Bill Reichblum

Bill Reichblum’s career has been at the intersection of arts, business, education, and technology.

He is the founder and CEO of Kadmus Arts Corporation, an arts and technology company that creates online content packages and platforms to connect audiences to arts, culture and entertainment. The company’s first product, KadmusArts.com, is now the web’s leading portal to every dance, music, and theatre festival in the world. The client service, KArtsConnect, helps media and entertainment companies deepen the connection to their current audiences and reach new audiences.

For international festivals and events, Reichblum directed and produced Cinders of Thebes, Strindberg: Reverie, and The Revealed One. Reichblum has also produced Jean Genet: L’Homme en Guerre with the Académie Expérimentale des Théâtres, A Meeting with Jerzy Grotowski: Art as Vehicle, Theatre Shtrih of Bulgaria, Kurbas Theatre of Ukraine, Wlodzimierz Staniewski’s Gardzienice Theatre Association production of Metamorphoses, and is currently helping the Italian based Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards tour their production of  I am America.

Reichblum was a resident director and dramaturge for new works at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, California, artistic director of the Pacific Jewish Theatre in Berkeley, California, and associate artistic director of Theatre for a New Audience in New York. In 1997, Reichblum became one of the youngest chief academic officers in America when, at age 36, he became the Dean of Bennington College. Reichblum and his team successfully solidified the College’s finances and increased the College’s national rankings and reputation through implementation of new approaches to budgeting and recruitment of faculty, and the creation of new programs in residencies for dance, music, and theatre companies, individual artists, and scholars. He was also a Professor of Drama and Dramatic Literature at Bennington. Previously, Reichblum was a faculty member in Directing and Dramaturgy for UCLA’s doctorate, graduate and undergraduate theatre programs.

Reichblum is also the director of the private foundation, Kadmus, Inc., to develop international collaborations for new theatrical work.

Reichblum received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and Masters of Fine Arts degree in Directing from Columbia University. Reichblum wrote the introduction for J.M. Coetzee’s What is Realism, was a field work consultant for ITI-U.S., a member of the Center for International Development’s projects in Hungary and the Netherlands, and chaired the professional review of the drama program at Brandeis University. His blog on culture is regularly featured on KadmusArts.com.