自我介绍

I am semi-retired after a 30+ year career in performing arts presenting and arts administration. I own goingbarefoot, inc., a small boutique arts management agency, representing actor/playwright Mike Wiley, and am currently serving as Executive Producer of a new feature length documentary which premiered in February 2023 - SLOANE: A JAZZ SINGER about jazz singer Carol Sloane. You can learn more by visiting goingbarefoot online. I am a journalism graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, and served three years as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, East Africa. Later in the 70s, I worked in Vermont for the national office of The Experiment in International Living before returning to North Carolina. I opened the jazz supperclub "Stephen's After All" in Chapel Hill, NC in the early 80s, and later was managing director of the historic Carolina Theatre of Durham before incorporating my own arts management business in the 1990s. As an Airbnb host, I was fortunate to attend the Airbnb Open in Paris in 2015, and then again in L.A. in 2016 where I received a Belo Award as one of the three global Host Story winners for the year for the account of the "Airbnb wedding" hosted in my garden in the summer of 2015. Pasttimes include gardening, cooking, film -- and I continue to be wowed by the amazing little city that Durham, NC has become. 'Hope you'll fall in love with it, too... Be in touch with any questions about a potential visit. I do not support the exclusionary divisive actions of the North Carolina legislature or the U.S. Congress. And we never studied 'fake news' in journalism school. A portion of your Airbnb rental goes to support the scholarship program of The Experiment in International Living.