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Scott Allegrucci has extensive experience in entertainment, including roles in films, television shows, and theatrical productions. He has worked as an actor, producer, writer, and director across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Allegrucci also has experience in communications and event production, having organized inauguration events for the governor of Kansas and conferences on issues like child welfare privatization.
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- 1. 1 Scott Allegrucci has communications experience in the private, public, and non-‐ profit sectors, including professional skills developed in the entertainment industry, tourism marketing and development, and political advocacy. As a professional in the entertainment industry, he has acted, produced, and written for film, television and theaters around the country. Feature film roles include: • Appearances in several films by Kevin Willmott, including as Deputy Russ Kane in The Battle for Bunker Hill, Michaelson in The Association, and the pharmacist in The Only Good Indian; • One of the libidinous youngsters (Tony Beeler) at the heart of Bill D’Elia’s feature film The Feud; • Andy Weiss in earthwork, about crop artist Stan Herd; • The voice of the award-‐winning short film Second Place; and • The central character in the short film 76 Spade. TV roles include errant youths in the ABC after-‐school specials All That Glitters and the Emmy-‐award-‐winning Taking a Stand, and an appearance on Chicago Hope. Stage appearances include work at: • The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festivsal in New York City; • The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego; • Frontera Theater in Austin; • The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles; and • The Smokebrush Theater in Colorado. Many stage roles include: • Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire; • Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing; • Charlie Fox in Speed-‐the-‐Plow; • Andrei in Three Sisters; • Chris Keller in All My Sons; • Mr. Snow in Deviant Craft; • Crazy Horse in the Noh/Native American fusion Moon of the Scarlet Plums; • Menelaus in Helen;
- 2. 2 • Minard in Mercadet; and • Multiple characters and puppets in a fantasy/circus adaptation of Alice in Wonderland by Patty Smithsonian Scott toured with Jim Jackson and The Cartoon History of Theater throughout Colorado as a part of The Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration. He provided oration for the first annual Symphony in the Flint Hills with the Paul Winter Consort and the Kansas City Symphony, served as the emcee for the third annual Symphony in the Flint Hills, and voiced several roles for the Colorado Radio Actors Theater. Theatrical directing credits include: • The Birds (an original adaptation from Aristophanes); • Molly Sweeney; and • Yesterday Came Too Soon: The Dorothy Dandridge Story. He served first as Education Director and then as Associate Artistic Director of The Smokebrush Center for Arts and Theater in Colorado Springs. Scott is co-‐author of the short film script Mime and Punishment (top prize -‐ Screenwriting Magazine Expo 5 Script Competition; runner-‐up -‐ First Annual Short Film Group Competition; Finalist -‐ Slamdance Short Film Screenplay Competition). Additional work includes various post-‐production jobs for feature films and network television for Miramax, Fox/Lions Gate, and ABC/Touchstone/Imagine. He was Executive Producer of the independent feature film earthwork. Scott was nominated for the Austin Critics' Table Award for his work in Weldon Rising by Phyllis Nagy and received a B. Iden Payne Award from the Austin Circle of Theaters for his work in Halcyon Days by Stephen Dietz (both for Frontera). He is a past recipient of both a Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award/Grant and a PGF Theater Scholarship, and the Charles Jehlinger Award from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He produced the 2003 and 2007 Kansas inaugural celebrations for former Kansas Governor and United States Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and There’s No Place Like Home, a national conference on the privatization of child welfare programs for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. For the 2003 inaugural events, Scott and his team worked with:
