Ellen Kodadek, Executive and Artistic Director, has over 30 years experience in non-profit arts administration, including multi-disciplinary program development & implementation, public relations and marketing, fundraising and managerial oversight.  She has served as Chief Executive Officer of Southern Tier Celebrates in Binghamton, NY, facilitating the merger of two non-profit organizations: First Night Binghamton & the Binghamton Summer Music Festival; expanding those two programs into a year-round multi-disciplinary arts organization including arts-education programs, arts-enrichment for underserved audiences, such as seniors and at-risk youth, and multiple community revitalization initiatives. Kodadek also served as Director of Presentations as well as Director of Public Relations & Marketing for Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, NY. Kodadek’s consulting projects include: as Management Consultant & Co-Artistic Director of 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning, NY; as a Management Consultant, to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Reel to Real “On the Road” Program.  Kodadek is the recipient of 2005 Broome County Arts Council Heart of the Arts Award, 2007 Binghamton Mayor’s first Restore the Pride Award for Community Development.  Kodadek has served on numerous committees; as invited speaker on programming, presenter-artist relationships, festivals and outdoor presenting; and on numerous grants panels, including, as an ongoing Panelist for NYSCA’s Presenting Program.

ekodadek@flushingtownhall.org

    

Cathy Hung, Deputy Director, is a graduate of New York University and holds a MA in Performing Arts Administration. Ms. Hung joined FCCA in 2004 as program manager and was promoted to Deputy Director in Oct 2006. For two years, she has had broad management responsibility for FCCA's programs. A classical trained pianist, Ms. Hung worked for five years at the Taipei Century Symphony Orchestra, the first professional orchestra founded in Taipei, before relocating to the United States. Since moving to New York in 1994, she has been actively involved in both mainstream and community cultural scenes. Her working experience includes major cultural organizations, such as Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York City Ballet; Asian American organizations, such as the Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America; and the alternative record label, Also Productions, Inc. She also provides consulting service to small cultural and community organizations in Queens. She is the author of the popular text book "Performing Arts Administration" published in Taiwan, which has been broadly used in Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong since 2003.

chung@flushingtownhall.org

Betsy Enright, Director of External Affairs, joined the organization in 1985 as Executive Assistant to the Founder and Director, and was promoted to the position of Development Director in 1988. In July, 2004, Ms. Enright was appointed Director of External Affairs, a new FCCA department that merges the Development Department with the newly created Marketing Department. Ms. Enright is a graduate of Marymount College.

benright@flushingtownhall.org

Steven McIntosh, Director of Education, is a graduate of New York University and holds a MA in Educational Theatre for Colleges and Communities.  Prior to FCCA he worked as a Teaching Artist for the award-winning New Victory Theater (AFTA Arts Education Award 2008) teaching K-12 students in all five boroughs.  Specializing in creating theatre with young people, Steven has worked artistically with MCC Theater’s Young Company, NYU’s Shakespeare Youth Ensemble, and the Creative Arts Team’s Youth Theatre along with providing arts enrichment activities to community organizations like the Brooklyn Young Mother’s Collective and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.  Steven has developed and directed a range of after-school programs focusing on arts education, youth leadership, academic achievement, community partnership, and social responsibility.

smcintosh@flushingtownhall.org

Clyde Bullard, Jazz Producer. Producer of Flushing Town Hall's Jazz Live! series since 1998, Mr. Bullard is also a professional musician who has performed in over twenty-five Broadway and off Broadway shows. A principal bassist for the Boys Choir of Harlem for over seventeen years, Mr. Bullard toured nationally and internationally. He has performed with Tony Bennett, Freddie Jackson and Vivian Reed among others. Mr. Bullard has produced numerous large-scale productions both in the United States and abroad. Bullard has served as a panelist for the NYSCA Presenting Program for several years and is currently an alternate panelist.

cbullard@flushingtownhall.org