With the New Calendar year will come new executive management at Starlight! This week, Bess Wallerstein Huff joins the workforce at the historic theatre in Swope Park as Starlight’s new Vice President of Promoting and Revenue. Cindy Jeffries held the posture for 18 yrs. Starlight’s selecting committee, which include its board of administrators, executed a nationwide look for to fill the part and supplied the position to Wallerstein Huff late very last calendar year.

“Starlight Theatre is an iconic, historical location that has been a cornerstone of doing arts in Kansas Town,” Wallerstein Huff stated. “I am thrilled to be a aspect of an institution that has such deep roots in the community and is seeking in direction of developing new dwell arts activities.”

Prior to accepting the position at Starlight Theatre, Wallerstein Huff served as the Director of Advertising and Community Outreach at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. She joined the team at the Kauffman Heart in 2010, and was an integral aspect of the building’s grand opening serving numerous roles in internet marketing and programming in her eleven-calendar year tenure, together with overseeing communications, media and local community relations, institutional and programmatic promoting, organizational branding, and training outreach courses. She has almost 20 years of expertise in the non-income performing arts business and has also worked as the Director of Operations and Local community Relations for the Heart of America Shakespeare Competition and Creation Manager for Theater League, Inc.

“Bess is already these kinds of a respected member of the Kansas Metropolis arts local community, and we’re so enthusiastic for the awareness and strength that she will carry to Starlight,” Loaded Baker, Starlight’s President and CEO, reported. “Her enthusiasm for the tasks at hand, her enjoyment to collaborate and her established track history make her the great addition to the govt workforce.”

As an entrepreneur and advocate for cultural progress, Wallerstein Huff was the owner and main member of CounterClockwise Comedy, served as the Government Producer of the Kansas City Improv Pageant and served launch the Prairie Village Jazz Pageant. Most just lately, Wallerstein Huff was the founder and co-operator of Display Sent,…