James Rosenberger

Professional Work Summary

1979-present: President and Owner of maxxmedia+events LLC (mmevents) and Audible Therapies (AT).  Beginning as a  full-service media and live event services company, mmevents and owner James D. Rosenberger combined the power of strategic storytelling with new media for corporate-sponsored marketing, training, interactive and live events, involving projects for profit and non-profit clients. Partial client list includes: Cintas, David J. Joseph Company, Fidelity Investment Services, LensCrafters, P&G, Senco, Tytek, The American Classical Hall of Fame and The Taft Museum. In his various roles, James became an experienced producer/director/writer and specializes in ideation for video/audio production, post production and social media.

In his evolution to becoming a storyteller, media creator, writer, VO talent and musician, James began his professional work as a classically trained actor. While doing his graduate work in Canada, he was a featured vocalist for the composer John Cage for his CBC Radio production “Lecture on the Weather”' and went on to appear in the feature film "One Two Three STOP!" for the National Film Board of Canada. Performing in the Canadian Theatre Ensemble's P.E.A.K./Savage God , his ensemble’s work at the Fifth International Festival of the Open Theatre, in Wrocław, Poland resulted in an extended national tour. A current member of SAG/AFTRA, he also has had leading roles at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park, and appeared on TV's “Unsolved Mysteries.”

After founding SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1978, James moved to Cincinnati in 1979, creating the role of Director of Audience and Program Development for The Contemporary Arts Center. His marketing, video, and performance art achievements were recognized in the CAC’s 2014 video “Memory Palace.”  As the Founder of SPACES, he was invited back in 2018 to co-curate the 40th Anniversary exhibit 20/20 Hindsight = 40 Years. Video stills from his “Fugu Feast,” shot on location in Japan were used for the French TV program Philosophie airing in both France and Germany from 2009-2012.  His 1989 program "Flying Pigs, Andrew Leicester and Porkopolis" was featured at The Westin Gallery Summer, 2019 during "Andrew Leicester: Cincinnati Gateway Revisited" celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Flying Pigs Sculpture park.

In 2006, James created “Audible Therapies,” (AT) a therapeutic music and storytelling service for Seniors which now reaches over 10,000 individuals annually in the Tri-state region.  He became a Clinically Certified Therapeutic Musician in March, 2012 and has since partnered with the Alois Alzheimer Center and Creative Aging of Cincinnati to play bedside and/or for one-on-one in private homes, hospice, hospitals and nursing home settings.  James remarks: “I believe this is what I’ve been working towards all these years without knowing or planning for it.  This new work/service draws on all my “polymathic selves!?!”  In addition to his therapeutic music and themed, monthly storytelling programs , he offers the imagery program Every Picture Tells A Story; Snapshots, Memories and Music featuring Karen Gears Siegfried’s, MSW entire collection of guided imagery and interactive scripts which were repurposed by AT and augmented with music for work with all levels of senior communities, targeting dementia and memory units, using nostalgia therapy.  His musical duos PB&J and Beauty & The Beat provide seniors with concerts for Happy Hours and special events, while Duo Música, is a wellness and music program getting participants to "sing, swing and sway the hour away!" This past July, he organized, produced and performed in “Live @ Legendary”, a driveway Benefit Concert for the SEM Food Pantry which raised over $ 1,500. The resulting video of the event continues to raise dollars as a virtual concert video, available for a donation.

Awards, Recognition Education:

ArtsWave’s Regional Artist Relief grant program recipient  2021

“The Bobs Sing!” premiered as a WCET-48 PBS TV special in 2001. The DVD version has sold over 3,500 thousand copies internationally and won the Interactive-Entertainment Award, INTERCOM 2002, Chicago, IL

Videography Award for “Dissonance: The Glenn Branca Band”, Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, 1984;

FAF (ArtsWave) sponsored study and live Cable TV series "Anticipating 1984" and published in "Cultivating The Wasteland" by Kirsten Beck, resulting in two, OAC Individual Fellowships for Multidisciplinary work.

Master of Fine Arts, Theatre & Media, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

 Bachelor of Science, Double Major: Communications & English. Ohio Teaching Certification, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio