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Kristen Alvarez
Campaign Manager
513.632.0134
Favorite arts discipline: Music
Most memorable arts experience: Going to see Starlight Express with my mom when I was a child. I loved it so much and begged to see it again and again and again!
Personal Motto: Always treat people with respect and integrity. There is absolutely no excuse for anything less.
Favorite Movie: The Man Without a Face
Favorite Author: All 7 books of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander Series
Favorite Musical Group: I'll go with my favorite local group - The Jon Justice Band
Favorite Musical Artist: Wow, this is tough. I'm a long-time Ani DiFranco fan
Favorite TV Show: Depends on my mood
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Michael Boberg
Director, Shared Services
513.632.0119
Favorite arts discipline: Theatre
Most memorable arts experience: Seeing Metamporphosis and Company at Playhouse in the Park and Hedwig at Ensemble Theatre
Personal Motto: To each his own.
Favorite Movie: Slumdog Millionaire
Favorite Author: Maclolm Gladwell, Stephen King
Favorite Musical Group: The Beatles, Coldplay
Favorite TV Show: Lost, House, Heroes
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Ann DuCharme
Arts Education Manager
513.632.0148
Favorite arts discipline: Contemporary Visual Art
Most memorable arts experience: When my son said, "Hey mom, can me and a friend make a Jackson Pollock in the basement?
Personal Motto: Comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable.
Favorite Movie: Love Actually
Favorite Musical Group: Postal Service, Owl City, Vampire Weekend
Favorite TV Show: Project Runway
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Shannon Gilmore
Data Entry
513.632.0129
Favorite arts discipline: Print, blown glass.
Most memorable arts experience: Taking Bridget (5) to Beauty and the Beast this season at The Children's Theatre.
Personal Motto: Do unto others...
Favorite Movie: Grease (seriously!)
Favorite Book: The Red Tent
Favorite Author: Lisa See, Jodi Picoult, Anita Diamant
Favorite Musical Group: No Doubt
Favorite Musical Artist: Sheryl Crow
Favorite TV Show: Good Morning America
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Ashley Guethlein
Associate Campaign Manager
513.632.0126
Favorite arts discipline: Visual Arts
Most memorably arts experience: An entire summer of free Friday's at the Art Institute of Chicago
Personal Motto: Be present.
Favorite Movie: Charade
Favorite Book: A Moveable Feast by Hemingway
Favorite TV Show: Mad Men
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Heather Hallenberg
Vice President, Arts Services
513.632.0128
Favorite arts discipline: "Multi-Arts!"
Most memorable arts experience: Metamorphosis at Playhouse In The Park
Personal Motto: Lead by Example.
Favorite Movie: Days of Heaven
Favorite Author: Elizabeth George
Favorite Musical Artist: Springsteen
Favorite TV Show: Six Feet Under. At the moment, House
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Teri Haught
Vice President, Finance and Operations
513.632.0122
Favorite arts discipline: Theatre
Most memorable arts experience: Coordination of my children's school's first talent show in combination with a visual arts display of two pieces of every child's artwork. It was fun to see all the parents and grandparents in the gym for an art event versus an athletic event.
Personal Motto: Integrity is paramount.
Favorite Movie: Schindler's List
Favorite Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Favorite Musical Artist: James Taylor
Favorite TV Show: Sports Night (weird for an arts girl)
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Debbie Lambert
Staff Accountant
513.632.0123
Favorite arts discipline: Art is so much boarder than just paintings, symphonies and plays. It can be giant puppets, dancing, singing and so much more. Art really is in the eye of the beholder. It can mean so many different things to so many people. It truly enriches our lives!
Most memorable arts experience: I would have to say seeing the "Nutcracker" for the first time this past year with my family.
Personal Motto: Don't get so caught up in the daily grind that you never find any time to enjoy yourself.
Favorite Movie: The Sound of Music
Favorite Author: Danielle Steele
Favorite Musical Artist/Group: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Favorite TV Show: America's Funniest Videos (I also like Extreme Home Makeover but it makes me cry too much)
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Dennis Lyons
Director of Database Management
513.632.0135
Favorite arts discipline: Music
Most memorable arts experience: Going to the Art Museum for the first time as a kid.
