS Walk in 1996 and 1997. While he was AFH Chairman, the agency’s budget and programs expanded to include housing for women and children and Camp Hope for children with HIV/AIDS, and the agency received local and national acclaim for its groundbreaking approaches to meeting the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. Mr. Wolpert is currently on the Executive Committee of the League of Resident Theatres and the Board of Directors of the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers. Brooklyn College Faculty Brooklyn College