​Lisa Lacroce Patterson (Skraban-Deardorff Syndrome Foundation founding president) has worked in performing arts management for over thirty-five years. A 1989 graduate of New York University’s Performing Arts Administration program, Lisa has served both the non-profit and commercial sectors. In New York City, she worked in various capacities for the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Circle in the Square Theater, and Theatre for a New Audience.  

Lisa then spent several years doing general management work for Broadway shows, including such productions as The Who’s Tommy, and revivals of Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (all with Dodger Productions), as well as several British imports with Stuart Thompson Productions. In Pennsylvania, she was a fundraiser for The Wilma Theater and the Bucks County Playhouse. Lisa taught Marketing the Arts at Westminster Choir College (Rider University) and is a regular guest lecturer for Rutgers University’s theatre department.

She has worked as a freelance marketing and fundraising consultant for American Repertory Ballet, Dance/NJ and Crossroads Theatre. Lisa was the Director of Individual Giving at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ for over ten years and most recently concluded a two-year tenure at Theatre Communications Group in NYC. She is an arts journalist whose writing has been published in American Theatre magazine and Pointe magazine. She served on the advisory board of her undergraduate alma mater’s arts center, Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College in Easton, PA and currently serves on the Board of Circuit Network in San Francisco and as an advisor to the Joseph Lacroce Foundation based in South Jersey.  

In addition to her passion for the arts, Lisa is a Francophile and speaks French fluently.  She lives in Princeton, NJ and has two awesome adult children, the younger of whom, Audrey, was diagnosed with Skraban-Deardorff syndrome in 2021 at the age of sixteen. Audrey is thriving as a residential student at the Camphill School in Phoenixville, PA, working on the grounds of Beaver Farm and in the greenhouses of Foxfield Flowers. Audrey loves people, and is a dance and musical theatre fan just like her mom. #StageDoorAudrey