Biography

As a producer and manager with exceptional abilities to organize theatrical operations and productions, Darren has trained and worked in both non-profit and commercial venues on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in regional and community theaters. In addition to managing and producing, Darren has also acted, directed, designed and stage managed. This broad experience offers a rounded perspective to theaters of any level, budget or setting.

Among the theaters and organizations that Darren has worked and trained at are Manhattan Theatre Club, the Shubert Organization, the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (the service and advocacy organization for New York City nonprofit theaters), the Warner Theatre in Torrington, Connecticut, and several small companies in New York City. Currently, he is part-time Executive Director of NCTC Performing Arts Theatre, Connecticut’s oldest operating children’s theater and the state’s only theater in which children perform on tour, and founding Executive Producing Director of New Britain Youth Theater. Darren holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University School of the Arts where he studied Theater Management and Production under some of the country’s most productive and successful producers, managers and administrators. Coursework in that program included production, finance, grantwriting, marketing and publicity, and general management. Darren is also an attorney with a degree from Fordham University School of Law, with experience in entertainment law, commercial litigation, and appellate writing and argument. He received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Darren is a native of Litchfield County in Connecticut, where he again resides with his wife and daughter.

Select Writings and Publications

Three Thousand Miles from Broadway: Not for Profit Theater on the Great Commercial Way, Columbia University School of the Arts MFA Thesis

Should the First Amendment Protect Against Right of Publicity Infringement Actions Where the Media Is Merchandiser?: Say It Ain’t So, Joe, 7 FORDHAM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 779 (1997)

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