Personal Motto: Make the most of every day
Favorite Movie: Cool Hand Luke
Favorite Musical Group: The Rolling Stones
Favorite TV Show: House
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Lisa Maly
Communications Associate, Arts and Culture Partnership
513.632.0114
Favorite arts discipline: Dance
Most memorable arts experience: The first time I saw Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre live at the City Center in New York City
Personal Motto: If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Favorite Movie: Anne of Green Gables
Favorite Musical Artist: Ray LaMontagne
Favorite TV Show: So You Think You Can Dance
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Traci Mans
Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives
513.632.0118
Favorite arts discipline: Music (more specifically instrumental and voice)
Most memorable arts experience: My junior year at Luther College when I auditioned for, and won, the prestigious Luther College Torgerson Concertmaster and Scholarship Award
Personal Motto: Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Favorite Movie: Terminator 2
Favorite Book/Author: Wallace Stegner Crossing To Safety; Wally Lamb She's Come Undone; Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are
Favorite Musical Artist/Group: Led Zeppelin, ABBA (Guilty)
Favorite TV Show: Gilmore Girls
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Mary McCullough-Hudson
President & CEO
513.632.0113
Favorite arts discipline: Not telling!
Most memorable arts experience: My first week as a freshman at CCM, slipped into a rehearsal of the Philharmonica Orchestra rehearsing Beethoven's Leonore Overture #3. Here were a bunch of kids in jeans - MY age - making the most extraordinary music. It absolutely took my breath away.
Personal Motto: It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. (Harry Truman)
Favorite Movie: American President or Air Force One (sense a theme?)
Favorite Author: John Le Carre (any of his spy novels)
Favorite Musical Artist: Michael Bublé
Favorite TV Show: News Hour with Jim Lehrer
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Beth McKinney
Finance Director
513.632.0140
Favorite arts discipline: Photograph
Most memorable arts experience: When they moved the mosaic murals to the airport, my dad pointed out the one that depicted the Cincinnati Milling Machine where he worked.
Personal Motto: Treat others as you would like them to treat you and honesty is the best policy.
Favorite Movie: Finding Forrester
Favorite Book: Exodus/Uris; The Secrets of Life Every Woman Should Know
Favorite Musical Artist: Barry Manilow
Favorite TV Show: Grey's Anatomy (current), Jeopardy (continuing), Once and Again (past)
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Thomas McLaughlin
Communications Associate, Arts & Culture Partnership
513.632.0120
Favorite arts discipline: Theatre
Most memorable arts experience: Competing in set design at the International Thespian Festival.
Personal Motto: Live in the moment.
Favorite Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You
Favorite TV Show: Brothers and Sisters
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Joyce Monger
Consultant, Art Services
513.632.0115
Favorite arts discipline: Visual Arts
Most memorable arts experience: A private, up close and personal tour of Dia Beacon, NY.
Personal Motto: Carpe Diem
Favorite Movie: Love Actually
Favorite Book/Author: Too many to name
Favorite Musical Artist/Group: The Beatles
Favorite TV Show: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Jodi Perry
Campaign Manager
513.632.0125
Favorite arts discipline: music (all types)
Most memorable arts experience: Singing with friends over the years (high school, college and beyond). Lots of great memories.
Personal Motto: Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Favorite Movie: Kill Bill
Favorite Book/Author: Stephen King
Favorite Musical Artist/Group: The Monkees
Favorite TV Show: Arrested Development
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Laura Philipps
Campaign Administrator
513.632.0130
Favorite arts discipline: Theatre
Most memorable arts experience: Seeing the Armand Hammer Collection at the Cincinnati Art Museum in the early eighties. Truly unbelievable to be so close to such masterpieces.
Personal Motto: Life is Short; Be Good, Do Good!
Favorite Movie: The Sting
Favorite Author: Jodi Picoult
Favorite Musical Artist: Paul Thorn
Favorite TV Show: Lost
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Susan Reichelderfer
Executive Assistant
513.632.0111
Favorite arts discipline: Theatre
Most memorable arts experience: All of them
Personal Motto: Do the right thing.
