Pollstar & VenuesNow Announce 2021 Women of Live Honorees

Pollstar and VenuesNow today announced The 2021 Women of Live honorees spotlighting excellence, leadership and accomplishment across the live industry. This is the first year the two platforms have combined their lists providing the most comprehensive look at leadership, excellence and accomplishment across live ecosystem.

“In a year with virtually no live sports and entertainment in the traditional sense, women played a massive role in how this industry adapted and overcame unprecedented challenges,” said Ray Waddell, President of Media & Conferences for Oak View Group, VenuesNow and Pollstar’s parent company. “In combining Pollstar’s Women Of Live with VenuesNow’s legacy Women Of Influence honor, both media platforms are able to fully recognize the broad scope of influence these amazing women are playing in leadership positions across the landscape of our industry. One thing that has not changed is the difficulty in keeping the list to a manageable level as, more than ever, women are leading the way for a new era in sports and live entertainment as barriers to achievement and elevation for women either fall or are ignored.”

Pollstar and VenueNow’s 2021 Women of Live Cover Features illustrate the dynamic range of this year’s honorees. Rosalyn Durant, SVP of Walt Disney World Operations, is featured on the cover of VenuesNow. She oversees ESPN Wide World of Sports where, with no template whatsoever, successfully navigated the unchartered waters of creating a “bubble” to host the NBA playoffs and finals as well as Major League Soccer finals.

Judi Marmel, co-founder and president of talent at Levity Live, is featured on the cover of Pollstar. She guides the careers of some of the world’s most successful comedians, including Whitney Cummings, Sebastian Maniscalco, Taylor Tomlinson, Loni Love and Bert Kreischer and early last year with her clients helped pioneer early drive-in performances.

On Thursday, March 25 at 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT, Pollstar and VenuesNow will host an expanded Women Of Live Digital Session featuring a fireside conversation with Women of Live cover honoree Judi Marmel of talent at Levity Live, in conversation with comedian, television host, actress and author, Loni Love.  That conversation will immediately be followed at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT by a power-packed Women of Live Roundtable moderated by 2020’s Women Of Live cover honoree Ali Harnell, President of Live Nation Women. She’ll lead a conversation with six highly accomplished executives from different sectors of the live industry ecosystem, including: WME’s Co-Head of Music Lucy Dickins; Fitz & The Tantrums and Diversify The Stage’s Noelle Scaggs; Primary Wave Partner (and Melissa Etheridge’s manager), Deb Klein; SVP of Spectra Joyce Leveston; Madison Square Garden’s President of Development and Construction Jayne McGivern; and Senior Associate and Architect at Gensler, Demetra Thornton.  To view the Women of Live Fireside Chat as well as the Women of Live Roundtable, participants, register here.

Pollstar & VenuesNow Women Of Live 2021