Felicia M. Lopes just finished
her ninth year as the General Manager of the Drama
Desk Awards. She has more than
13 years of work and leadership experience in the areas of project
management, event production and marketing, media campaign
management, corporate communications, public relations, celebrity
involvement, creative direction, sponsor relations and
media planning.
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| Felicia M. Lopes at the 2009 Drama Desk Awards |
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She serves as President of 5
Stone Productions, LLC, a theatrical management
company and as Producing Artistic Director of Eastern Gate Entertainment, a theatrical production
company in New York City with a mission to explore, produce
and manage plays, musicals and events that speak to
values and universal truths that are often overlooked in today’s
society.
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Commercial Theatre General Manager—(5 Stone Productions, LLC):
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LET MY PEOPLE COME...AGAIN! by Earl Wilson Jr., an updated
version for the 21st century of the global, worldwide, Grammy- nominated hit sexual musical comedy from the 1970's and 1980's.
SHADES OF HARLEM, The
Cotton Club Musical - looking to revive a tour of the long-time NY originated hit off-Broadway show directed by Adam Wade.
YOU’RE IT! by Earl Wilson Jr., a family
friendly musical romp about life in the theater from the perspective of the performer that puts the audience in the show.
THE LUIGI BOARD by Elizabeth
Fuller and Katie Rader, a slap-stick, vaudevillian, family comedy that’s served best with dinner!
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Commercial Theatre Producer—(Eastern
Gate Entertainment, Inc.):
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KING
DAVID, the NY Times critically acclaimed Off-Broadway show by Ellen Sanborn and David M. Sanborn, where this epic
Biblical story of King David comes alive with a “cast” of Hollywood’s biggest stars as Sanborn, in a tour
de force performance, impersonates the voices of Hollywood’s biggest stars to depict key characters in this epic Biblical
tale; (Co-Producer and General Manager) ANGELS, the new Australian musical spectacle expected
to open on Broadway in the Spring of 2010; (Associate Producer) JUDAH BEN-HUR, the internationally renowned
musical scheduled to open on Broadway in 2010; by Ellen Sanborn and David M. Sanborn (originally produced in Singapore in
2001); (General Manager and Co-Producer); C.S. Lewis’ THE GREAT DIVORCE, the
NY Times critically acclaimed play about choices, will and humanity produced by Magis Theater Company, directed by George
Drance; (General Manager);
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Corporate Events Producer:
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Ms.
Lopes has served as a consultant to Red Carpet Media Partners LLC (RCMP), a full service consulting and management firm that
oversees the humanitarian interests of celebrity activists and the non-profit and corporate partners who support them.
For clients in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington DC, Ms. Lopes was one of three consultants who jointly conceptualized,
developed, and produced high profile charity events, national media campaigns, charity photo shoots, benefit concerts and
tours, charity singles, audio podcasts, video projects, and televised programming. Ms. Lopes oversaw
corporate and non-profit client business development and production management logistics for all projects. She
lead the management of event logistics including: staffing, vendor management, entertainment, corporate sponsorship acquisition,
budgeting, event timeline, catering, décor and thematic creation, seating, invitation production and mailing and database
management.
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Projects included: Event Date: 10/20/2006 – AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION’S LIVE THE GOOD LIFE
PROJECT Gala at Pier 60, NYC. Event Date: 4/30/2006 — RALLY
TO STOP GENOCIDE/The Million Voices National Choir Project – Washington Event Date: 2/7/2006 — LIVE
FOR DARFUR/3rd Annual Pre-Grammy All Star Jam at the Key Club – Hollywood
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Ms. Lopes is a member of the Broadway League and an MFA
graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts’ Theatre Management and Producing Program
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