Mara Manus

Mara Manus

"Ms. Manus has been Executive Director of the Public Theater in Manhattan since 2002. Before joining the Public Theater, Ms. Manus served as a leading economic development Program Officer at the Ford Foundation; as President of Los Angeles-based Chrysalis, a job development nonprofit; and as Senior VP of Production at TransPacific Films and MCA/Universal Pictures in Hollywood. Ms. Manus has been profiled in the New York Times, Newsday, Los Angeles Times; LA Weekly, Downtown News, and People Magazine. She completed an Executive Education program on Nonprofit Management at Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Stanford University."

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