Brian Jose
Director of Marketing and Communications
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland
Brian Jose has been the director of marketing and communications for the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland since 2000. His primary responsibility as a member of the Center’s senior leadership is brand development strategy. Mr. Jose has knowledge across a number of arts organizations and disciplines including orchestras, museums, theater, dance, visual arts, arts technology, and higher education. Before his tenure at the Clarice Smith Performing Art Center, Jose worked at the Arizona State University Herberger College of Fine Arts. Prior to ASU, Jose was involved with the opening of the new Phoenix Art Museum. His orchestral experience includes nine years between the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. He received a bachelor’s degree in communications from Wittenberg University.
Jose’s unremarkable acting career includes performances as “the Groom” in Alan Ball’s Five Woman Wearing the Same Dress, when critics pondered, “Who’d marry that guy?” Jose, in other duties as assigned, was also cast as a “writhing Felliniesque orgyite” in the Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s semi-staged version of Elektra. Unfamiliar with the concept of a “dance belt,” Jose’s stage debut is still talked about.