river hayes
MFA Production Management
they/them
river hayes is a Boston-based Artistic Producer with 15 years of professional producing and storytelling experience. They currently serve as the Associate Production Manager at the Boch Center for the Arts while earning their MFA and a graduate certificate in Arts Leadership from BU Metropolitan College. As a founding member of Theatre eXceptional, a nonprofit performing arts organization dedicated to the work by, for and including disabled artists, the Arezzo Opera Festival in Tuscany, and as the inaugural Artistic Producer for Parallel45 Theatre, an outdoor theatre festival focused on revamping classics and incubating new works, they bring a wealth of expertise in both creative and logistical aspects of theatre and live events.
Website: riverhayes.com
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Meet the Class of 2025
Get to know this year’s cohort of grads from Boston University School of Theatre’s BFA performance, design, production, and management programs, and MFA design, production, and management programs.