SHELDON WOLF has worked in the arts his entire life. As a teenager, he was summer stock technical apprentice and then prop master at the Tappan Zee Playhouse, outside NYC. He completed his BA (Theatre-English) at Queens College (Phi Beta Kappa) and his MFA (Directing) at Brooklyn College. After working as a lighting assistant, literary manager and assorted other positions Off Broadway, he wanted to eat on a regular basis and entered the management side of theatre as an unpaid intern at the Chelsea Theater Center. Within months, he headed the marketing department there. In 1977, his play, Blizzard, was produced at the Lion Theatre in NYC. In 1979, he moved to Springfield, Massachusetts to head marketing and development at StageWest. From 1986 to 1999, he was VP of Marketing and Development at the Springfield Library and Museums, followed by top management positions at the High Museum of Art (Atlanta) and the New England Aquarium (Boston). For two years, he chaired the 1100-member Development and Membership Committee of the American Association of Museums. Presently, Sheldon is President of Advancement Company, LLC, a consulting firm based outside Philadelphia. He returned to playwrighting in 2002.
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