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About Marc & Susan Smith

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Marc P. Smith
Executive Producer, co-founder
Playwright/film writer/producer, Marc co-founded the award-winning Worcester (MA) Foothills Theatre Company in 1974 and served at the helm of this Equity company for 25 years. Marc has had more than a dozen of his plays professionally produced in New York, Los Angeles, Waterford, CT (the O'Neill Theater Center, which he also co-founded), Boston, Lenox, and Worcester, Massachusetts.

Marc served as chief writer of the American Forces Korea Network and then as broadcast specialist for the Public Information Office at Fort Jackson, S.C. Later, in New York City, he was post-production liaison and then film audition liaison for CBS Films, Inc. He has taught courses and/or guest-lectured in film and theatre at Clark University, College of the Holy Cross, Assumption, Bennington, Worcester State and Nichols Colleges.

Marc Smith and Freya von MoltkeSusan L. Smith
Associate Producer, Director of PR and Marketing, co-founder
Co-founder of both Blue Pumpkin Productions (1998 - present) and Worcester Foothills Theatre (1974-1999), Susan has had responsibility for all communications and marketing efforts for both organizations. She has guest-lectured at Assumption College and, for four years, has been an adjunct faculty member of Clark University's COPACE division where she is academic coordinator for interns in the Master's degree programs in Professional Communications and Public Administration. As of Fall, 2006, she created and is teaching a new course, Audience Development, Event Planning, and Promotion.

In the mid-1980s she was special projects coordinator for Mechanics Hall in Worcester where she developed, marketed and implemented a new speakers series, "In Celebrated Company". Over two years, speakers included: N.Y. Gov. Mario Cuomo, Sen. William Proxmire, writers Dith Pran and Nora Ephron, and 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley. She presently offers consulting services in audience development for performing arts organizations.

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