Director Executive

LYALL BUSH

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Editor, published writer

- newspapers, magazines, journals, online

Proven leader

Strategic planning, visioning, management

Proven talent for budgeting, working with boards

Public speaking

Strong organizational skills

Work Experience

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 2008-present

Northwest Film Forum

Head of organization, overseeing overall vision, program vitality and evaluation,

annual budget, fundraising. Includes public speaking and strategic planning.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 2006-2008

Richard Hugo House

Led all aspects of the organization, including strategic planning,

program vitality, evaluating programs, setting the annual budget,

fundraising, public speaking, facility maintenance.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR 2004-2005

Richard Hugo House

Responsible for the excellence and evaluation of all programs, including large

annual events, quarterly writing classes, classes for youth, public events,

writers-in-residence.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR 1995-2003

Humanities Washington

Directed all programs in film, video, including a web magazine, PORT

- five film festivals

- oral history, video documentary workshops

- Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities 1998-2002

8-month college course for people unable to afford college

PUBLIC APPEARANCES, SERVICE

Host, Moderator of Hugo Literary Series

Public speaker

Dozens of panels moderated

Vice-President, Board of Trustees, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle

Advisory Board for Seattle International Film Festival s Fly Filmmaker program.

Guest, White House Humanities Medal ceremony for Earl Shorris

Graduation speaker: Clemente Course in the Humanities, Port Townsend

PUBLICATIONS

Seattle Times, Moviemaker magazine, Amazon.com

Freelance contributor, editor at large 1994-2000.

Reviews, features on filmmakers and film culture

Iowa Review, Film Comment, Film.Com, Willamette Week

Contributor to Studies in Short Fiction, Canadian Review of Literature

Selected Articles and Reviews

Kenneth Branagh (Interview). MovieMaker. March 1997.

Moore Power: Julianne Moore Profile. MovieMaker. October 1997.

Killing Brando: The New Crime Spree Movies Go on Brain Detail. Film C

The Window the Girls Move Past Continually: Thoughts on Photography.

The Iowa Review, Summer 2003.

Ground of Thought: Notes on Style in Some Recent Essays on American

Culture. The Iowa Review, Fall 2002.

The Man Who Knew Too Much. Guy Davenport s The Death of Picasso.

forthcoming, Books in Canada

Irvine Welsh, The Acid House. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer 1997.

EDUCATION

PH.D. ABD, ENGLISH LITERATURE

Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)

MASTERS, ENGLISH LITERATURE

Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)

Published three articles; Spencer Eddy Award (1987, 1988); 10+

conferences

BACHELORS, ENGLISH LITERATURE

Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)

Graduated with High Honors

Selected Academic Awards & Honors

Marion Johnson Fellowship, Rutgers Graduate School,

Spencer Eddy Prize, English Department, Rutgers.

Best published essay (judged competition)

MacGuigan Essay Prize & Loyola Medal, Department of English, Concordia

University, 1984.

Best essay (annual department competition).

Compton-Lamb Scholarship, Concordia University.

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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