Luke Crowe
Vice President, Casting Editor
- Location
- Greater New York City Area
- Industry
- Writing and Editing
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Luke Crowe's Overview
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- Vice President at Backstage
- Past
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- National Casting Editor at Prometheus Global Media
- National Casting Editor at e5 Global Media
- National Casting Editor at Nielsen Business Media
- SEO & New Media Consultant, Casting Director, Production Assistant at Atlantic Television
- Writer-Editor-Digital Development at VNU Business Media
- Creative Consultant at Robofilms, Inc.
- Teacher at Northwestern University
- Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, Equipment Supervisor at Florida State University
- Education
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- Florida State University
- Recommendations
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48 people have recommended Luke
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Luke Crowe's Summary
Editor, manager, writer, and multimedia producer/consultant interested in developing projects that have potential for exponential growth via innovative approaches to content creation and information-delivery refinements; specifically aiming toward positive social and market impacts and the integration of data across multiple platforms. Especially interested in work related to film, literature, and the creative arts, including the entertainment and publishing industries, and the connection of these industries to the digital future.
Specialties
Writing, editing, casting, film-making, people management, branding and identity, partnership building, competitive analysis, market analysis, search-engine optimization, website creation, etc.
Luke Crowe's Experience
Vice President
Backstage
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry
May 2000 – Present (13 years 1 month) Greater New York City Area
National Casting Editor, manager, and business development for Back Stage magazine & BackStage.com.
National Casting Editor
Prometheus Global Media
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry
January 2011 – October 2011 (10 months)
Casting editor for the Back Stage media network, including a weekly print-edition newspaper/magazine, BackStage.com, Blog Stage, various iPhone apps, social-network outlets, etc.
National Casting Editor
e5 Global Media
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry
January 2010 – December 2010 (1 year)
Editor, manager, and business development for Back Stage magazine & BackStage.com.
National Casting Editor
Nielsen Business Media
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VNU; Market Research industry
January 2007 – December 2009 (3 years)
Editor/Manager of the National Casting Department at Back Stage, which includes teams in LA and NYC as well as freelance casting reporters across the U.S.
"Back Stage: The Actor's Resource" has served the entertainment industry for over 45 years. Delivery platforms include weekly print editions in NY and CA, as well as the popular website BackStage.com.
SEO & New Media Consultant, Casting Director, Production Assistant
Atlantic Television
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry
August 2003 – October 2009 (6 years 3 months)
Worked on various productions, on a freelance basis, for various television and film companies (including Atlantic TV). This primarily involved corporate-video work and British TV factuals.
Skills/training in this area include sound-recording (DAT, Nagra, etc.), sound mixing/design (ProTools, etc.), and basic digital-editing (Avid and Final Cut). Also experienced with documentary work and student films.
Writer-Editor-Digital Development
VNU Business Media
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Publishing industry
May 2000 – December 2007 (7 years 8 months) Greater New York City Area
Worked for the trade magazine Back Stage at VNU in it's entertainment-industry publishing group, which included The Hollywood Reporter, AdWeek, MediaWeek, Billboard, Ross Reports, and Film Journal.
The job included aspects of web development; database management; people management; daily online publishing; weekly newspaper publishing; marketing; business expansion; partnership negotiation; writing; editing; and more.
Position requires extensive knowledge of the entertainment industry, the performing-arts unions (SAG, Equity, AFTRA, etc.), and the online casting/job-seeker marketplace and all related technology and information resources available to actors, performers, and casting directors.
Highly experienced with Quark, Word, Excel, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Microsoft Visual Basic (including advanced Word Macro creation/programming), and various customized database systems and photo-editing programs. Also knowledgeable in regards to multimedia editing (sound, video), various blogging platforms, HTML, SEO, etc. Some knowledge of C++, XML, and other programming languages/platforms.
Creative Consultant
Robofilms, Inc.
June 1998 – July 2001 (3 years 2 months)
Helped create, co-found, design, implement, and market one of the earliest Flash-based online-video-sharing websites in the world. Basically, we invented YouTube before YouTube. Except that at the time almost no one had high-speed Internet and a lot of people didn't even have the Flash plug-in installed on their browsers -- so the world just wasn't ready for a high-bandwidth Flash-based streaming-video site. And then we ran out of money and the site folded, while the real YouTube later sold for $1.65 billion. Such is life!
Teacher
Northwestern University
Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry
June 2000 – August 2000 (3 months)
Taught film, video, and animation classes at a Northwestern University summer Film School program.
Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, Equipment Supervisor
Florida State University
Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry
August 1996 – August 1999 (3 years 1 month)
Worked as a teaching assistant/teacher for writer-producer Andy "Poison Ivy" Ruben and Claudia "Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect" Johnson's undergrad thesis screenwriting workshops; managed the film school's motion-picture and digital-video equipment facilities; worked in the film library; and worked as a research assistant on the screenwriting textbook "Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect" (www.amazon.com/Crafting-Short-Screenplays-That-Connect/dp/0240803787)
Luke Crowe's Skills & Expertise
- Editing
- Writing
- Casting
- SEO
- People Management
- Market Analysis
- Film Production
- Publishing
- Film
- Competitive Analysis
- Partnership Building
- Stage
- Television
- Entertainment
- Acting
- Final Cut Pro
- Social Media
- Creative Writing
- Video
- Screenwriting
- Blogging
- Copywriting
- Social Media Marketing
- Social Networking
- Television Production
- Public Relations
- Advertising
- Event Planning
- Theatre
- Commercials
- Photography
- Video Production
- Event Management
- Journalism
- Research
- Promotions
- Customer Relations
- Multimedia
- Magazines
- Email Marketing
- Spam
Luke Crowe's Education
Florida State University
Film and Recording Arts, Filmmaking, Film Editing, Screenwriting, Creative Writing, Sound Design
1995 – 2000
Studied for three years under filmmaker Andy Ruben, writer Claudia Johnson, and Academy Award-winning sound-designer/mixer Richard Portman.
Luke Crowe's Additional Information
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Writing, Editing, Films, Filmmaking, Comic Books, Sci-Fi, Screenwriting, Reading, Casting, Online Technology
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Helped lead Back Stage Magazine and BackStage.com to three FOLIO awards in 2011 (best b2b website; single issue; and illustration); a 2009 FOLIO award for best website; a 2007 Webby Award nomination; a 2007 FOLIO Silver Eddie Award for Best Full Issue; a 2006 FOLIO Silver Eddie Award for Best B2B Publication Online (tied with Variety); a 2006 American Business Media Neal Award nomination for Best Single Issue of a Newspaper; and a 2006 Nielsen Business Media "President's Award for Winning Together."
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