“Donna Walker-Kuhne is one of our field’s most treasured colleagues. Donna is a brilliant marketer whose innovative ideas and writings on audience and community engagement have had a lasting impact on the arts throughout the world. We are grateful and honored that Donna chaired the steering committee for our recent virtual Creating Change symposium, which attracted more than 500 arts managers, artists and students to learn, reflect and heal. Donna’s networks, creativity, exceptional leadership, and natural ability to teach and engage a wide range of individuals resulted in a statewide convening that established a foundation for New Jersey’s arts sector to be a more equitable, inclusive, anti-racist and just sector.”
John McEwen
Executive Director
New Jersey Theatre Alliance
“To a person, participants expressed their excitement about the possibilities that working with these methods and goals presented to them personally as well as professionally. They immediately recognized the opportunities in front of them and the possibilities for crafting meaningful performing arts outreach and programming. Interestingly, there was little worry about whether the work would develop larger audiences – everyone saw it as important work in its own right and I can’t think of higher praise for Ms. Walker-Kuhne’s philosophy and methods.”
Regards,
Robert Boyer
Executive Director
Tennessee Presenters Corporation
“On behalf of my team, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for yesterday’s inspiring workshop with Donna. The work Donna has devoted herself to is completely aligned with ours and it’s incredibly inspiring to hear from someone who’s had success with similar challenges/ opportunities. I’ve taken her advice to heart and Ronnie will be taking everything he learned back to our communications team.
“We’re looking forward to working in unison with some of the other east end arts organizations – thank you for curating such a fantastic group and especially for offering this opportunity to our tenants. I’m going to follow up with Donna directly for her list of recommended readings and some other things. Looking forward to continuing to work together.”
Seema Jethalal
Managing Director, Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre
“The session with Donna was so helpful; thank you for organizing it!”
Ananya Ohri, Executive Director, Regent Park Film Festival
“And thanks for a great meeting last week. It was really valuable and I am so grateful you brought me and TDT to the table!”
Andrea Vagianos, Managing Director, Toronto Dance Theatre
“To a person, participants expressed their excitement about the possibilities that working with these methods and goals presented to them personally as well as professionally. They immediately recognized the opportunities in front of them and the possibilities for crafting meaningful performing arts outreach and programming. Interestingly, there was little worry about whether the work would develop larger audiences – everyone saw it as important work in its own right and I can’t think of higher praise for Ms. Walker-Kuhne’s philosophy and methods.”
Robert Boyer, Executive Director, Tennessee Presenters Corporation
Current Clients
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- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- Becoming Othello
- Black Orchestral Network
- Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce Harlem Week
- Hawaii Symphony Orchestra
- Healing of the Nations Juneteenth
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center
- New York Public Library
- Pittsburgh Cultural Council
- Santa Fe Opera
- Theater for a New Audience
- The Black Seed
- The Guthrie Theater
- Westchester Arts
Previous Clients
Broadway
- Aladdin
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- A Trip to Bountiful
- Ann
- August Wilson’s Gems of the Ocean
- August Wilson’s Radio Golf
- Baby Its You
- Bring in Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk
- Caroline or Change
- Dance/USA
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess the Broadway Musical
- Hairspray
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Master Voices
- Off Broadway
- Once On This Island
- Ragtime the Musical
- South Arts
- STICKFLY
- Time Stands Still
- The Country Girl
- The Lion King
- Thurgood
Off Broadway
- 59 East 59th Street Theater
- Actors Theater Workshop
- Atlantic Theater Company
- Cherry Lane
- Dream Girls at the Apollo
- Hip Hop High -The Musical
- Intar
- I Sing for Freedom
- Lady Day the Musical
- Little Rock – An American Play With Music
- Midnight Cry
- New Federal Theatre
- Seattle Theater Group
- SEED
- Signature Theater August Wilson Series
- Sistas The Musical
- Smokey Joe’s Cafe
- The Billie Holiday Theatre
- The Devil Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith
- The Flea Theater
- The Lark Play Development
- The Movement Theater Company
- The New Black Fest
- The Public Theatre
- York Theater Company
- Winterkill
Dance
- Ballet Hispanico
- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
- Chez Bushwick
- Creative Otis – Otis Sallid
- Dallas Black Dance
- Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Dance USA
- Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
- Gabrielle Lasner Dance Company
- Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company
- New Dance Alliance
- Sampradaya Dance Creations
Performing Arts
- 3 Mo’ Divas
- Apollo Theater
- Appell Center for the Performing Arts
- August Wilson
- Boston Black Theater Collective
- Boston Center for the Arts
- Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Berklee College of Music- City Music Program
- Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
- Casita Maria Educational Center
- Dan Zanes and Friends
- Lehman Center for the Performing Arts
- Mindbuilders, Inc.
- New York City Opera
- Performing Arts Music of the Baroque
- Opera North, Inc
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival
- Restoration Art
- Tennessee Women’s Theater Project
- The Mile Long Opera
- Three Mo’ Tenors
- Urban Stages
Film
- Been Rich All My Life
- Nights in Rodante
Literary/Museum/Youth
- Karen Chilton
- Kenilworth Historic Museum
- Louis Armstrong House Museum
- Ottawa Art Gallery
- President’s Commission on Arts and Humanities : National Arts and Humanities
Industry
- Arts Councils – numerous
- Brooklyn Arts Council
- Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island
- Gospel Uptown
- Hilton Head Arts and Culture EDIA Coalition
- National Arts Marketing Project
- Fordham United Methodist Church
- Queens Council on the Arts
- New York State Council on the Arts
- National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
- The Authors Guild
- WNYC Radio, Jerome Greenspace
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council