- 3. 3 • The Office of the Governor; • A statewide inaugural committee; • The Governor’s campaign team; • The offices of each statewide elected official; • Legislative administration and leadership; • The Supreme and Appellate courts; • The Kansas Highway Patrol; • The Kansas National Guard; • The City of Topeka; • The Kansas Department of Administration – Facilities Management; • More than a dozen contractors; • A core staff of seven; and • A budget of over $250,000; To produced six regional receptions, a public Family Festival (8-‐10,000 attendance), the official constitutional swearing-‐in of all statewide elected officials, and the Inaugural Gala (2,200 attendees for dinner with an additional 1,500 for ball). For the 2007 inaugural events, he worked with the same offices and agencies, more than twenty-‐five contractors, and oversaw a core staff of ten and a budget of approximately $500,000 to produce three major regional events (1500 -‐ 1800 attendance), Family Festival (5-‐8,000 attendance), official swearing-‐in, and Inaugural Gala (2,000 attendance), as well as a one-‐hour inaugural “big thinkers” documentary and Not By Bread Alone: A Sampling of Kansas Food, Art, and Culture (64pp, full color publication). Scott also served as the Director of the Travel and Tourism Development Division in the Kansas Department of Commerce, where he was responsible for marketing and developing travel and tourism products and experiences with state and agency resources on an annual operating budget of $3.5-‐$4.5 milion, and managing 10-‐12 full-‐time staff and 10-‐15 primary service contracts. Key priorities and accomplishments of the agency team in that time included: • Developing the multi-‐agency Kansas Agritourism initiative; • Specific statutory definition of viable tourism attractions for STAR Bonds; • The Kansas Mega Gigantic Giveaway tourism promotion (new KCK-‐made Chevy Malibu as prize);
- 4. 4 • Initiating comprehensive review of tourism signage and “blue sign” revenue transfer with Kansas Department of Transportation; • Revising Kansas! Magazine website; • Developing Ad Astra retail art/culture center proposal; • Establishing Kansas Getaway Guide relationship with Midwest Living; • Managing the state brand image initiative; • Reworking the Attraction Development Grant program; • Contributing to Office of Rural and Entrepreneurial Development proposal; • Managing the Kansas Film Task Force; • Combining Tourism Industry Association of Kansas annual conference with KDOC tourism conference; • Managing strategic planning for Flint Hills Tourism Initiative, including initial financial support of The Symphony in the Flint Hills; and • Initiating joint marketing and development process with Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. Scott worked as a Senior Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. He was a founding member and Executive Director of the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy (GPACE), and Projects Director for the Climate and Energy Project of The Land Institute. In Kansas, GPACE started out in close alliance with the administration’s policy, facing very long political odds in a specific coal plant controversy. Proponents of the coal plant were on record stating that they would have a permit by March of 2008, and initially they had the legislative votes to win. On the heels of a gubernatorial transition in 2009, GPACE and allies were unexpectedly at odds with a new administration, but facing better odds in terms of national economic and policy trends concerning coal, as the work shifted from a legislative to an administrative to a regulatory arena, and eventually into litigation, where it remains. Over five years GPACE maintained and coordinated contacts with press, agency staff, legislators and other elected officials, lobbyists, legal experts, technical experts, and various environmental advocates, effectively countering pro-‐coal tactics, driving the public discussion about Kansas energy choices, and defining the focus of the coal plant debate. GPACE coordinated grassroots education and outreach and legislative lobbying strategy involving a diverse alliance of partners, including True Blue Women, the League of Women Voters, the Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition of Greater Kansas City, the Kansas Rural Center, the Kansas
- 5. 5 Natural Resource Council, Sierra Club (Kansas chapter), Kansas Farmers Union, The Climate and Energy Project, Building a Sustainable Earth Community of Kansas City, the Kansas Blue Green Alliance (and supportive Union organizations), the American Lung Association-‐Central States, student environmental groups at several colleges and universities, and several congregations around the state. GPACE received funding from organizations including Green Tech Action Fund, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth Action, the Kansas Natural Resource Council, the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, The Kansas Sierra Club, the Peter J. Lewis Family Foundation, and the Rockefeller Family Fund, along with the generous support of hundreds of individual donors and members. GPACE undertook direct lobbying; policy development; grassroots advocacy and organization; public events and presentations; earned media efforts and relationships; paid media campaigns; non-‐traditional and social media