It’s been a year since Nickelodeon Board of Directors announced that Sumner Bender was coming aboard as executive director. She joined the team as it was facing a trio of big challenges: It still was far from fully open after more than two years of pandemic. Many doubted the future of the whole industry in […]
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For Charmaine Clowney, chairing The Nick’s board is ‘just the thrill of my life’
October 19, 2022
When Charmaine Clowney was growing up in Columbia, she developed an early love of music. She saw her first performances of opera and jazz. She saw the great Dizzy Gillespie play in person, right here it her hometown. “The arts were a way of escaping, living in the segregated South,” she recalls. But here in […]
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Sumner Bender named executive director of The Nickelodeon
April 28, 2022
Sumner Bender, an educator in Lexington-Richland School District 5 and president of the board of Trustus Theatre, will become the new executive director of The Nickelodeon arthouse theater on June 6. She is the first named permanently to the position since last August. The Columbia native has been the theater teacher at Spring Hill High […]
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The Nickelodeon board has a change of leadership
April 20, 2022
Due to unavoidable but exciting developments, The Nick has just experienced a change in board leadership. Our president since August 2021, Xavier Blake, started a new job in the Albany, NY, area on April 18 as Content & Engagement Manager for WMHT Public Media, the public broadcasting outlet for eastern New York state and western […]