Favorite Movie: Shawshank Redemption
Favorite Book: Cider House Rules
Favorite Musical Group: Maroon 5
Favorite TV Show: The Unit
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Michelle Reeves
Associate Manager of Campaign Operations
513.632.0124
Favorite arts discipline: Theater
Most memorable arts experience: Learning to pick-pocket by attending a performance of Oliver Twist in elementary school.
Favorite Movie: Mary Poppins
Favorite Author: Ronald Dahl
Favorite Musical Group: The Beatles and REM
Favorite TV Show: House
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Marcelina Robledo
Manager of Multiculture Arts Initiatives
513.632.0146
Favorite arts discipline: Film, music, theatre, dance, visual art…pretty much everything
Most memorable arts experience: The CSO season opening for 2001-02. The concert was the same week as 9/11. In honor of the occasion, the symphony played Adagio for Strings. Not a dry eye in the house…
Personal Motto: My business is to create!
Favorite Movie: There are too many…but one that always makes me stop and watch is Harold and Maud
Favorite Book: A Wrinkle in Time
Favorite Author: Dorothy Parker
Favorite Musical Group: The Beatles
Favorite Musical Artist: Rickie Lee Jones and Joni Mitchell
Favorite TV Show: Northern Exposure (an old but goody)
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Vaishali Shah
Staff Accountant
513.631.0136
Favorite arts discipline: Dance
Most memorable arts experience: Watching my son perform Indian folk dance at Fountain Square two years ago.
Personal Motto: Live and let live.
Favorite Movie: Pretty Woman
Favorite Book: My Sister’s Keeper
Favorite Author: Depends what I want to read... Jeffery Archer, Sidney Sheldon, Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Spark
Favorite Music: Bollywood music
Favorite Musical Artist: A.R. Rehman – as a singer and a composer.
Favorite TV show: Dancing with Stars, Parenthood, and Amazing Race
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Jeff Taylor
Associate Campaign Director, Major Gifts & Regional Initiatives
513.632.0121
Favorite arts discipline: Sculptures
Most memorable arts experience: The weekend after 9/11, I attended a Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performance that had been quickly modified to be a memorial concert. It was very moving.
Personal Motto: Be Prepared.
Favorite Movie: Rain Man
Favorite Author: Franklin Roosevelt by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Favorite Musical Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Favorite TV Show: 30 Rock
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Sylvia Thornton
Office Manager
513.632.0100
Most memorable arts experience: The time I went to see a play at the Playhouse - I love plays so when I saw the actor put on this performance playing all of those different characters it was just amazing.
Personal Motto: Laughter is the best medicine in my book - We have to live day by day and overcome the obstacles that are thrown at us because at the end of the day you should be proud of what you were able to accomplish.
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Margy Waller
Vice President, Arts & Culture Partnership
513.632.0131
Favorite arts discipline: Music and theatre.
Most memorable arts experience: Listening to my parents play music.
Personal Motto: Remember that sometimes losing well is winning.
Favorite Book/Author: Manhattan When I was Young by Mary Cantwell
Favorite Musical Group: The Mix
Favorite TV Show: The Wire and Mad Men
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Vanessa White
Director of Community Engagement & Strategic Initiatives
513.632.0116
Favorite arts discipline: Theater and Choral Music
Most memorable arts experience: Performing in the Jr. High Talent Show at WHHS as the commercial break. I sang the Mr. Bubble jingle, and yes, I was dressed up as a bubble!
Personal Motto: Let's get the job done.
Favorite Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Favorite Book: Let Them Eat Cake
Favorite Musical Artist: Hard to pick; I love a lot of different female vocalists
Favorite TV Show: The Practice
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Lisa Wolter
Campaign Director
513.632.0127
Favorite arts discipline: Visual Arts, Opera
Most memorable arts experience: Taking my kids to see any live performance - we always have fun and it's memorable for all of us.
Personal Motto: Be intentional.
Favorite Movie: Little Miss Sunshine, Bridget Jones' Diary
Favorite Book: 100 Secret Senses
Favorite Musical Group: Coldplay
Favorite TV Show: So You Think You Can Dance
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