Laura Colby founded Elsie Management in 1995 for the sole purpose of representing her contemporary dance friends and peers at the annual Arts Presenters conference – APAP. Today, Elsie Management promotes the careers of national and international performing arts companies on stages and via performance opportunities across the globe. We are dedicated to promoting exceptional, award-winning performing artists and companies with singular visions that scope the traditional and experimental gamut of the performing arts. Genres represented include numerous forms of dance, contemporary theater, world music, family programming, and outdoor spectacle. Offering a combination of management and development services, along with artist representation, Elsie Management consists of Director Laura Colby, Artist Representative, Anna Amadei, and Contracts Manager, Katie Diamond. Elsie currently represents twenty-one companies, artists, and projects. With its office located in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, we are members of the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA), the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Dance/USA, Western Arts Alliance (WAA), International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), and the International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY).
