TMTP founder and
director Bill Rudman
is an award-winning
arts educator and
broadcaster, and a
recognized authority
on musical theater and
classic American song.
Board of Trustees
Kathy Coleman
Robert Conrad
Edward Donnelly
Lainie Hadden
Janet Kramer
Raphael Omerza
Kristy Ostrica
Danielle Paskowski
Alec Pendleton
Janice Robinson
Bill Rudman
John Schubert
Steve Schultz
Dean Slejko
Linda Striefsky
Martha Towns
Dan Treadwell
Sam Weingart
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Bill Rudman, Director
BILL RUDMAN is an educator, a broadcaster, a producer and the founder of The Musical Theater Project. As TMTP’s Director, he has produced more than 30 concerts and cabarets that celebrate and share musical theater as a uniquely American art form. His radio programs, “Footlight Parade” and “On the Aisle,” are heard across the country on public radio stations, Public Radio Exchange (prx.org) and Sirius XM Satellite Radio. In 1983, he and New York author Ken Bloom co-founded Harbinger Records, a label that has won critical praise for albums devoted to the American musical and the Great American Songbook. In 2000 he became the first recipient of the Robert Bergman Award for his work in arts education and community outreach.
Heather Meeker, Managing Director
HEATHER MEEKER has 15 years of experience as an administrator for arts, cultural and education nonprofits. She is the former Director of the Hiram Fund at Hiram College and Director of Development for Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio. In addition, she has served as the Director of Alumni Relations at Hiram and as a Development Officer at Inventure Place/The National Inventors Hall of Fame. She teaches courses on theater and nonprofit management at the college level.





