Enter Stage Left Hires Marketing Manager

Enter Stage Left Theater has hired Michael Geary of Milford as Marketing Manager using a grant from the Foundation for MetroWest.

Geary is a 2010 graduate of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams.

Geary’s hiring was made possible by a capacity-building grant from the Foundation for MetroWest which allowed ESL to create the marketing job.

"This has been a fantastic experience for me," Geary said.

“Having a job in the art field directly out of college has been an extreme privilege and an even better learning experience," he said.

Despite his youth, Geary has an accomplished career in the arts including as a graphic artist, sculptor, actor, costume designer, set designer and director.

Since his graduation from MCLA, he has worked as a theatrical director at Enter Stage Left, Steps Off Broadway of Bellingham and Marlboro High School. 

While still at school, Geary won two National Association for Campus Activities awards in graphic design for MCLA.

Enter Stage Left, which offers more programming year-round for a wider variety of age groups than any other community theater in MetroWest, considers Geary’s skills a perfect fit for the creative designs necessary to promote its programs.

The theater applied for the grant as a way to fund a marketing position and continue its growth.

In 2006, the board of directors for Enter Stage Left Theater made the decision to increase its offerings from two or three shows per year and a few workshops to a full-time community theater with year-round classes and more productions. 

Since that time, under the leadership of Executive Director Kelly Grill and co-founder Mary Scarlata-Rowe the theater company has grown to produce 10 to 12 shows and offer more than twenty-five educational programs per year. 

Located in shared space with the Cultural Arts Alliance at 98 Hayden Rowe St. since 2010, plans are in place to renovate a barn on the site into into a multi-use arts facility, the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, with future plans for building a dedicated theater behind the barn. 

“For many organizations important functions such as marketing are often sacrificed to focus resources on the day-to-day necessary to survive,” said Judith Salerno executive director of Foundation for MetroWest.  

Salerno said the foundation was happy to award the grant to support ESL’s efforts to grow.

 “This grant from the Foundation for MetroWest made it possible for not only Michael to obtain his ‘dream job’ but for an arts organization to get the marketing support it needs from a talented employee who has a passion for his work," Grill said.

Geary has promoted the theater through the Internet, newsletters, local advertising and poster promotions, and has implemented new marketing strategies.

For more information visit Enter Stage Left or call 508-435-2114.