Rick Cunningham

Event Manager

Rick has been managing national events as an independent contractor since 1991.  He has worked in every region of the United States, plus Toronto and London.  Some of the more interesting event venues include the Louisiana Superdome; the Houston Astrodome; Washington Redskin’s Fed Ex Field; the Concert Hall, Terrace Theatre and Family Theatre of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.; Lakeland Air Force Base in San Antonio and the Boston World Trade Center.  For six years he was Production Manager of FIRST NIGHT® WILMINGTON (DE), an annual event with up to 40 performance venues and over 250 artists. Organizations he has worked for include the National Football League; Gubernatorial Inauguration Committees for Massachusetts and Delaware; Points of Light Foundation; National Women’s Law Center; Emily’s List; Anti-Defamation League; MBNA; the DuPont Corporation; People for the American Way; Wellness Community; the Delaware Foundation for Reaching Citizens with Cognitive Disabilities; and Project Children.  From 2002-2006 he was Coordinator of the Stage Management Mentoring Project for the United States Institute for Theatre Technology where he assembled and supervised a staff of 25 stage managers responsible for a dozen major events at the national 4-day conferences.  Rick founded and still heads the M. F. A. Stage Management program for the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware and holds an M.F.A. in Directing from Tulane University.

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