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Amy Rowland

Amy Rowland is a not-for-profit professional with broad experience in program funding, sponsorship marketing and project management in the arts and media - including Paper Mill Playhouse and Sesame Workshop. She is an accomplished writer, editor and team leader.

Amy graduated from Brown University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a bachelor's in Modern Literature and Society. Her MBA from the University of Chicago had a focus on marketing and finance. Amy began her career at CBS News and was the Midwest Bureau's first Business Manager.

Amy's career is committed to mission-driven organizations that engage, inform and entertain. Early on, she helped start up the National Programming unit of WTTW, a major-market public television station. In 1989, she joined the new Development department at Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop). As Assistant Vice President, Amy helped put together the financial base for CTW programming and collaborated in shaping projects across the organization - TV production, publishing, school services, interactive technology, outreach, and research. Amy was on the team that secured $20M for the premiere of Ghostwriter, the multimedia literacy project. She secured funding for the premiere of Cro, an animated series on ABC-TV, and programming extensions of Sesame Street, Ghostwriter, 3-2-1 Contact, and Square One TV, as well as participating in the strategy phase of a kids' cable service (launched as Noggin with Nickelodeon). Upon moving to Puerto Rico in 1992, Amy opened a home office - a novel approach at the time - and continued her work with CTW. She also helped secure National Science Foundation funding for Congo Gorilla Forest - the multi-acre rainforest "immersion" exhibit at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo.

Following a wonderful expat experience in Vienna, Amy and her family returned to New Jersey. As a consultant at WNYC Radio, Amy managed funding for music/culture projects and new initiatives. As Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations at Paper Mill Playhouse since 2005, Amy builds the institutional income stream for this not-for-profit professional theater - nationally known for original productions of American Musical Theatre. She has crafted the positioning and funding proposals to help secure Paper Mill's first-ever season sponsor, seed funding for an Endowment, new partnerships, and additional federal funding. She is growing the public/private partnership of support for every aspect of the organization's work, including general operations, mainstage productions, education outreach, access services, technology upgrades, capacity building, and audience development projects.

Amy is an involved, multi-tasking mother of three teen daughters. Joined by her husband Ed and daughters, she participates in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walks as a cancer survivor. Amy has played piano since she was about eight years old.