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Miriam M. Sauls
7824 Harbor Dr.
Raleigh, NC 27615 USA
Home phone: 919-847-8471 Cell phone:
919-302-5454
Fax 919-684-8906, Work: 919-660-3346
email: miriam@miriamsauls.com or
mmsauls@duke.edu
website: www.miriamsauls.com
Summary of Qualifications
Experienced in developing communications, marketing and publicity strategies.
Writer and/or editor of feature articles, communication plans, sales and marketing
materials, scripts, speeches, organizational and individual profiles, press
communications, websites, brochure copy, journals, white papers, software
manuals, and annual reports for clients such as universities, government
agencies, nonprofit agencies, media production companies, museums, software
developers, hardware vendors, and national, state and local magazines.
Documentary filmmaker. Workshop organizer and instructor. Trip leader for
international cultural trips.
Employment History
Duke University
Department of Theater Studies, Communications Director and Producer, 2004 –
present
Plans and develops
communications and marketing strategies and campaigns for all productions of
the Department of Theater Studies and Theater Previews as well as on-going
promotion, on- and off-campus, of the faculty and activities of the Department
of Theater Studies. Marketing campaigns include use of social media, print advertising,
direct mail, web marketing, press communications, promotional events, and
related educational events. Writes, edits and publishes Theater News (now an
e-mail newsletter). Coordinates design and publication of all other materials,
managing outside designers and vendors when contracted. Manages Facebook and
Twitter accounts. Manages and contributes video and written materials to
departmental blog. Provides written, video and other multimedia content for
department website and maintains site. Produces video documentaries for
department. Manages photo archive collections. Maintains communications with
alumni. Writes departmental grants for external funding. Conducts audience and market research to develop
marketing strategies for professional productions and evaluates effectiveness
of marketing plans. Prepares analyses and reports. Develops annual budget
recommendations for marketing campaigns, then monitors and verifies expenses. Serves
as producer for all departmental productions. Coordinates and manages travel
arrangements and receptions for visiting artists, lecturers and dignitaries.
Prepares budget for all productions and prepares and implements contracts for
all outside artists involved in productions. Prepares the schedule for all
theater activities in the department (ten to twenty events annually) and
manages the calendar for theater spaces under the direction of theater studies.
Serves as on-campus liaison to Duke University arts
administrators and Duke University communicators.
Freelance
Writer/Editor, 2000 – present
Writes and/or
edits feature articles, profiles, documentary scripts, web copy, or any other
materials for internal or external use by Triangle clients such as Arts North
Carolina, Our State Magazine, Progress Energy, Duke Office of Public Affairs, UNC Alumni
Office, N.C. Arts Council, N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, African American
Dance Ensemble, Hearts with Haiti, Society for the Arts in Healthcare, and many
others.
Workshop Director, Moveable Feast Retreats, ongoing
Leader and instructor for The Feast of Your Life workshops. Participants take courses in memoir writing,
painting and cooking, using personal food memories and traditions from their
own lives and then learn to cook in the local food traditions of the workshop
location, taught by a gourmet chef. Workshops move each year. Next workshops:
summer 2011, Basel and Aarau, Switzerland. Upcoming locations may include North
Carolina, Haiti, France and Oaxaca, Mexico.
N.C. Arts Council, Raleigh, NC, Communications Director, 1997 - 2000
Developed and wrote all internal and external communications materials for state agency,
including communication plans, speeches, journals, annual reports, press
materials and scripts for both the agency and statewide constituents. Developed
written materials for agency's original website. Taught marketing writing to
statewide constituents and interfaced with co-marketing agencies such as NC
Travel and Tourism.
Graphic Detail, Inc., Raleigh, NC, Director of PR/Marketing, 1989 – 1997
Developed marketing and sales materials for hardware VAR and software-development
company. Produced publicity materials and presented seminars and directed public relations activities.
Education
Certificate in Documentary Studies, Duke University
M.A. English, University of Florida
B.A. English, UNC - Chapel Hill
Board and Volunteer Activities
Board Member, Gregg Museum at NCSU, 2008 – present
Documentary filmmaker for fundraising efforts for several non-profits, 2003 - present
Board Member, Hearts with Haiti, 2001 – 2008
Trip Leader, Cultural trips to Kenya, Haiti, Vietnam, Russia, Northern Ireland, 2000 - present
Godparent/Mentor, St. Joseph's Home for Boys, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2004-present
Board Member, Ten Thousand Villages, 2002-2004
Chairman, Kids Helping Kids Art Auction, 1996-2000
Member and President of Board, Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill, 1994-1998
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