Consulting and Writing

With a career spanning over twenty-five years in arts production and management, arts advocacy, and law, Darren is the ideal candidate for your administrative, advancement, or communications project or position.

Representative short-term consulting projects have included:

  • Manageing 5th annual public outdoor program for Watertown Cultural District; fostering collaborations with multiple stakeholders and community partnerships
  • Securing state and private grant funding for Hartford-area children’s theater through strategic research and proposal writing, allowing the company to expand a statewide touring program
  • As Peer Advisor for 7 years for the Connecticut Department of Economic Development, delivering expert guidance to arts organizations statewide: drafting and reviewing grant applications; developing comprehensive business plans, financial systems, and board recruitment strategies that allowed emerging arts organizations to expand projects and programming to better serve their communities; and conducting organizational assessments and prepared performance groups for executive transition and growth
  • As Connecticut’s State Advocacy Captain, facilitating and strengthening lobbying efforts with Americans for the Arts

Among the administrative projects Darren is available to assist with are:

  • Long-range and organizational planning
  • Board and staff development
  • Strategic planning
  • Administrative support and transition management
  • Development of program or administrative procedures
  • Program evaluations

Likewise, clear, concise, and compelling writing and editing take time and experience. Darren has over twenty-five years’ experience in writing that includes grant applications and reports, promotional press and marketing pieces, advocacy materials, and internal policy and organizational documents.

In arts or any industry, Darren offers writing and editing services for projects such as the following:

  • Grant applications and reports
  • Marketing copy for promotional materials
  • Press releases
  • Newsletters
  • Websites and blog posts
  • Speeches and presentations
  • Promotional audio and video scripts

Please call or email to discuss these or any other administrative or writing projects.