1. Michael Kaiser's leadership enabled the company to pay off the accumulated deficit, which had nearly led to its closure.
19 Facts About Michael Kaiser
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Michael Kaiser joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as executive director in 1991.
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Michael Kaiser faced extreme challenges, stemming from a $1.5 million accumulated deficit.
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Michael Kaiser developed a strategic plan with the company's board and staff, targeting fundraising and marketing as key areas for overhaul.
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In 1995, Michael Kaiser became executive director of American Ballet Theatre.
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Michael Kaiser set about finding the large donations needed to reduce the $5.5 million deficit.
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Michael Kaiser revamped the touring program, reaching out to cities across the United States as well as in Asia and Europe.
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Michael Kaiser created new education programs to nurture both new dancers and new audiences.
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In 1998, Michael Kaiser assumed leadership of the Royal Opera House in London, home of the Royal Opera, London and the Royal Ballet.
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Michael Kaiser's first undertaking was the "Sondheim Celebration", an unprecedented staging of six musicals by Stephen Sondheim, within one season, under one roof: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Company, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along, and Passion.
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Long committed to teaching and education, Michael Kaiser has made the Kennedy Center a university of sorts for arts organizations and arts managers by founding, in 2010, the Kennedy Center Arts Management Institute to provide advanced training for young arts administrators and developing a series of programs to help train others in the field.
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Michael Kaiser has created a "capacity-building" program, that offers mentoring services to the leaders of 33 African American, Latino, Asian American and Native American arts groups from across the United States, and has instituted similar programs for over 250 arts organizations in New York City and 74 in the Washington, DC metro area.
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Michael Kaiser has established a fellows program for arts managers, enabling students and practicing arts managers to study at the Kennedy Center in a practicum that exposes them to the day-to-day work of the center's departments, from marketing and fundraising to programming and operations.
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Michael Kaiser launched Arts In Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative in early February 2009, which provides free arts management consultation to arts organizations across the United States.
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Michael Kaiser is a cultural ambassador for the US State Department, advising performing arts organizations around the world on building institutional strength through marketing, strategic planning, and fundraising.
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Michael Kaiser has created an online educational forum for arts administrators, where professionals and students in the field can share experience, ask and answer questions, and seek employment and board opportunities.
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In June 2009, Michael Kaiser became a weekly blogger for The Huffington Post.
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Michael Kaiser has served as a research economist for Nobel prize-winning economist, Wassily Leontief, and is the author of seven books:.
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Michael Kaiser is married to John Roberts, an economist with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.