Danielle Karliner Naish and Joe Christopher Join David Richards as Partners at RCI Theatricals

David Richards and his theatrical general management agency RCI Theatricals has revealed that general managers Danielle Karliner Naish and Joe Christopher will now serve alongside him as Partners under the RCI banner. A leading general management office for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and National Tours, RCI also provides ticketing & revenue management, bookkeeping, and finance direction services.

“I’m elated to begin this next chapter of RCI Theatricals with my new partners, Dani and Joe, after more than 25 years building and growing this company as part of the extraordinary theatre community of New York and across the country,” notes David Richards.

The RCI Theatricals team also includes Beverly Edwards (General Manager), Kevin Greene (General Manager), Floyd Sklaver (Director of Finance), Georgina Ratnatunga (Director of Ticketing), Kyle Bonder, Megan Ringeling, Justin Black, Brandon Brooks, Tatiana Chew, Allison Lehman, Alexander Parra, Christian Rene Palomares and Sarah Shutt.

RCI Theatricals current roster includes Broadway shows & Juliet, Hadestown, Harmony, Shucked, Spamalot, and The Heart of Rock & Roll (upcoming); the national tours of Hadestown and Jagged Little Pill; and off-Broadway’s All the Devils Are Here.

David Richards

(Partner) co-founded RCI in 1997. As an active member of The Broadway League, he has served on the Board of Governors of The Broadway League as Secretary/Treasurer, Co-Chair of the League Biennial Conference, and as the Co-Chair of the Labor Committee. David has his undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Economics, and Music from Duke University and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business. Since the formation of RCI, David has served as General Manager over 75 Broadway productions.

DANIELLE KARLINER NAISH 

(Partner) joined the RCI team in 2019.  She has general managed productions including The Heart of Rock & Roll (upcoming), Spamalot, All the Devils Are Here, Shucked, & Juliet, Pictures From Home, Ohio State Murders, The Sound Inside, Chicken & Biscuits, The Great Society, The Minutes and American Buffalo and the 1st National Tour of the Tony Award winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! Prior to joining RCI, Dani was at 321 Theatrical Management working on productions including Heidi Schreck’s What The Constitution Means To Me, Wicked, Spongebob Squarepants, Fun Home, War Paint, Fully Committed and Oh, Hello On Broadway and was a General Manager Off Broadway at DR Theatrical Management. She received her M.F.A. from Columbia University’s Theatre Management & Producing Program and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from The University of Miami. Dani is a member of the Broadway and Off Broadway Leagues.

Joe Christopher

(Partner) originally joined the RCI team in 2015. At RCI, Joe has general managed productions including Spamalot, Shucked, & Juliet, Pictures From Home, Ohio State Murders, M. Butterfly and Significant Other, the 1st national tours of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Roundabout Theatre Company’s Cabaret and the off-Broadway production of Building the Wall. He also served as Associate General Manager for Anastasia, Amelie, Fiddler on the Roof, China Doll, and Dames at Sea. Prior to RCI, Joe served as a General Manager at Troika Entertainment for the 1st national tours of Sister Act, Evita, Joseph…Dreamcoat, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz (also Toronto), as well as Associate General Manager at The Kennedy Center for the pre-Broadway revivals of Ragtime, Follies and Master Class. From 2018-2022, Joe worked at RWS Entertainment Group, initially leading the company’s theatrical ventures division before serving as its Senior Vice President of Production. Joe is a member of The Broadway League and a graduate of Niagara University. 

RCI Theatricals

is a Theatrical General Management Company. Since founding in 1997, it has maintained a powerful presence in the theatre industry, managing projects of all scopes—Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional, and Touring—and leveraging our experience and dynamic industry expertise to develop creative solutions to a range of business challenges. RCI has managed more than 75 Broadway shows, including Spamalot, Harmony, & Juliet, Shucked, American Buffalo, The Minutes, Ohio State Murders, A Christmas Carol, Take Me Out, Hadestown, Jagged Little Pill, Ain’t Too Proud, Chicken & Biscuits, The Inheritance (Tony Award® for Best Play), Oklahoma! (Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical), Pictures From Home, The Great Society, The Sound Inside, Anastasia, American Son, the revival of Torch Song, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, August: Osage County (Tony Award® for Best Play), Fiddler on the Roof, Race, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical), It's Only a Play, Jane Eyre, November, Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, The Glass Menagerie, You Can't Take It With You, Bullets Over Broadway, Blithe Spirit, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Play), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Speed-the-Plow, Little Women, All the Way (Tony Award® for Best Play), and many more. Current projects include Broadway's The Heart of Rock & Roll(upcoming), Harmony, Spamalot, Hadestown (Tony Award® for Best Musical), & Juliet, Shucked, off-Broadway’s All The Devils Are Here, and many more shows in development. 

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