Monday, January 12, 2015
"I had a sense early on that I didn’t necessarily just want to do music," said Anna Marie Gewirtz, who earned an MBA from Rutgers Business School in 2006. "I knew there was something else I wanted to do that would have a bigger impact on the community." As vice president of development and strategic partnerships at the 1,850-seat State Theatre in downtown New Brunswick, Gewirtz is in a role now to have that impact.
Anna Marie Gewirtz would never be described as someone who had stars in her eyes.
By the time she was a teen-ager, she was a serious musician, performing on piano and singing. She also studied the French horn as part of an intense pre-college program at Julliard, but an internship during college with the National Alliance for Excellence gave her something else to consider besides music: a possible career in arts management.