About Walk Tall Girl Productions

Walk Tall Girl Productions (WTGP) is dedicated to the growth and development of the arts through communications, group sales, planning, presenting, and producing cultural and artistic programs, and making the arts accessible to wide racially and culturally diverse audiences.

From Broadway, to Off-Broadway, to national tours, to regional theatre, to black regional theatre, to urban theatrical productions, Pendelton's creative audience development and marketing initiatives have introduced thousands of people to the magic of live theatre. She has worked on behalf of award-winning theatre artists including George C. Wolfe, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Regina Taylor, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Jeffrey Wright, and such music moguls and artists as hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, and rapper/actor Mos Def. She has produced entertainment, education and cultural programs for internationally renowned institutions including the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and for public servants Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields and New York State Assemblyman Roger Green. She has lent her sales and marketing skills to the worlds of dance and music by working for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, The Joyce Theatre, and The Funk Brothers (Standing In The Shadows of Motown). Other clients include: The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, HARLEMSTAGE/Aaron Davis Hall, Inc., Urban Bush Women Dance Company, Lincoln Center Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Blackbird Productions, HERE Art Center, New Freedom Theatre, The Culture Project, New York Association of Black Journalists and many more.

Pendelton's work as an independent producer includes the Annual Fort Greene, Brooklyn Juneteenth Festival, "A Conversation with bell hooks and Kevin Powell: Black Men and Masculinity," and My Soul To Keep, a performance and dialogue series that focuses on art and spirituality. In addition to her work as a marketer and producer, Marcia shares her knowledge and experience with aspiring arts management professionals by teaching Marketing the Arts at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Several years ago, Marcia became a licensed group sales agent and established WTG Group Sales. That client base includes the National Association of Minorities In Communications, New York University, Jewish Community Relations Council, MTV Networks, Project Green Hope, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and the Bread and Roses Cultural Project of the Hospital and Home Health Care Workers Union.

Pendelton earned a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia) and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Management from the University of Maryland at College Park. She is a member of the Black Theatre Network and serves on the organization's board of directors. She also serves on the board of directors of Theater Resources Unlimited and New Federal Theater. She is affiliated with The Harlem Arts Alliance, The Cooperative Culture Collective, and Audelco. She currently resides in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, NY and is an active member of Emmanuel Baptist Church.