Bridget McDonough has been employed in arts management since graduating from Northwestern University in 1978. In 1980 she

co-founded Light Opera Works with Philip Kraus and others. She holds membership in the Illinois Arts Alliance, is past president of the Rotary Club of Evanston, and served on the boards of the Evanston Convention and Visitors’ Bureau, Evanston Chamber of Commerce, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Around the Coyote, as well as the School of Communication Alumni Board at Northwestern University. She is currently on the board of the North Shore International Network, and the tourism committee of Chicago’s North Shore Convention and Visitors’ Bureau. In 2008, she served as one of the International Judges at the Second Vladimir Kurochkin International Competition of Young Artists of Operetta and Musicals in Yekaterinburg, Russia., and this year was honored by the Evanston Chamber of Commerce with their Public Service / Nonprofit Person of the Year Award.