projects; email, postal mail, phone, and door-‐to-‐door canvassing operations; and polling and research, along with countless informal actions and discussions. In particular, GPACE efforts related to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) public comment process on the coal plant draft permit were game-‐changing. The prior process that concluded in 2007 with Secretary Bremby’s historic denial of two air permits involved 785 total public comments (pro and con, written and oral). For the second round of permitting, KDHE received over 5,000 total public comments on the draft permit, representing a more than six-‐fold increase in public engagement driven entirely by GPACE-‐led advocacy activities and communication in Kansas. By way of a snapshot, in 2009 at the height of its activity, GPACE maintained a social media network comprised of a website, Twitter account, and a Facebook group focused on relevant renewable energy policy and providing opportunities to get informed and engaged: • gpace.org saw 11,477 unique visitors in 2009, and 17,500 total site visits, from 150 Kansas communities and all 50 states • Nearly 4,500 referrals through a social network including gpace.org, partner blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn • Direct email communication with over 1500 individual members during 2009 • 800 Facebook group members • 1373 Twitter followers
- 6. 6 Additionally, in 2009, GPACE: • Produced and distributed a 17-‐minute film titled In Search of the Renewable Energy Economy, focused on the economic impacts of wind energy development in Nolan County, Texas (as a model for what is possible in western Kansas): o Viewable on YouTube in 3 segments • Conducted statewide polling on energy issues with a bipartisan team of experienced pollsters • Contributed analysis and suggestions for energy questions for two additional statewide polling efforts • Supervised targeted direct live and auto-‐calling efforts prior to a critical legislative vote on pro-‐coal plant/anti-‐regulatory legislation: o 4,849 completed calls o 610 direct call transfers to 7 key legislators • Supervised targeted door-‐to-‐door canvassing focused on renewable energy policy and pending legislation prior to critical veto override attempt: o Targeted 20 key legislative districts in 3 counties (34,140 doors/6,652 contacts) o Door contact included message card, legislative postcard, and live-‐ call option o Resulted in 2,902 postcards sent to legislators and 65 direct calls • Organized the second annual Clean Energy Day at the Kansas State Capitol, bringing 300-‐400 Kansans from around the state to rally and meet with their elected representatives. Participants/partners included a dozen environmental, union, faith, and agricultural organizations. • Organized and/or contributed to multiple earned media stories, published opinion pieces, and letters-‐to-‐the-‐editor. • Engaged with the KU Energy Council 2nd Annual Conference, at which Sunflower Electric and the US Chamber of Commerce had originally been given an entire afternoon for presentation, and at which no renewable energy experts were originally invited to present. GPACE involvement effectively altered the agenda (US Chamber backed out, Sunflower presentation time reduced, several renewable energy experts were added) and public turnout was more than double the previous year. • Spearheaded an effective lobbying effort during the 2009 session of the Kansas Legislature, coordinating strategy and communication focused on 85 key House members, 7 Senators, and senior staff in the Office of the Governor. Ironically, prior to Gov. Parkinson’s stunning turnaround to
- 7. 7 negotiate a secret deal with Sunflower Electric, GPACE led lobbying efforts that saw a dramatic increase in the vote margin to sustain a gubernatorial veto of pro-‐coal/anti-‐regulatory legislation -‐ from a margin of 1 vote to sustain at the start of the session, to 9 votes heading into the veto session. Every major stakeholder in the “coal bill” acknowledged that pro-‐Holcomb forces did not have the votes to overturn a veto, and GPACE was the key leader of those efforts. • Ongoing media relations and activity related to clean energy issues. Key support for Sierra Club/Earthjustice lawsuit against RUS/Sunflower Electric • Provided the earliest and most comprehensive analysis of the Parkinson/Legislature settlement agreement “allowing” one 895mw coal plant to proceed (picked up by multiple media outlets in KS and the region) • Contributed to ACORE Kansas renewable energy study: • Originated regional, true-‐cost electricity fuels comparison by UMKC economists, undertaken by The Climate and Energy Project. • Maintained a network of over 10,000 grassroots volunteers/activists (including website, email list, events, and direct campus and community outreach), including active grasstops community leaders and campus coordinators.