Liz Huff

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About Liz Huff

As a Development Professional AND Performer, I am passionate about helping people find their voices, esp through music, theater, writing, and comedy. If you'd like to partner on a project, let me know! The Development Professional: Over 15 years of progressively responsible experience as a non-profit visual and performing arts development professional, including multi-channel Annual Fund campaign planning and execution, alumni engagement and stewardship, fundraising (AF, scholarship and some major gifts), and prospect research. Extensive experience with donor stewardship, scholarship programs, and cultivation event planning. Strong interpersonal, presentation and persuasion skills. Creates supportive professional environment; highly adaptive, good at assessing needs and creating positive outcomes. The Performer: Liz Huff does concert work, theater, improv, and collaborative arts projects throughout the Midwest and locations as far-flung as Estonia, Northern Ireland, and Finland. Music and comedy have led Liz to performing on many diverse stages and venues including Severance Hall, internationally renowned jazz venue, Nighttown, and the Del Close Marathon at the Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC. As an educator Liz teaches improv at Baldwin Wallace Community Arts School, leads musical theater/opera masterclasses, storytelling and communication workshops, and coaches voice. She taught numerous Distance Learning classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music for 12+ years, for ages k-12 and senior citizens. An advocate for new work in theater and music, Liz has premiered works by a number of composers, including Ryan Charles Ramer (numerous works), Sam Guarnaccia (Emergent Universe Oratorio with Cleveland Chamber Choir) and Marshall Griffith. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, she studied improv at The Annoyance Theater in Chicago. For more information, please visit lizhuff.net. In addition to her work as a performer, Liz is a writer and educator; her blog can be found at tinyletter.com/LizHuff/