Reporter Volume 25, No.11 November 11, 1993

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
Kerry Grant, dean of the UB Faculty of Arts and Letters, has announced
the appointment of four members of the management staff of the new
$50-million UB Fine Arts Center. 
	They are Connie Campanaro marketing director; Sandra J.
Fazekas, events coordinator; Gerard Kegler, managing technical
director, and Mark Komdat, business manager. 
	Embracing more than 250,000 square feet of space, the Fine
Arts Center will serve as a production and presentation site for UB's
fine arts departments and as a venue for regional and national
theater, dance, art and media arts productions, exhibitions,
conferences and other events. 
The center's public performance spaces, which will open officially in
1994, include a proscenium theater with seating for 1,800, a 400-seat
drama theater, two art galleries, a 200-seat public screening room and
an atrium with a reception capacity of 2,000 (standing) or 600
(seated).
Connie Campanaro will manage the regional marketing and promotion of
concerts, theater and dance productions, film screenings and
exhibitions presented in the center. A communications graduate of UB,
she is the former president and general manager of B-Sharp Promotions,
Inc., a company known for its regional promotion of music and
non-music events, sites and concerts. At B-Sharp, Campanaro was
responsible for directing advertising programs, media buying, public
relations, marketing, events planning, hands-on graphic design and
copywriting and staff supervision for hundreds of popular performance
events. 
She has worked with major presentation houses throughout WNY,
including Shea's Buffalo Center, Kleinhans Music Hall, Impaxx Concert
Theatre, Melody Fair, Rockwell Hall Center for the Performing Arts and
the Tralfamadore Jazz Institute. She also has handled regional
promotion and marketing for major performance artists and music
groups.
Sandra J. Fazekas, a magna cum laude graduate of the UB School of
Architecture and Planning, is a long-time member of the UB
professional staff, most recently serving as assistant to Robert J.
Wagner, UB senior vice president for university services. In her
position as events coordinator, she will be the primary liaison
between the center staff and sponsors of all events, both on and off
campus, and the local arts council and other groups.
She will work with the program committee and marketing director to
ensure the effective design and implementation of events scheduled at
the center. In addition, she has responsibility for the development
and maintenance of an events calendar for all facilities operated by
the Faculty of Arts and Letters, including the Katharine Cornell
Theater, the Pfeifer Theater, Fine Arts Center theaters and galleries
and the concert facilities in Baird and Slee halls 
She will organize tours of the center, compile informational
literature, recruit a volunteer force and work to improve patron
accessibility to events, particularly with regard to signage, parking,
building and event locations.
As business manager, Mark Komdat will be responsible for day-to-day
supervision of business operations, the financial operation of all
center accounts and for office financial systems and control
operations. He also will supervise the box office and, with the events
coordinator, help match available space, personnel and equipment to
user need.
A UB staff member since 1984, Komdat had served since 1990 as the
manager of facilities, operations, personnel, services and programs
for the UB Student Union and for its associated not-for-profit
auxiliary enterprises. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in
business from UB. 
As managing technical director, Gerard Kegler will be responsible for
implementing operational policies for the Fine Arts Center and the
Pfeifer and Cornell Theaters.
He also will supervise the center's assistant facilities director and
house manager, as well as the operating staff of the Pfeifer and
Cornell Theaters; oversee the maintenance and installation of security
systems for the Fine Arts Center, and help develop the center's
security plan. He will have responsibilities in the area of building
upkeep and for maintenance of the plant's mechanical equipment, and
will oversee facility rehabilitation and remodeling.
Kegler holds a bachelor's degree in theater and arts management and a
master's degree in humanities with a concentration in theater and
music technology, both from UB. He has worked in the UB Department of
Theater and Dance since 1985 as associate technical director and
director of performance facilities.
	The UB Fine Arts Center houses the departments of Media Study,
Art, and Theater and Dance. Instructional facilities include two
50-seat screening rooms, two black-box theaters, two large dance
studios, a television production studio, sound stage and recording
studios, video synthesis and post-production rooms, mixing and editing
rooms and a digital imaging/audio lab for advanced research in film
and video technology.
	 Also housed here are a metal casting foundry; photography and
computer-design labs; printmaking studios; skylighted drawing and
painting studios; lithography and etching studios; sculpture studios;
costume and set construction shops; dressing rooms; prop, wardrobe,
scene and paint shops; theater audio and electric shops; rooms for
scenery and set storage; machine and assembly shops, and a finishing
shop.