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  Harmon Greenblatt

Harmon Greenblatt has been teaching and working in the field of arts management his entire professional career. His full-time teaching positions include Columbia College Chicago and the University of Hartford. Prior to his current position he also directed arts councils in Evanston and Decatur, Illinois and has been a producer, presenter, and manager in Illinois, New Jersey, and California.

E-mail: hgreenbl@uno.edu
Phone: 504.280.6206



Tony Micocci

Tony Micocci brings 35 years of experience in international performing arts management to UNO’S Graduate Program in Arts Administration, including  directorship of the renowned New York City Center, and agency representation of artists and producers at the level of Ireland’s national Abbey Theatre, the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard, Basil Twist, Twyla Tharp and Marcel Marceau. Tony is the author of the definitive textbook on international tour booking: Booking Performance Tours/Marketing and Acquiring Live Arts and Entertainment (Allworth Press, 2008) and holds and MBA from Columbia University in New York City. [MA & CPAE]

E-Mail: amicocci@uno.edu


 		 Richard Read

Richard Read holds a B.A. from Milsaps College, an M.A. from Tulane University, and an M.A. in Arts Administration from UNO. He has served as managing director of the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, managing director for the local arts festival, Dramarama, and program manager for the International Theater Institute of the United States. Professional affiliations include the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Louisiana Partnership for the Arts, and the Louisiana Presenters Network. He has extensive experience in marketing, public relations, grant writing, program administration, arts technology, web and graphic design, and event production. He currently serves as director of marketing for the NOCCA Institute.

E-mail: rread@nocca.com

  Lauren Bierbaum

Lauren Bierbaum has nearly a decade of experience working with nonprofit organizations. Her areas of expertise include development, program evaluation, strategic planning, and qualitative research methodologies. She is currently the director of research at the Greater New Orleans Afterschool Partnership. Lauren has also worked as a market research consultant in the Philadelphia area. Lauren holds an M.S. in developmental psychology and a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University. 

E-mail: lbierbaum@nolayouth.org

 
  Ashlye Keaton

Ashlye M. Keaton, Esq. practices entertainment and intellectual property law concentrating on music licensing and arts advocacy. Keaton is co-founder/supervising attorney for the Entertainment Law Legal assistance project (ELLA), providing free legal services to artist and musicians and also runs another pro bono legal clinic though Sweet Home New Orleans in partnership with the ford Foundation. Among other boards, she has served on the Board of Governors for the Nation Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, better known as the Grammy's. In addition to being an adjunct professor in the Arts Administration program, Keaton is also an adjunct professor at Tulane Law school.

E-mail: ashlye@nolaentertainmentlaw.com

 		  Roy Bass

Roy Baas is a native of New Orleans and has lived and worked there and in Los Angeles California. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of New Orleans and completed the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge Louisiana. His business and academic career includes over two decades of experience in commercial banking and as a principal and senior consultant of Banking & Business Consultants. Bass has also spent 14 years as adjunct professor of finance and entrepreneurship at the University of New Orleans, and 7 years as adjunct professor of finance & economics at the University of New Orleans International Summer School, Austria.
  Darrel Kau

Darrel Kau has over 15 years of experience presenting and marketing cultural events. Previous arts management positions held include:Director of the Cultural Forum at the University of Oregon; Presenting Program Manager for the Hult Center for the Performing Arts; Marketing Director for the Eugene Ballet Company; Marketing & Development consultant for the Eugene Concert Choir, among others. He has been a grant review panelist for the Western States Arts Federation’s Tour-West Program, the Oregon Cultural Trust, and the Oregon Arts Commission. Mr.Kau serves on the Arts Foundation of Western Oregon Board of the Oregon Community Foundation. He is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Oregon’s Arts & Administration Program where he teaches courses on marketing, arts presenting and event management.
  Michael Wilkerson

Michael Wilkerson is an assistant professor at American University in the Department of Performing Arts. He has worked as a university administrator, freelance writer, director of two multidisciplinary artists’ residency programs, founding chair of a national service/advocacy organization, and as founding editor of a national literary magazine. Additionally, he has taught writing, arts management, literary interpretation and other subjects for more than two decades, at Indiana, DePauw, Wisconsin and at the School of the Art Institute. Michael has served as a grants panelist for the NEA and many other organizations and specializes in cultural policy and artists' support systems.


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