Dawn Frisby Byers

She began her career in the cable television industry, holding marketing positions with local cable operators and two national networks: HBO and Bravo. Most of her career was spent in New York City with positions in sponsorship marketing for PBS, advertising account management for two Broadway shows, licensing negotiations for Sesame Workshop’s entertainment properties, and eventually serving as Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater.

Dawn returned to her native Philadelphia in 2008 to assume the Executive Director position at the local Grammy chapter, and then went on to lead all marketing efforts for the Kimmel Center’s inaugural Philadelphia Festival of the Arts (PIFA) in 2011. She has lent her expertise as a business development consultant to the Mural Arts Program, and recently served as the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.