Currently, Brett serves on the Board of Directors of the Memphis Rotary Club and is a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International.
He also served on the advisory boards of Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theatre, Kalapryia Center for Indian Performing Arts, and Giordano Dance Chicago. While in Chicago, he served on the boards of The League of Chicago Theatres and Illinois Presenter’s Network. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENTīatterson is active in numerous civic and trade organizations, including The Broadway League and Independent Presenters Network. In his first 15-year career as a Scenic Designer/Technical Director, he worked at such theatres as The Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota Opera Company, Chattanooga Theatre Centre, Theatre Midland, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Association, Chattanooga Ballet, Minnesota Jazz Dance Company, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Idaho Summer Repertory Theatre, The Nashville Network, The Grand Ole Opry, Beverly Dinner Playhouse, and Tulane Center Stage. While there, he spearheaded the construction of the Detroit Opera House and was integral in presenting The Three Tenors at Tiger Stadium, which was the highest-grossing concert in America in 1999 with sales exceeding $6 million. He also co-founded the ongoing program, Enrich Chicago, that is striving to bring racial equity in arts management to the city’s cultural institutions.īrett spent 10 years (1994-2004) at Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, serving as that company’s Chief Operating Officer. The Auditorium hosted the National Football League (NFL) Draft in 2015, the first time that event had been held outside of NYC in 50 years, and staged the successful celebration of the theatre’s 125th anniversary season in 2014. In that role, he created three successful city-wide festivals (Miles Davis Festival, Billy Strayhorn Festival, and The Music + Movement Festival). Prior to assuming the role of President/CEO of the Orpheum Theatre Group, Batterson spent 11 years as Executive Director of the national historic landmark Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. The Orpheum Theatre Group is proud to have presented the Tennessee premier of the blockbuster musical HAMILTON in 2019.
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While the Orpheum continues to host the Best of Broadway, as well as concerts and comedians, the Halloran Centre launched a new music series in 2016, a theatre series in 2018, and, in 2019, a Memphis songwriters series and symphonic series in partnership with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. In 2018, the Orpheum added Camp SAY Across the USA: Memphis, an arts program for young people who stutter, to its numerous educational offerings. This is the second such camp he has started, as he founded a similar camp, Hands Together, Heart to Art, in Chicago in 2005. In 2017 he introduced Mending Hearts Camp, an arts camp for children who have experienced the death of a parent.
In the community, he founded the Memphis Cultural Coalition, a roundtable of the CEOs of Memphis’ largest cultural institutions. He has overseen the renaming and branding of the organization and led a total renovation of the Orpheum’s historic interior and offices. The Orpheum Theatre Group is a Memphis, Tennessee, non-profit organization whose mission is “to enhance the communities we serve by utilizing the performing arts to entertain, educate and enlighten while preserving the historic Orpheum Theatre and the Halloran Centre for the Performing Arts & Education.” On its own and in partnerships with others, the theatre has been recognized on four occasions with Tony Awards for co-producing Best Musicals, most recently for The Band’s Visit in 2018.īrett Batterson assumed the role of President & CEO of the Orpheum Theatre Group on January 1, 2016.
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