Reva Fox

• In my role, I innovate, develop and implement a diverse and cohesive arts & culture programming for the members and the community at large. Create, execute and communicate philosophy and vision of the cultural arts through work with staff, program users, lay leadership as well as partner agencies and organizations.
• Develop and cultivate and maintain partnerships both internally and externally. Collaborate internally with departments such as Special Needs and Inclusion, Fitness, Community Programs, Gan Ami, and Kidscenter. And collaborate externally with outside organizations such as the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, CJL, HERC, Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Wisconsin Art, and the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, among others.
• Build Partnerships and collaborations with artists from all over the world. Both for art exhibits, virtual and in person programming.
• Work to create community led art programs that allow for local community to participate in and exhibit artwork. Build community pride by promoting and sharing these artists.
• Oversee Jewish Education by developing classes with teachers and lay leaders to provide diverse learning opportunities for our participants. Recruit, supervise, and collaborate with teachers.
• Create, maintain, and monitor budgets for Arts & Culture programming. Ensure that fiscal goals are met. Work with Finance to not only maintain current budget, but to develop future budgeting priorities.
• Partner with FRD team to identify, develop, and steward donors for Arts programming.
• Steward individual donors by developing relationships and connecting with people's interests and passions.
• Steward company donors by working and connecting with companies during events and programs.
• Oversee performances within the JCC. Shepard artists to come to Milwaukee and work with our JCC. Communicate with managers, artists, tech crew, etc to ensure the right environment for artists and programs.
• Hire, collaborate, and supervise local tech crews, installation crew, and run crews for live performances and in person exhibits.
• Participate in and lead professional development programming for staff throughout the JCC.
• Co-chair of the Justice, equity, diversity, and Inclusion committee. Develop the work that supports our JEDI covenant and begins to create a workplace, workforce, and community that is JEDI strong.
• Lead All Staff Communication meetings. One of a three staff person team that was selected to lead all the staff communication meetings. My area of expertise is Jewish Learning, highlighting staff accomplishments, and connecting staff to ourside organizations that support similar missions.
• Work collaboratively with JCC staff across departments to integrate Arts & Culture throughout the agency
• Ensure that JCC Arts & Culture programs are adequately staffed and that they have adequate supplies so that our programs maintain excellence in quality and delivery
• Lead and collaborate with a lay lead committee to create and promote programming.
• Participate in interviewing and hiring process for my own and other departments.
• Participate in annual staff evaluations and professional development evaluations.

• (producer) Kohl’s Wild Theater is part of the Education Department of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee. The company performs educational STEM-based performances for Outreach and at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
• Participate in all hiring and staffing decisions
• Participate in the strategic planning for both Kohl's Wild Theater and the Zoological Society Education Department.
• Work with Corporate donor to deliver on the grant lead initiatives, meet targets, and grow program.
• Participate in the Hometown Partners: group of recipient organizations of Corporate donor. Lead initiative to partner and support each other's missions and programming.
• Supervision of multiple direct reports in different areas of the program.
• Participates in the development of new work, from inception to production.
• Supervises Stage managers and production elements of outreach and zoo productions.
• Hires, supervises, and collaborates with outside artists including designers, directors, and music directors,
• Coordinates designers, TDs, Stage Managers, Directors, and Actors during all aspects of production.
• Collaborated with and built relationships with staff throughout the Zoological Society and the Milwaukee County Zoo.
• Budgeting for all supplies and maintains fiscal goals for both design and supply budgets.
• Supervises inventory and all purchasing
• Coordinates production staffing and scheduling.
• Supervises Admin staff and collaborates on marketing, social media, and media promotion of KWT.

• Travel to school venues and interact with Faculty and Staff to set up and run technical elements during performances for students.
• Function as Liaison between KWT staff and the school staff.
• Supervise the Zoo performance venue: including technical equiptment, design elements, and venue itself.
• Coordinate and Venue supervise for the visiting performance/zoo staff
• Manage multiple teams of actors during rehearsals and performances including scheduling.
• Schedule, manage, and train a staff of part-time stage managers.
• Manage and document hours and budgeting for the team.
• Supervise the teams at outreach performances and at Zoo performances. Budgeting, purchasing, storage, and inventory of all props, supplies, scenery, and costumes.
• Act as liaison between outside designers and KWT as well as between other departments at MZS and KWT.
• Create and supervise the production procedures for each performance and venue.
• Coordinate all blocking scripts, tech cue scripts, oversee technical aspects of performances.
• Offer creative and technical input during production meetings regarding scenic and tech elements of productions.
• Coordinate and maintain technical elements of productions and repair as necessary. Assist in development of new works for outreach and Zoo venue productions. Supervise and offer creative input during new works workshops.

