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Walk Tall Girl Productions (WTGP) is dedicated to making the arts accessible to the widest possible audience with special emphasis placed on the theater.
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About The Founder
Marcia Pendelton has worked as an arts management professional for over 20 years. Since founding Walk Tall Girl Productions, Inc. in 2000, she has provided marketing, group sales, audience development, communications, producing, and education services for both commercial and nonprofit ventures, with special emphasis placed on the theater. Her work in has been highligted by the media including: The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Newsday, The Positive Community Magazine, ABCNews.com, Black Enterprise.com, Centric's Leading Women series, and Rolling Out Magazine. Her groundbreaking work in marketing theater to new audiences has been honored by The Black Public Relations Society of New York and New York's Audelco Awards.
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Photo by D'Ambrose Boyd
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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 Lynn Nottage, Bill T. Jones, Tracey Scott Wilson, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Tyler Perry, 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, Sweet Honey In The Rock and The Funk Brothers (Standing In The Shadows of Motown). Other clients have included: The Vineyard Theatre, Manhattan Theater Club, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, HARLEM STAGE, Urban Bush Women Dance Company, Lincoln Center Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Blackbird Productions, HERE Art Center, New Freedom Theatre, The Culture Project, The Philadelphia Theatre Company, Carnegie Hall, 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 has also shared 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, the Bread and Roses Cultural Project of the Hospital and Home Health Care Workers Union among others.
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, Theater Communications Group, the Harlem Arts Alliance and the Audience Development Committee. She currently resides in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, NY and is an active member of Emmanuel Baptist Church.
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