Patricia R. Klausner
Managing Director, Shotgun Productions & Founder, Global Arts Initiative

Ms. Klausner has produced, written and assistant directed theater since 1990. Her theatrical experience includes: Producer, Stick Fly and The Scottsboro Boys on Broadway, Managing Director of Shotgun Productions since 1995, General Manager of The Donald Byrd Dance Foundation, Assistant Director of Beyond Measure (Kampo Cultural Center, NYC), The Boys Next Door (Theater 22, NYC) and A Girls' Guide to Chaos (Innerspace Theater, NYC), and conceived The Tides of Intolerance (The Asia Society, NYC). Business experience includes Director of Marketing, PR and Special Events for Steps on Broadway, editor of a weekly financial trade publication, and consulting for various cable television companies and arts businesses. She currently sits on the Board of Directors and is a past Vice President of Cable Audit Associates, Inc. Ms. Klausner has a Ph.D. in sociology and has taught women's studies, race relations, and criminology at the University of Delaware and Montclair State College. She held a seat on the University of Delaware's President's Commission on the Status of Women and was co-Chair of the Delaware Chapter of Sociologists for Women in Society, and was nominated to Who's Who of American Women. She has presented and published academic articles on women's roles in society, and has written plays, screenplays and short stories with similar themes. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, Theater Resources Unlimited Mentorship Program, and is a graduate of CTI.