Chad Bauman
Director of Marketing and Communications
Arena Stage
Chad Bauman is the director of marketing and communications for Arena Stage, where he supervises the marketing, communications and public relations departments and is charged with designing marketing campaigns to bring over 275,000 patrons to the company per year. Before Arena Stage, Chad served as director of marketing & 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. He has done pro bono work for the California Arts Advocates, the California Arts Council, and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Chad currently sits on funding panels for the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and was just appointed to a three-year term as a Helen Hayes Awards judge in Washington, DC. 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 http://www.arts-marketing.blogspot.com/. Chad was an Ahmanson Scholar at the California Institute of the Arts where he received his M.F.A in theater management and producing. In addition, Chad holds a B.S.Ed in theater and speech education summa cum laude from the Honors College of Missouri State University.