Nancy Quinn

Background

About Nancy Quinn

Nancy Quinn has been plying her communications skills in the field of arts administration for more than 40 years. She received her MBA in Arts Administration from UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1983, and subsequently held managerial and executive positions with the Sequoia String Quartet Foundation, Chamber Music America, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and San Francisco Performances. She founded Quinn Associates in 1988, which, over the course of 25 years, provided an array of arts administration and fundraising services for Bay Area nonprofits, with a particular focus on small and mid-sized performing arts organizations; the firm’s client list included more than a hundred arts entities, including Playwrights Foundation, Robert Moses’ Kin, Women’s Audio Mission, First Voice, Dimensions Dance Theatre, Ensemble for These Times, Afro Solo, Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers, Jess Curtis/GRAVITY, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Smuin Ballet, San Francisco Playhouse, Oakland School of the Arts, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, El Campanil Theatre, New Century Chamber Orchestra, and SFFILM, to name only a few. In 2013, she dissolved her firm, and since then has served as a freelance fundraiser, writer, consultant, and executive coach for a limited roster of Bay Area artists, arts organizations, and community nonprofits, doing business as sole proprietor of Quinn Consulting. Nancy is also a fiction writer and memoirist, whose work has been published in Wild Roof Journal, The Blood Pudding, Two Sisters, East by Northeast, Big Whoopie Deal, The Festival Review, and other literary journals. She is a longtime member of the San Francisco Writers Studio, and in May 2023 completed her MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.