Dayton Showcase

Newly appointed as the President & CEO of Victoria Theatre Association, Ty Sutton has more than 20 years of arts administration and venue management experience, including three years at the Butler Arts Center at Butler University in Indiana. Sutton was previously the general manager of the Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center in Midland, Texas, as well as general manager of The Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Colo. He has held several arts administration positions, including Programming Director at the University of Utah and Audience Services Manager at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders is Chief Executive Officer of the internationally acclaimed Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. She became one of fewer than ten African American women in the United States to build a successful broadcasting property ‘Hawes-Saunders Broadcasting Inc.’ from the ground up. In 1991 she created WROU FM radio station in her native Dayton, Ohio. Three years later she purchased WRNB in Dayton.