Board & Staff
Marian A. Godfrey
Senior Director, Culture Initiatives
Marian A. Godfrey is senior director of Culture Initiatives at Pew. These programs support the arts and heritage in our home community of Philadelphia, and take a leadership role in special civic projects that benefit the region and the nation at large. Prior to arriving at Pew in 1989, Ms. Godfrey had an extensive background in nonprofit arts management, handling production, administration, fund raising, and strategic planning for such organizations as Mabou Mines, Dance Theater Workshop, and La Jolla Playhouse. She produced film and video projects, including a feature-length film for Mabou Mines which aired on public television nationwide.
Additionally, she worked as a consultant both for performing arts organizations and for foundation and corporate programs including AT&T: OnStage. She was a contributing writer to Theatre Times from 1982 to 1989, and contributed numerous articles to Grantmakers in the Arts' Reader and other publications.
Since joining Pew, Ms. Godfrey has served on advisory panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, on the Presidential Transition Committee in 1992, and on the boards of Theatre Communications Group, Grantmakers in the Arts and the Maine College of Art. Currently, she chairs the Arts Policy Roundtable of Americans for the Arts and is a member of the board of directors of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Ms. Godfrey is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Yale University School of Drama. In 2003, she received the John Cotton Dana Award for Leadership for contributions to museum education from the American Association of Museums.