• Teacher for 10th – 12th grade students in Acting, Musical Comedy Acting, Voice/Speech, Movement, Choreography, and auditioning.
• Direct students in the musical, WORKING.
• Coach students on audition skills and song selection.
• Stage, Choreograph, and Design production
• Work with Head of Company to provide education in line with First Stage's goals
• Collaborate with Music Director and other Faculty.

• Work closely with Administration, Teachers, and Staff to integrate Performing Arts into day to day lessons.
• Work in the classroom with students on different arts-based activities.
• Teach 5thgrade students Broadcasting, On-camera work, and Speaking on-camera.
• Coordinate BACH’s Lunch, an exciting and innovative music-based performance experience involving both professional and peer performers.
• Direct the entire 5thgrade class in a production of Lion King Kids.
• Work side-by-side with Teachers in the classroom and in Professional Development workshops including Storytelling for Teachers.
• Assist in grant-writing process.

• Teach undergraduate Majors and non-majors.
• Collaborate interdepartmentally on Freshman Seminar class

Classes include:

• Intro to Theatre for non-majors
• Freshman Seminar: Ghosts and the Supernatural in Theatre
• Voice and Speech for the Actor I
• Voice and Speech for the Actor II
• Play Analysis: Ancient Greek-Restoration
• Senior Seminar: Theatre History.

Kulanu: 2015

Teach Improvisation with students 8th-10thgrade. Work with the students on Improv games, and exercises to promote listening skills, responding positively, thinking positively, and working as a team.

Bunny Gumbo Combat Theatre Boot Camp:2010-2015

Work with 9th – 12th grade students. Advise, mentor, train, and coach students through the process of Combat Theatre. Mentor and support directors and throughout the production process. Teach creative problem solving, theatre, and leadership skills.

Coalition for Jewish Learning: 2009

Develop and teach workshop to 7th-12th grade students. Work with archive materials at the Milwaukee Jewish Museum. Coach students in first-person and research the archives to write powerful and expressive monologues. Develop, rehearse, and perform monologues the museum. The students’ performance runs on continuous loop at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee as part of the Jewish Lens Exhibit May-July 2010.

Maple Dale School: 2012-2019

Work with this show for 7 years in various capacities, including co-director and acting coach for 3rd – 8th grade actors in annual school musical. Oversee acting coaching of main cast and chorus members. Teach, supervise and lead student tech crew. Since 2017, work in partnership with First Stage Theatre Academy and coordinate the student show crew and teach a class in theatrical design and technical theater for the students interested in show crew.

Guest Lecturer - Freelance: 2007-present

Develop and teach innovative Voice and Speech for the Actor and Voiceover for Animation Workshops at Universities and Professional Societies in Wisconsin and northern Illinois.

PJ Library Program, a grant-funded project to bring Jewish-themed books to children ages 6 months-8 years.

• Coordinate the program at our JCC.
• Maintain the 500 families who participate in the
• Coordinate the local chapter and act as liaison with the National office.
• Recruit and connect with all new enrollees.
• Coordinate local office with National Organization and work with Coordinators around the country to develop and share programming.
• Develop programming through the JCC
• Teach a weekly story time involving the selection and implementation of a themed story and a coordinating activity.
• Develop and perform monthly pajama story times for families.
• Create and coordinate outreach program to enrich local libraries, bookstores, and play areas.

Director of the Theatre Arts Program: Head of BA and BFA programs in the theatre arts program.

• Hire and supervise all faculty and staff,
• Create three new senior staff positions for the program: Financial and Managing Department Director, Production Manager, and Head of Acting
• Hire teaching staff in London, England for the study abroad program
• Select plays for production season,
• Hire and supervise directors for production season,
• Hire and supervise designers for production season along with Production Manager
• Create the course schedule for upcoming semesters working within the course requirements for both degree programs.
• Create and implement a new budgeting system for the Theatre Arts Program to better track annual spending in both academic and production venues.
• Supervise annual budgets and spending,
• Advise sophomore through senior students
• Supervise new-student recruitment and BFA audition process.
• Establish BFA program-acceptance guidelines
• Create new audition for Scholarship competition
• Direct Mainstage Productions
• Supervise refurbishment of Theatre Lobby
• Develop new arc for B.F.A. Acting and B.F.A. Acting: Musical Theatre Track programs.
• Develop Theatre Workshop a performance venue for student developed work
• Develop program for productions to be performed in the Chat to expand the number of performances we can do without major increase in technical costs.
• Supervise class content,
• Supervise overall program direction.
• Develop scope and budget for Summer Theatre Program including Camp Shakespeare and Arcadia Shakespeare Festival,
• Develop relationship with Professional venues to create more internship options for Arcadia University students
• Work with University Relations to develop new strategy for production marketing
• Establish more open and effective communication between Theatre Program and University departments
• Student Academic Advisor
• Function at Program Faculty Advisor

