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Marcia Pendelton has worked as an arts management professional for over 15 years. Since founding Walk Tall Girl Productions, Inc. in 2000, she has provided communication, producing, and education services for both commercial and nonprofit ventures, with special emphasis placed on the theatre. Her work in audience development and producing has been highlighted in such publications as the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Newsday and Rolling Out Magazine. The Black Public Relations Society of New York honored her groundbreaking work in marketing theater to new audiences in May 2004.

From Broadway, to Off-Broadway, to national tours, to regional theatre, to black regional theatre, to urban theatrical productions, Pendelton's creative audience development and marketing initiatives have introduced thousands of people to the magic of live theatre. She has worked on behalf of award-winning theatre artists including George C. Wolfe, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Regina Taylor, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Jeffrey Wright, and such music moguls and artists as hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, and rapper/actor Mos Def. She has produced entertainment, education and cultural programs for internationally renowned institutions including the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and for public servants Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields and New York State Assemblyman Roger Green. She has lent her sales and marketing skills to the worlds of dance and music by working for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, The Joyce Theatre, and The Funk Brothers (Standing In The Shadows of Motown). Other clients include: Urban Bush Women Dance Company, Lincoln Center, Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Blackbird Productions, HERE Art Center, New Freedom Theatre, The Culture Project, New York Association of Black Journalists and many more.