Teri Ball
Executive Director

Executive Director Teri Ball oversees the administrative elements of Speaking of Stories, including marketing, fundraising, and day-to-day office operations.

Teri’s career has spanned practically every area of theatre -- except those where you have to appear on stage. Through the years this has included everything from set and costume construction, to electrics, to box office management, to makeup design.  Her work as a professional stage manager took her to a wide variety of theatres in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, working on everything from musicals to Shakespearean dramas -- and her personal favorite, new plays, including the New Works Festival at the Mark Taper Forum. With a concentration in stage management and eventually production management, the move to the more administrative side of the arts was a natural fit. 

Prior to joining Speaking of Stories in January 2000 Teri served as Executive Director for the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance and Marketing Director for the Ensemble Theatre in Santa Barbara and as the Development Director for the California Shakespeare Festival in Berkeley, California. 

As a management consultant Teri has worked with a variety of organizations in California, Pennsylvania and Arizona including the California Symphony, PACE Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh Renaissance & Baroque Festival, Young Artists Ensemble, Legal Community Against Violence, Maricopa County Probation Department, National Curriculum and Training Institute and the Non-Profit Management Center at the University of San Francisco. Her consulting projects have included strategic planning, development of business plans, development and implementation of marketing and fundraising campaigns and database design for both fundraising and ticket sales. 

Teri holds a Master of Arts Management degree in Not-for-Profit Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon University, where she spent a wonderful year working with the students in the Drama School as the Theatre Manager for the Studio Theatre. 

Teri is on the Advisory Board for the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance and is a past Vice President of the Board of the Santa Barbara Performing Arts League. Teri is a member of Actor’s Equity, the union of professional actors and stage managers.

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