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 Steven
A. Wolff, President
AMS Planning & Research Corp.
Steven
A. Wolff,
CMC, is
the founding Principal of AMS Planning & Research Corp.
and Audience Insight LLC. He works from the firm's Connecticut
headquarters. For 25 years, Steven has provided counsel to
leading arts and entertainment enterprises in the planning
and development of capital facilities, strategic initiatives
and arts market and consumer research.
Steven has participated in the development of more than
$3 billion of new and renovated capital facilities for the
arts. He has provided counsel to owners and developers on
a wide array of projects, from large-scale arts centers to
the reactivation of historic theatres and the development
of community facilities, as well as complicated mixed-use
developments. Steven has been instrumental in the planning
of many of the most significant arts center projects in North
America, including the proposed international dance center
at the World Trade Center site, the Dallas Center for Performing
Arts, the Dr. Phillips (Orlando) Performing Arts Center,
the Orange County Performing Arts Center and many others.
Steven has guided projects through all stages of development
from project definition through needs assessment to site
selection, financing and project implementation and operation.
In the
area of strategic planning, research and management counsel,
Steven has conducted assignments in program design and
evaluation, management audits, long-range strategic planning
and market research for national philanthropic foundations,
including the Wallace Foundation, the Heinz Endowments,
the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Knight Foundation and
leading producers, presenters and national service organizations.
Current efforts include a national scan and planning effort
for Americans for the Arts and an international benchmarking
study for major performing arts centers. He has guided innovative
strategic planning efforts for clients from Harlem's
Apollo Theater to the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs.
Steven has been instrumental in the development of innovative
"shared services" businesses which expand the capacity
of arts producers and presenters across the country. AMS's
research practice, Audience Insight is an acknowledged industry
leader in arts consumer and market information. AI's
clients include performing arts centers, symphony orchestras,
commercial theatrical producers, presenters, children's
theater companies, ballet companies, museums and other arts
agencies.
Steven
is on the faculty at the Yale School of Drama, where he
received a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater administration,
and teaches Decision Support. He is a frequent speaker at
national conferences and a guest lecturer at many major universities,
including the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prior
to founding AMS in 1988, Steven was a manager in the New
York office of London-based Theatre Projects Consultants.
He is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants
and holds the designation Certified Management Consultant
(CMC). Steven served as an officer on the Board the nationally-known
Westport Country Playhouse (2001 - 2006) and is currently
on the Executive Committee of the New York Yacht Club. |
