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Chad M. Bauman is the director of communications for Arena Stage, where he supervises the marketing, media relations, audience development, sales, publications and front of house efforts, and is charged with bringing over 225,000 patrons to the company per year. Before Arena Stage, Chad served as director of marketing and communications for Americans for the Arts and Virginia Stage Company. He has had the privilege of working with REDCAT in Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Center for New Theater, LA Stage Alliance, and the Santa Fe Opera in various capacities. Notable projects include audience development campaigns for the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall, and a management stint for the Center for New Theater’s site specific production of King Lear which opened in Los Angeles and was the opener of the Frictions Festival in Dijon, France. In 2003, he chaired the publicity campaign to save the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and its funding. A prolific speaker, Chad has presented sessions on arts marketing for the Delaware Division for the Arts, the Arts & Business Council of New York, the St. Louis Regional Arts Council, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, and the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. He also writes and maintains an arts marketing blog at www.arts-marketing.blogspot.com. Chad was an Ahmanson Scholar at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) where he received his Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) in theater management and producing. In addition, Chad holds a Bachelor of Science in Education (B.S.Ed) in theater and speech education summa cum laude from the Honors College of Missouri State University.