Classes Taught

• Voice and Speech I for the Actor: This is the beginning voice class for the BFA program. Taught basic physiology of the voice and IPA vowels for correct pronunciation on stage. Used the Skinner book, Speak with Distinction but modified it for standard American speech. Coached monologue work with actors.
• Voice and Speech II for the Actor:Taught IPA consonant sounds for correct pronunciation on stage. Worked with monologues throughout the semester. Taught basic relaxation and breathing techniques.
• Voice and Speech III for the Actor:Taught the Kristin Linklater technique. Worked on relaxed breathing and support. Worked with monologues, both contemporary and classical, and scene work to utilize the techniques.
• Voice and Speech IV for the Actor:Continuation of the Kristin Linklater technique. Focused on forward placement of the voice, removing physical obstacles from speech and responding in the moment.
• Voice and Speech V for the Actor:Advance voice class for B.F.A. students. Teach Kristin Linklater technique with focus on application of the natural voice technique to text work with contemporary and classical texts.
• Voice and Speech VI for the Actor: Dialects: Dialects for the actor. Teach students dialect work using the Blunt text. Use IPA to teach vowel replacement and consonant sounds. Utilize text work to work on melody and rhythm of different dialects. The semester class covers Standard English, Irish, American Southern, and Brooklyn. Also includes a brief section where the whole class works on Zulu for African American Students.
• Directing: Fundamentals of directing class. Teach text interpretation and analysis, staging, composition, givens, casting, and working with actors. Class culminates in students directing scenes from a full-length play, or a 10-minute play.
• Children’s Theatre: Teach both Undergraduate theatre and Graduate in Education students. Course carefully divided into three sections: In Creative Drama class explores exercises for various ages and goals and expected outcomes; Storytelling worked with children’s texts and examined different ways to make storytelling active and interactive; and in Performance students study various Children’s theatre plays and examine why they work. Class has both a storytelling project and a final performance of a children’s theatre piece that the class develops, writes, and performs.
• Vocal Coach: Train and coach individual actors for specific roles in productions including dialect work. Work with full casts giving vocal notes for productions.
• Dialect Coach: Work with individual students, teaching them correct dialects for work in the main stage and studio seasons.
• Senior Seminar: Work with graduating seniors to develop and execute their senior thesis work. Include Stage Management project, Musical Theatre Performance, Stage Combat, Scene-work, Monologues, and Spoken Word Performance.
• Classical Voice and Text for the Actor:Develop and teach workshop focusing on vocal exercises, classical speech, and understanding and communicating Shakespearean and classical text.
• High School Shakespeare Workshop. Teach High School Students finer points of reading Shakespeare, how to work with classical language, and how to interpret a script.

• Project based positions include Assistant to the Director, Special Projects Coordinator, Reading Coordinator, Production Assistant and Stage Manager.
• Worked with directors, Sir Peter Hall, Gordon Davidson, and Robert Egan.
• Act as Liaison between director, staff, and management
• Coordinate scheduling of rehearsal process
• Staff, Artist, Crew communication
• Dramaturgy
• Supervise projects from conception through execution,
• Assisting the coordination of all technical elements of the production, taking notes, handling research tasks, errands, petty cash, problem solving

SHOW QUALITY MANAGER

• Artistic Director for the Entertainment Department.
• Project management and administrative skills as well as creativity.
• Produced a variety of family oriented entertainment.
• Work with live performance, voice-over, and video productions.
• Manage large venue project and rehearsal budgets.
• Manage both project budgets and operational budgets
• Handle scheduling, and operations of productions.
• Manage all talent and creative aspects of all shows and atmosphere performers. Handle all casting for over twenty shows and events.
• Director supervise all rehearsal processes from pre-production through performance.
• Work closely with Technical Manager and technical staff on existing and new shows.
• Producer, co-writer, and director for seven new shows.
• Supervise upwards of 500 performer employees, 1 assistant, and 4 supervisors as direct reports.
• Hire supervisors as well as cast performers.
• Maintain quality and consistency of existing shows as well as develop new show product, from conception, to script writing, to pre-production, rehearsal, and post-production.
• Experienced in everything from stunt shows to song and dance revues to print work.

SHOW SUPERVISOR

• Production Stage Manager and Venue supervisor for a rock and roll revue show. Manage daily operation of the venue.
• Supervise all technical personnel including crew, stage managers, costumers, and special effects technicians.
• Coordinate operational aspects of cast members including overseeing scheduling, costumes supply, and payroll.
• Handle purchasing, monthly supplies orders and operating budgets. Supervised vendors building or repairing show effects.
• Work with Universal’s technical services department on the daily maintenance of the show.
• Supervise annual rehearsals and auditions for show

STAGE MANAGER

• Organize rehearsals
• Coordinate the technical aspects of the production
• Act as liaison between the director and the technical staff
• Supervise the cast and crew, scheduling crew’s workday, and running the technical aspects of each performance, and production organization
• Manage ongoing shows as well as special promotional events.