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Daniel Jones (he/him) is a Nashville-based producer, dramaturg, writer, and director passionate about facilitating creative storytelling, diverse narratives, and shared live arts experiences that ignite social change. In his role as Manager of Artistic Programming at OZ Arts Nashville, Daniel has supported hundreds of visiting artists from around the world, including New York, Brazil, Chile, Germany, and more. He also works closely with Nashville artists as they develop new works in the organization's unique 10,000 square-foot warehouse. As the Producing Artistic Director of Kindling Arts, Daniel has worked with hundreds of Nashville-based artists to launch 50+ unique artistic experiences since the organization was founded in 2018. Through Kindling Arts, Daniel co-conceived and co-directed The Naughty Tree, a queering of the Garden of Eden creation story, which The Nashville Scene called "freewheeling, uncensored and full of heart, pushing the boundaries of what we imagine performance art to be." Daniel's other local producing credits include two installments of Heroic Couplets: Poetry into Film Collaborations with Defy Film Festival and HAUNTED (First Night's Theatrical Event of the Year), a multimedia, immersive experience inspired by the deadliest train crash in American history. A native of Knoxville, TN, Jones received his BA in Theatre Studies and Writing, Literature & Publishing from Emerson College in Boston.
Christi is a native of Nashville and a graduate of Western Kentucky University where she earned a BFA in Theatre, emphasis in musical theatre performance. For six years, she worked professionally in musical theatre as a triple threat traveling up and down the east coast, Tennessee & Kentucky. Once she left the road life, Christi joined the administrative staff of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC). In her years with TPAC she had many roles including managing the box office, subscription office, group sales, oversight of relationships with Ticketmaster & three Resident Companies, and institutional customer service.
The last ten years with TPAC Christi oversaw the programming and event/rental negotiations for TPAC’s four venues. She was part of the executive leadership team and co-produced six different shows including Nashville House Concerts, a monthly music series at War Memorial focused on all the sounds that make Nashville unlike any other town. With the assistance of a programming & sales team, Christi helped secure top-named acts and smaller performing arts debuts, while building wider awareness of TPAC’s historic music hall War Memorial Auditorium, the venues TPAC, and the outstanding in-house services available to its partners. She was also able to grow activity by over 40% in a 5-year period hosting host over 500 events and long-run engagements in a year.
Christi took a few years away from Nashville to be part of the reopening of the legendary theater Westport County Playhouse in Connecticut. With then artistic director Joanne Woodward and board members such as Christopher Plummer, Gene Wilder and Paul Newman the Playhouse opened with their first ever year-round season. While with the Playhouse she served as the Patron Services Manager overseeing ticketing, customer service, & client services. She managed the installation & data transition to a new ticketing software, developed new co-promotion relationships with community arts partners, secured rental event business, all while working closely with marketing & development to increase audience base and sponsorship opportunities.
Christi is grateful for the opportunities she has enjoyed in the arts & entertainment world, both onstage and backstage. It is through her unique experiences that she has been able to better understand the needs -both artistically & financially - of all involved in the industry and evaluate a path beneficial to everyone involved in a project.
Margaret Prim - Vice President
Bev Moser - Booking Secretary
Sam Hahn - Treasurer
Lauren Brown - Member-at-Large
Blake Smith - Member-at-Large
Vicki Hudson - Member-at-Large
Dave Ragland - Member-at-Large
Ron Jewell - Member-at-Large
Stephen Krempasky - Past President
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