Roy Wilbur

Roy A. Wilbur is Senior Marketing Specialist for The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.  He is the former Associate Managing Director for Public Engagement at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, where he oversaw marketing, audience services and sponsorships and, from 2004 through 2007, directed the Philadelphia International Children’s Festival.  In 2006, he directed the International Performing Arts for Youth’s Showcase at the Center.  He has served as Associate Managing Director for The Academy of Vocal Arts, directing the perennial production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and performing the Witch; and as Director of Marketing and Communications for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Wilmington’s Grand Opera House, The Philadelphia Singers and the Philadelphia Drama Guild.  He has also worked with The Pennsylvania Opera Theater, Rosenbach Museum and Library and the Mendelssohn Club.  As a professional opera singer, Roy performed with numerous companies across the U. S., including Michigan Opera Theatre, Florida Grand Opera and Chautauqua Opera.   He has been an adjunct professor for eleven years with Drexel University’s Arts Administration Program.  Recently, Roy performed multiple roles in Jeffrey with Represented Theatre Company, Merlin in Camelot with Plays & Players and both Tito in Lend Me A Tenor and Felix in The Odd Couple with The Road Company at The Grand in Williamstown, New Jersey.