VenueConnect 2019

Lawrence Henley
Director of Alumni Affairs, Parent Relations and Community Initiatives
UNLV College of Fine Arts


Now the Director of Alumni Affairs, Parent Relations and Community Initiatives for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas College of Fine Arts, Larry served as Director of Artistic Programming and Production and Facilities Manager for the UNLV Performing Arts Center for three decades. A Certified Venue Executive, he has presented and coordinated more than 50 Barrick Lecture Series presentations, hundreds of arts events, and has been a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 100 Board since 2004. In 2015, Larry was named UNLV’s President’s Administrative Faculty Member of the Year. He has served on the International Association of Venue Managers Board of Directors, the I.A.V.M. Universities Sector Committee and is the current Chairman of I.A.V.M.’s Performing Arts Sector Committee. Larry also serves on the I.A.V.M. Research Task Force, has written a score of articles for the Utah Shakespeare Festival, gambled with Itzhak Perlman, and feasted on In-N-Out Burger with Joshua Bell.

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