User:Culturevore/Gary P. Steuer

Gary P. Steuer is the President and CEO of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation in Denver, CO. He previously served for five years as the Chief Cultural Officer for the City of Philadelphia, directing the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy. He was appointed to this position in October, 2008, by Mayor Michael A. Nutter. The previous Office of Arts & Culture had been closed by the prior Mayor, John Street. Before assuming this position, Steuer was Vice President of Private Sector Affairs at Americans for the Arts, as well as Executive Director of the Arts & Business Council of Americans for the Arts. In 2005 Steuer led the merger of the Arts & Business Council Inc., for which he had served as CEO since 1996, with Americans for the Arts, creating the largest advocate for private sector support for the arts in America. In 2008 he also led the additional merger into Americans for the Arts of Business Committee for the Arts.

Earlier positions in his career included serving as Executive Director of National Actors Theatre, Tony Randall's theatre company on Broadway, Director of the Capital Funding Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Managing Director of the Vineyard Theatre, and Director of Programs for the Alliance of Resident Theatres/NY. He began his career as an aide to the late Congressman Theodore S. Weiss, from 1976-1979. As a commercial theatre producer he produced the Off Broadway productions of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill" and "Total Eclipse". He also oversaw the commercial transfer from the Vineyard Theatre of "Goblin Market."

He attended the State University of New York at Purchase, and graduated with a BA from New York University. He attended the Masters in Arts Administration program at New York University, as well as the Stern School of Business. He has lectured and written extensively about cultural policy and arts management issues. He currently writes a blog at http://milehighculture.blogspot.com, and also contributes to the Huffington Post.