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about

Eric is an experienced arts, culture, and media strategist and teacher with extensive field work in fast-paced, demanding environments working closely with senior executives, boards of trustees, and multi-disciplinary teams.

His consulting work has been seen throughout the cultural sector including service as Interim Managing Director at Long Wharf Theatre and The Williamstown Theatre Festival, conducting strategic and operating plans for The Brown Arts Institute and Newport Classical, and providing expert guidance to several media and entertainment companies including Netflix and Paramount. As a team member of AEA Consulting he helped to lead feasibility studies for The National Black Theatre, Atlanta’s Civic Theater, and The Rhode Island School of Design, and provided operational plans to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, the University of Arizona Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Prior to his consulting work, Eric was Manager of Strategy & Business Development for Disney Theatrical Group, advising the organization on its commercial live entertainment businesses worldwide. Eric also served as Senior Advisor at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where he provided internal consulting and facilitated special projects for the President and executive team of the world’s largest performing arts center. Earlier in his career, Eric held a number of technical production and operations positions with Blue Man Group, the Broadway tour of Annie, and Cirque du Soleil, the latter of which included three new shows in Asia, Europe, and North America.

He is adjunct faculty at Brown University, Columbia University Teachers College, and the University of Rhode Island, the author of multiple business case studies in arts management, and is a member of the ROI Community of Global Innovators.

Eric was born and raised in New York and now lives in Providence, RI where his wife, Kate Liberman, is Executive Director of Trinity Repertory Company.  

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Eric specializes in strategic planning, business planning, financial modeling, and organizational design and development. He has supported organizations in their work creating and implementing new programing, planning for an uncertain future, ensuring organizational cultures are more accessible and equitable, and building financial capacity for growth. He is always looking for new ways to support leaders and their organizations in project-based work or ongoing advisory, as well as to participate in broader field-building, experimentation, and learning.

current engagements

Long Wharf Theatre

Interim Managing Director

Newport Classical

Strategic Planning

ShowTown Theatricals

Market Research

prior engagements

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Financial Modeling*

Brown Arts Institute

Organizational Planning

Cirque du Soleil

Technical Operations

Disney Theatrical Group

Strategy & Business Development

Lincoln Center

Senior Advisor

Museum of Modern Art

Organizational Planning*

National Black Theatre

Business Planning*

Netflix

Operational Planning

Preservation Society of Newport County

Strategic Planning

Propublica

Strategic Planning*

Rhode Island School of Design

Organizational Planning*

SoMad

Business Planning*

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

Business Planning*

University of Arizona Museum of Art

Business Planning*

Williamstown Theatre Festival

Int. Managing Director, Operations & Advancement

teaching engagements

partners

*Indicates a project of AEA Consulting

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