Graduated in 2018 with a major in Performance. Principal instrument: voice, with a minor in Musical Theater.
Position: Associate Producer at Bright AV, an AV productions company that handles all media and technology for large events, conventions, and the like. Grace produces some smaller events herself, but also works as a content manager, “”I’m in charge of handling all PowerPoint and videos that come through. I’ll also help design stuff, and clean stuff up. I’ll make sure we’re putting it together to create a seamless event.”
Overview: While at Berklee Grace edited Berklee City Music videos and directed a show. After graduation, she moved home to New Jersey and taught theater to children, while commuting regularly into NYC to audition. In the second half of 2019 Grade did a musical theater program in China thanks to a Berklee connection who was heading that up. Then she got back, and was working at Starbucks when the pandemic hit. With the future uncertain, Grace felt she needed a new direction.
Grace got a job as a fine dining server at a flyfishing lodge in Montana for the summer of 2021, and she realized she loved the west and didn’t want to go back. Once flyfishing season was over, Grace and a work friend moved to Denver, Colorado, where they worked at a Covid-19 testing site for some months. Then in early 2022 her friend was going back up to Montana but Grace really wanted to stay in Denver, so she started applying to many jobs, particularly those involving marketing or production. She found her current company on LinkedIn. They hired her as an event coordinator, then promoted her a year later.
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You can see Grace’s LinkedIn profile here.
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Choice Quotes: “I love the variety in my day-to-day. I like the balance of a standard 9-5, then being thrown into high octane decision-making moments. It’s not unlike my theater background. But I also like the slow time when I get to create. I also like being a desision maker and leader. I get to make sure everyone is happy. It’s really rewarding to bring these shows to life.”
“I was at Berklee for performance, but a big theme I saw was a push for independence and self-actualization. If you want to sing–you got to do it on your own. You have to be your own marketing, social media, editor, bring a band together. You gotta do your homework. I think it made me very versatile and into a quick learner.”
“I’m a swiss-army knife employee, jumping around a lot of different roles. I do a lot of graphic design work, building mock-ups and renders of what we’ll build. I do some video editing. I’m also our marketing lead and run our LinkedIn and the BrightAV website.”
“Just keep the momentum. Even if it doesn’t feel 100% the right thing, just keep moving forward with the opportunities that come your way. The China job and the Montana jobs I never would’ve planned for myself. They were scary and I wasn’t sure I wanted to do them, but they were among the most rewarding experiences of my life.”
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