Managers/Producers
Victoria Racimo has an extensive career in the entertainment industry as producer, writer, director and actress. She is Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Palomino Entertainment Group, (PEG), a full service performing arts production company.
Victoria is Exec. Producer of the award-winning film “Casi Casi”, which she sold to HBO. This is only the second Spanish language foreign film in HBO’s history that it bought for release on DVD and broadcast. (The other film was HBO’s “Maria Full of Grace”.) PEG is also in development on the film CLEMENTE with Ross Greenburg at HBO about baseball legend Roberto Clemente. Screenplay is co-written by Tony Award winning playwright, Mark Medoff and Victoria Racimo.
CURRENT
• Racimo and Emmy winning producer Phil Goldfarb acquired the rights from writer Budd Schulberg and are developing a new opera based on his classic film ”On the Waterfront.” Composer, David Carlson and librettist, J.D. (Sandy) McClatchy have been set as the creative team.
• Victoria and PEG are director and producer, respectively, of “Tear Jar”, a new Blues musical with original illustrations and music.
Palomino was hired to produce and Victoria was commissioned to write and direct “Journey of Destiny”, a Signature Event in America’s 400th Anniversary at Jamestown, VA. CBS televised the production hosted by Russ Mitchell.
Victoria wrote two animation television specials: “A Toucan Can” starring Jason Alexander and Donna Summer and “Pirate Jack and the Legend of Halloween” starring Alice Cooper. As Producer, she developed and sold to NBC the teleplay “Significant Others” and was Producer/Co-Writer of the original story “Sgt. Reckless” which was put into development at Columbia Pictures as a feature.
As a director, she has helmed productions at regional theatres around the country including the New Jersey Rep, the Yale Cabaret, the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts in Los Angeles, Circle Repertory in New York and the Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu, among others.
Her career as actress includes: starring in John Frankenheimer’s “Prophecy” for Paramount, opposite Charlton Heston in Columbia’s “The Mountain Men”, Disney’s “Ernest Goes to Camp”, two Peabody Award and Humanitas Award winning dramas on television and the acclaimed PBS American Playhouse mini-series, “Roanoke”. Her body of work includes starring roles in 14 films, 3 mini-series and 31 television shows and she was a series regular on CBS in “The Chisolms” and in NBC‘s “Falcon Crest”.
Victoria was a Founding Board Member of Asian Artists and Concerts, Inc. and briefly served as its Acting President. AAC is a non-profit organization devoted to helping young Asian and Asian-American students transition into the professional musical world. Performances included the General Assembly of the UN and Alice Tully Hall. She created and supervised the “Harlem Music Program” for underprivileged and abused children in NYC day care centers. Due to its wide success, L.A. County, CA, recruited Victoria to institute a similar program in East L.A.
Victoria and Palomino have an arrangement with the Williamsburg Regional Theatre presenting plays in old-time radio fashion, on stage with actors, music and live sound effects. Some of the highly successful productions in the last three years include, “War of the Worlds”, “White Christmas”, “Anna in the Tropics”, and “Christmas at the Edgewater”, a one woman play written by Victoria about legendary performer, Gertrude Lawrence.
Victoria attended Columbia University and graduated from the Preparatory School of the Juilliard School of Music majoring in piano. She also studied ballet at Balanchine’s School of American Ballet.
Member: Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, (SSD&C),
Screen Actors’ Guild and Actors’ Equity Assoc.
TanNa has been an Arts Administrator for over 11 years. Her foundation and experience span two essential areas in the performing arts: Financial and Artistic. Her financial areas of focus included working closely with management and Board, insuring fiscal responsibility, overseeing administrative policies, payroll & benefit administration and labor & artists relations. The artistic side has been involved in program & production development, management & direction.
Until recently, she was the General Manager of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ). STNJ is one of the largest and most prominent Shakespeare theatres in the nation, now serving over 100,000 adults and children, annually. As General Manager, she was responsible for the daily operations of the $4.2 million organization.
Prior to this, she was the Associate Director of Administration for City Center of Music & Drama, Inc. (CCMD). CCMD is the entity charged with managing the New York State Theater. CCMD provides a number of services for New York City Opera (NYCO) and New York City Ballet through its Finance, Information Systems, and Subscription departments. As Associate Director, she worked closely with the management of both companies in the areas of Human Resource, Benefit Administration and Payroll.
TanNa began her career at several of NY’s most vital arts institutions: Business Associate at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Business Assistant at Manhattan Theatre Club and seven years as Company Manager for New York City Opera. In 2005, while maintaining her responsibilities of executing NYCO’s 15+ million dollar annual Production Payroll. She created and managed the $2.25 million dollar budget for NYCO’s first international tour to Japan as part of “World Expo 2005”, resulting in a $300K surplus.
During the fall 2006 while still at NYCO, TanNa was hired as Managing Director to help create Asian Artists & Concerts (AAC). AAC was formed as a non-profit organization with the mission of providing performance opportunities and venues to young Asian and Asian-American musicians. It created the AAC Orchestra and showcased opera singers, soloists and pianists. AAC’s first orchestra concert was in the General Assembly of the United Nations in commemoration of Japan’s 50th Anniversary of its membership in the UN, followed by a concert at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. She organized several musical salons at Embassies and corporate functions throughout the city for AAC. Working closely with the Board, she created and oversaw AAC’s $500K operating budget, developed the organizational infrastructure and provided strategies on marketing - all within a six (6) month period.
In running certain day to day operations in the performing arts, her organizational strengths and artistic background have served her well. It has been her pleasure to effect and help realize the goals and needs of the arts institutions of which she has been a part.