1. Tony Santiago
925 W Winona Street ttsantiago@gmail.com
Chicago, IL 60640 540.847.3040
Objective:
EXPERIENCE
Oracle Productions, NFP, Associate Artistic Director August 2012 – Present
Contribute strategically to Oracle’s mission: make quality art accessible for all. Produce and manage
mainstage programming. Curate and line-produce events and co-productions. Assist Communication
Director in developing content for electronic platforms and printed material. Develop contracts. Develop
community engagement opportunities to increase audience and support programming and mission.
Maintain production budgets, coordinate schedules, hire, and manage production staff. Manage deadlines
for marketing initiatives, ticketing, and front of house instructions. Mentor artists and partners in Public
Access Theatre mission, hiring practices and fundraising practices. Coordinate lobby décor.
www.publicaccesstheatre.org
Catharsis Productions, Educator January 2014 – July 2016
Deliver sexual assault programming in for military, high school, and college. Liaison between company
and clientele. Maintain Military Contractor Clearance (CAC). Meet varying clientele's educational
demands for high profile clients. Create and maintain records in compliance with US Army and
Department of Navy. Utilize communication and logistical platforms including FileMaker, Concur, Wistia,
Outlook and Excel. *Winner of the 2015 Best Speaker of the Year award from Campus Activities Magazine.
AboutFace Theatre, Educator August 2008 – September 2013
About Face Theatre creates exceptional, innovative, and adventurous plays to advance the national
dialogue on gender and sexual identity. Develop and facilitate the creation of youth lead education and
outreach programming during Bonnie Metzgar's tenure. Meet clients’ needs for social justice education
and provided safe spaces and opportunities for youth to discuss sex positivity, safe and healthy choices,
and the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality identities.
Bidclerk, Project Reporter August 2008- August 2009
Collaborate with clients on bidding process. Communicate with architects, project managers, general
contractors, and subcontractors about construction projects. Publish projects and updates on website;
review planning commission documents, and newspaper articles. Build industry contacts to ensure
accurate and speedy project updates. Record construction projects’ timelines and proposed design teams,
developers, architects, engineers and owner information accurately in the CRM. Maintained information
accuracy from planning, development, and design stages.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Assistant Public Relations Manager, May 2006 – May 2008
Create TheatreVCU’s first advertising campaign.
*Sold just under 15K in advertising in less than 4mos.
Create conceptual drafts for clients. Conduct sales and advertisement trades with all clients. Support
Graphic Designer, Director of Public Relations, and Chairman in administrative tasks. Communicate
client’s advertisement needs to graphic designer and printing company. Provide sales and expense
records for upper management.