Barbara Hauptman
After 12 years, BARBARA HAUPTMAN retired as Executive Director of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, a national independent labor union, in December 2007. While at SSDC, she was instrumental in restructuring the Broadway contract, pursing major property rights issues, doubling the membership, as well as enhancing the programming of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. Prior to her appointment at SSDC, Ms. Hauptman was the Executive Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. As Executive Director of the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Dutchess County, New York, she established a residency with the Acting Company; introduced the community to emerging contemporary artists and orchestrated the theater's 125th Anniversary celebration. Producing, managing, and writing for television took Barbara away from the live performing arts during the mid-80s. As Vice-President, Manager of Daytime Programming for Saatchi and Saatchi Compton Advertising, she represented Procter and Gamble's interests in daytime television serials. Later she wrote for two award-winning series as an associate writer. Other experience includes being Director of Operations for the Theatre Development Fund and TKTS booth. As an Arts Analyst for the New York State Council on the Arts in the late 70s, Barbara helped nurture many theaters that are today among the mainstays of the industry. She produced Twyla Tharp on Broadway and general managed at the Williamstown Theater Festival. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in Theater Administration, she has been an adjunct professor at SUNY/New Paltz, and NYU. She has been a consultant in theater, dance, and for private arts foundations. Her Board of Directors service includes Second Stage Theatre Company, Dance Theatre Workshop, and Bard Music Festival. Barbara has served on local, regional and statewide arts councils as a panelist, and been published by the Foundation for the Extension and Development of the American Professional Theatre and the Yale Journal of Regulation. She has been a Broadway Tony Voter since 1996. As of August 2009, Barbara will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in Arts Management at SUNY/Purchase. Bio as of May, 2011. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio) 2002 Symposium: The Director Choreographer Relationship - June, 2002 - Listen Now. Self-Produced Work - January, 2011 - Listen Now.