The New Group Appoints Emily Bookwalter as Director of External Affairs
Tom O’Connor Consulting Group (TOCG) is pleased to announce that Emily Bookwalter (she/her) has been appointed Director of External Affairs by award-winning Off-Broadway company, The New Group, following our extensive national search. This newly-created position unifies Development and Marketing for The New Group with the goal of increasing its profile, brand awareness, and philanthropic support within the New York and national theatre communities.
Emily Bookwalter is a non-profit leader, advocate, and fundraiser who celebrates that art deeply impacts the well-being of a thriving culture and society. Emily comes to The New Group from Roulette Intermedium as the former Director of Development, where she raised millions of dollars to foster adventurous and experimental artistic work across music, dance, and intermedia, and where she also helped found the organization's first reserve fund. She is the former Executive Director of New Amsterdam Presents and Records, is a founding board member and former Director of External Affairs for the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, and spent five years working as Grantmaking and Community Manager at New Music USA, a non-profit advocacy organization committed to supporting the music of our time. She consults for arts nonprofits on a regular basis. In her free time, Emily is a violist praised for her “elegantly rendered” (The New York Times) playing and "masterful interpretation" (I Care if You Listen) of contemporary repertoire, and her own artistic prowess empathetically informs her work both on and offstage.
As stated in a recent company release, “We are so thrilled to welcome Emily Bookwalter to The New Group as its Director of External Affairs. She is a proven fundraising professional and brings an inspiring energy and fresh perspective to the organization as we develop the strategic vision for our future,” said Scott Elliott, Artistic Director and Adam Bernstein, Executive Director.
“I'm thrilled to be joining the ranks of The New Group, whose fearlessness and commitment to groundbreaking work aligns so strongly with everything I have come to know and love in my career thus far. It is a rare privilege to join an organization with such unparalleled artistic vision, and one that so powerfully harnesses the strength of its impressive legacy while laying the groundwork for current and future generations of artists and audiences. Together with my colleagues, I look forward to building authentic new opportunities for this joyous work, and for the people who celebrate it, "said Emily Bookwalter.
“Emily is someone I can only describe as a force of nature, and I know she and the team at The New Group will have a fantastic collaboration,” said Tom O’Connor, President of TOCG. “I look forward to experiencing the future that Adam, Scott, Emily, and the great team at The New Group will forge together, and we’re thrilled to have played a part in bringing Emily on board.”
About The New Group
The New Group, led by founding Artistic Director Scott Elliott and Executive Director Adam Bernstein, is an award-winning, artist-driven Off-Broadway company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater in New York City. While constantly evolving, they strive to maintain an ensemble approach to all their work and an articulated style of emotional immediacy in their acting and productions. In this way, The New Group seeks a theater that is adventurous, stimulating and most importantly “now”, a true forum for the present culture.
For more than 25 years, Scott Elliott has fostered an environment where a community of artists can experiment, take risks, and learn from each other away from the pressures of commercial theater, leading to the production of over 70 powerful, contemporary theater pieces featuring some of today’s most compelling performers. Recent productions include CYRANO adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt with music by The National featuring Peter Dinklage; Donja R. Love’s critically-acclaimed one in two, “Daddy” by Jeremy O. Harris David Rabe’s Good for Otto; Jerry Springer – The Opera; Sweet Charity starring Sutton Foster; Sam Shepard’s Buried Child with Ed Harris and Amy Madigan; The Spoils by Jesse Eisenberg; Rasheeda Speaking, directed by Cynthia Nixon and featuring Tonya Pinkins and Dianne Wiest; David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones with Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman; The Jacksonian with Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Bill Pullman; and Annapurna featuring Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman. The New Group’s productions of The Spoils and Buried Child, both directed by Scott Elliott, played critically-acclaimed sold-out runs on the West End at Trafalgar Studios in London.
In over twenty years, The New Group has received over 100 awards and nominations for excellence. The New Group is a recipient of the 2004 Tony Award for best musical (Avenue Q). The New Group and Scott Elliott were honored with a 2010-2011 Drama Desk Special Award “for presenting contemporary new voices, and for uncompromisingly raw and powerful productions.”
About Tom O’Connor Consulting Group
Tom O’Connor Consulting Group is a New York City-based arts and culture consultancy offering strategic advisory, recruiting, and leadership coaching services to organizations across the US—all with a focus on the teams responsible for revenue generation.
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