I’m a performing arts line producer, designer, and creative director.
My passion is designing experiences that are meaningful, memorable, and human.
I design experiences from receiving an email to participating in a large international festival, and everything in between.
Ma·ia | ˈmīə, ˈmā(y)ə | noun: the Roman goddess associated with growth.
Sara has worked as an opera + performing arts event producer and organizer for almost two decades. From 2004 to 2011, she ran a highly successful performing arts festival for the prestigious College-Conservatory of Music at University of Cincinnati in Lucca, and later in Spoleto (Italy).
While general manager of these festivals, she was responsible for moving hundreds of people across the ocean each summer, mounting hundreds of performances, producing operas, and keeping symphony orchestras, opera casts, theatre technicians, conductors, singers, concert soloists, teachers, and interns, happy, healthy and safe.
She was also responsible for governmental and local relations, PR, and marketing, along with the plethora of other things that go with keeping that many people happy while in a foreign place. She speaks fluent Italian, and in addition to bringing performing artists and their art over to Italy, she’s also well-versed in bringing her small children along for the ride.
She loves facilitating great art, bringing people together, and taking care of creatives. Favorite, gets-you-out-of-bed (or, can’t stop working and go to sleep!) types of work include: problem solving + strategy, graphic design, copy writing, project management, web design, making people feel special.
Read compliments on her work here.
Check out her work in Italy here.
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