Christopher DeWan

Skills

Twelve+ years conceiving, creating, and collaborating on new media.

Experience in:

Web and Interactive Experience

Printer's Devils. Principal. (New York: 2010 - Present)

Proprietor of Printer's Devils, offering digital media strategies to publishers and arts organizations, including ePub, Kindle, social media marketing, iPhone/iPad, and web. Clients include Electric Literature, the Guggenheim Foundation, others.

Digital Pulp. Senior Interactive Producer. (New York: 2008 - 2010)

Senior producer and strategist at leading interactive agency. Responsible for information architecture, user experience, interactive strategy, technical writing, and project management. Clients include State Street Global Markets, ShoreBank, Emerson College, Poets & Writers, others.

SnapDragon Consultants. Social Media Consultant. (New York: 2008 - Present)

Occasional consulting to help organizations conceptualize and utilize social media technologies to better achieve their goals.

Art21, Inc. New Media Consultant. (New York: 2008)

Developing new media strategies for Emmy- and Peabody-winning TV series Art21, to increase knowledge of contemporary art, ignite discussion, and inspire creative thinking. Extensive use of social networking and online video.

Interactive Factory. Web Producer. (Boston: 2005 - 2007)

Producer with industry-leading interactive agency, specializing in world-class data-driven websites for publishers (Oxford University Press, O'Reilly), higher ed (MIT, Columbia, Harvard), and mission-based organizations (the Ford Foundation, the Carr Foundation, the World Bank).

Theatre Communications Group. Web Director. (New York: 2002 - 2005)

Director of TCG's web department and web editor of American Theater magazine, maintaining the website for the national organization for American theatre, known for conferences, publications and grantmaking programs. The website includes online periodicals, a bookstore, event registration, and various research tools and applications.

Walt Disney Company. Producer. (Los Angeles: 1999 - 2000)

Developed and maintained 22 sites under Disney.com and GO.com, including projects for Disney Publishing, Disney Animation, and Disney Brand Management.

Art and Teaching Experience

The Urban Sherpa. Creator / Writer. (New York: 2003 - Present)

Creator of the ongoing online journal The Urban Sherpa, and author of numerous essays and stories on media, culture, romance, and contemporary life.

School of Visual Arts. Guest Lecturer. (New York: 2010)

Lectures on marketing with new media, for the SVA Graphic Design & Advertising Department.

3 Blind Elephants. Founder / Editor. (New York: 2009)

Editor of 3 Blind Elephants, a new media literary journal specializing in new short fiction, in web and ebook formats. Also, Kindle and iPhone consulting for Electric Literature.

Edge of the World Theater Festival. Founding Director. (Los Angeles: 1999 - 2002)

Founding director and board member of EdgeFest, Los Angeles' only theatre fringe festival, producing over two hundred shows and special events across fifty venues. Co-founder and moderator of Big Cheap Theatre, a loose organization of L.A.'s small theatres.

Theatre of NOTE. Art Board. (Los Angeles: 1999 - 2002)

Co-artistic/managing director of Hollywood's Theatre of NOTE from 1999-2002. Producer, director, resident dramaturg. Author of several plays, including Clyt at Home (nominated "Best Play" in Los Angeles for 2001) and The Man Who Looked for the World in a Fortune Cookie (and Found It).

Pasadena City College. English Faculty. (Los Angeles: 1999 - 2002)

English faculty, teaching critical thinking and writing. Also taught at Mount San Antonio College, CA.

Freelance Writer and Editor.

Including fiction, poetry, features, reviews, online content, technical writing, and proofing and editing. Published work includes "11", "Fucking Hillary Clinton," "An Introduction to Art," others. Author of two screenplays. Samples available on request.