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B.S. September 2005, Arts and Entertainment Management

• Cum Laude
• Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellow
• Solomon Toubin Memorial Scholarship
• Dean’s List

“I have been involved in the arts from my earliest memories. Falling asleep at the symphony, Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera or Indiana University, summer nights at the outdoor musicals or my mother’s impromptu vocal outbursts around the house are some of my most vivid recollections.” Jeffrey Reynolds has had a twenty-five year career in the performing arts, appearing in musicals and operas all over the world, including two Broadway shows and as the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera in Hamburg, Germany. He has received grants from the Santa Fe Opera, George London Institute for Musical Theatre, and the Pittsburgh Opera. With a career in arts production and administration in mind, he returned to New York and Baruch College. In the CUNY BA/BS Program, his focus has been on the business, marketing, and production aspects of the entertainment arts. “I would love to help re-invent the mass delivery of arts in a hipper format to attract a younger age group and I feel this is possible using cable or satellite access. Great music, personalities, interviews, exotic locations, up-to-date close-ups and exposés with a more contemporary flair could re-ignite flagging interest in the arts. I also consider public relations and policy experience a must for the future promotion and funding of the arts. After I graduate I hope work at the National Endowment for the Arts or The Kennedy Center.” Reynolds has continued his singing career while in school and works as an English and Communications tutor at Baruch. He mentor was Prof. Andrew Tomasello, Fine and Performing Arts, Baruch.