Judith E. Daykin
JUDITH E. DAYKIN retired in 2003 from a long career in arts management. In her final position prior to retirement, she took the helm of NY City Center in January, 1992. In 1994, under her leadership, City Center inaugurated its highly acclaimed and Tony Award-winning, Encores! Great American Musicals In Concert series ? a program which presents concert versions of seldom-performed musicals utilizing the orchestrations from each show's original Broadway production. She came to City Center directly from Theatre Projects Consultants, an international theater design and management consulting firm, where she was Principal Consultant. Previously, Ms. Daykin owned and operated her own arts management consulting firm, Daykin Arts Associates. Prior to that she was Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music -- America's oldest performing arts center ? where for 15 years she supervised the operations of five performance spaces and a staff of 165. Before BAM, Ms. Daykin was Executive Director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company ? one of City Center's constituent dance companies ? and sat on the Taylor Board for many years. Before coming to New York in the late 1960's, she worked in musical theater in Cleveland and Palm Beach as a performer, stage manager, press representative and as assistant to the producer at Musicarnival Theaters. During her 30-plus years in New York City, Ms. Daykin's arts management career encompassed all aspects of administration in both the commercial and not-for-profit sectors, including events programming, organizational structure and policy, artist and labor contracts, and facility and long-range planning. She served as President of the League of Historic American Theaters, Chair of the Presenting and Dance Program panels for the New York State Council On the Arts, and as a consultant to the dance program at the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the recipient of Arts Management Magazine's Career Service Award, the Outstanding Service Award from the League of Historic American Theaters, and the Encore Award from the Arts and Business Council. She served on the Board of Directors of both the Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn, and Early Stages, the New York City Theater Program for Children. From 1995-97, she served as the Chair of the Cultural Institutions Group, an association of 34 not-for-profit cultural institutions which operate facilities owned by the City of New York. In 1998, she received the City Center/Leonard Harris Award. Ms. Daykin is a minor scholar of the history of the American Circus, and since retiring escapes to her historic, cigar-maker's cottage in Key West, Florida, where she serves on the Board of the Key West Film Society. Bio as of January, 2007. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) The Evolution of Encores! - January, 2007 - Watch now.