Chad M. Bauman (Director of Communications) is in his second season with Virginia Stage Company (VSC). He currently holds appointments at Old Dominion University and Christopher Newport University as an adjunct professor of theater management.  Mr. Bauman comes to VSC from Los Angeles, where he was working as an Audience Development Specialist for REDCAT in Walt Disney Concert Hall. Prior to that, Mr. Bauman has served in management capacities at the Center for New Theater, LA Stage Alliance, Theatre LA, and the Santa Fe Opera, as well as touring with an all-female site-specific production of King Lear, which opened in Los Angeles and was the opener of the Frictions Festival in Dijon, France. In 2004, he chaired the publicity campaign to restore funding to the  Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. He has done pro-bono work for the California Arts Advocates, the California Arts Council, and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Mr. Bauman currently is the chair of the Communications Committee of the Downtown Norfolk Council and sits on the Marketing Advisory board of Norfolk State University. He has had the privilege of working with Erik Ehn, Suzan-Lori Parks, Don Cheadle, Lily Tomlin, Susan Graham, Janie Geiser, Bread & Puppet Theater, the Builders Association, Robert Goulet, and many others. He was an Ahmanson Scholar at the California Institute of the Arts, where he received his M.F.A. in producing and theater management. In 2001, Mr. Bauman received his B.S.Ed. in theater and speech education summa cum laude from the Honors College of Missouri State University.