Off-Broadway League Hires Maricha Miles as First General Manager in 58 Year History

The Off-Broadway League has announced the hire of its first General Manager, Ms. Maricha Miles. Ms. Miles is a non-profit management professional with an extensive background in the performing arts in both the U.S. and Australia and is the first full-time position the Off Broadway League has employed since its founding in 1959. She steps into the role on Monday, July 24.

For the last ten years, the League has been managed by several part-time paid positions and many dedicated volunteers who are professionals in the Off-Broadway community. The Off-Broadway League has grown dramatically in the last few years with the growth of the non-for-profit sector, addition of a new collectively bargained agreement with United Scenic Artist, and the sustained excellence of the Lortel Awards. The League's Board of Directors came to a decision it was time to take the League to the next level with the hiring of a full time General Manager to oversee League activities and continue the growth of the organization.

"The Off-Broadway League is excited to take this next step in its growth," says its President Adam Hess. "Maricha is the perfect candidate to harness the goodwill and resources of this important theatrical community."

For the past eight years Maricha Miles has served as the Executive Director of Only Make Believe, a theater company that performs shows with children in hospitals around New York and Washington D.C. Maricha came to New York to work as an Orchestra Manager at The Juilliard School and subsequently worked with Eos Orchestra and the League of American Orchestras. In Australia, Maricha worked with various performing arts organizations including Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts, Brisbane International Film Festival, the Queensland Performing Arts Trust and the Australian Youth Orchestra. Maricha's qualifications include a Master of Arts (Performing Arts Management) from New York University, and a Bachelor of Arts (Drama) from Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

ABOUT THE OFF-BROADWAY LEAGUE
The Off-Broadway League was founded in 1959 to foster theatrical productions produced in Off-Broadway theatres (productions in Manhattan in venues with 100-499 seats), to assist in the voluntary exchange of information among its members, and to serve as a collective voice of its membership in pursuit of these goals. In the recent years the League has grown to represent an average of 150 individual members and theatres and 100 non-for-profit and commercial shows per season.

ABOUT THE LORTEL AWARDS
The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers instituted the Lucille Lortel Awards to recognize excellence in the Off-Broadway arena and to honor Lucille Lortel's devotion to Off-Broadway. Awarded annually since 1986, the Lortel Awards are produced by the League in association with the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Additional support is provided by Theatre Development Fund.