UNT Opera Friends And Neighbors Society is a registered 501C-3 Nonprofit organization

Our Steering Committee:

Neil Durrance, Co-Director

Gwen MacDonald, Co-Director

Royann Cox, Secretary

Lynn Watson, Treasurer

Our Board:

Peggy Capps

Linnie McAdams

Christopher Rodriguez, Liaison for Graduate Students

Madeline Friesen, Liaison for Undergraduate Students

Hayeong Park, Liaison for International Students

Jennifer Lane, Advisory Member

Jonathan Eaton, Advisory Member

What does our Board do?

Our Board functions to facilitate our three main missions: To Support, Promote, and Network on behalf of the UNT Opera Program.

Some of the ways Board Members do that are:

  • planning events

  • managing emails, invitations, and our membership list

  • organizing volunteers to take dinners to the theater during Tech Week

  • marketing

  • social media management

  • liaising with students to identify needs and bringing those to the whole board

  • hosting events

There are jobs for everyone’s interests and strengths! We are currently searching for Board Members who can boost our social media presence and recruit more FANS.

We meet every other week, and we are a social group - we have wine and cheese at every meeting! Building community is very important to us.

Our finances:

We request a small annual donation of $50 from our Board Members. We also hold occasional fund-raisers to generate modest amounts for our organization. We accept donations! While we’re not a fund-raising organization, we do have some small monthly running costs like this website and an email marketing service. Additionally we have frequent small expenses related to direct student aid, when we assist with purchase of stage make-up kits or assistance paying for recording equipment rental for audition recordings, or assistance with audition fees. We also have costs associated with our mission to promote the UNT Opera Program. We print marketing materials, we advertise upcoming operas in local newspapers, and we are building a library of videos of interviews to use in our social media marketing.

If you are interested in making a larger donation to support UNT Opera, we are happy to steer to to the College of Music’s excellent Development Office, who have the expertise to make sure your donation works hard for UNT Opera.