welcome to h-art management


Harold Norris established H-Art Management in July 2002 as a full-service agency for touring performing arts companies in America and abroad. Successful artists and collaborations that H-Art has overseen since the company began include: SITI Company at the Dublin Theatre Festival, Batsheva Dance Company in collaboration with David Eden Productions, Rennie Harris Puremovement, the 50-State 50th-Anniversary tour of the Paul Taylor Dance Company/Taylor 2, the 11-city tour of the St. Petersburg Capella Choir also in collaboration with David Eden Productions, Rubberbandance Group from Canada, Emanuel Gat Dance from Israel, The Civilians’ Gone Missing, Universes’ Slanguage, and Ilkhom Theatre from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, performing Ecstasy With The Pomegranate, White White Black Stork, and Imitations of the Koran.

For ten years, Harold Norris worked with Rena Shagan Associates, pairing major presenters with some of the world’s most accomplished dance and theater troupes. He is a past Vice-President of NAPAMA, the national service organization for North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents, and serves on the Arts Presenters Conference Committee. Before relocating to New York he worked with Stage One, the Louisville Children’s Theater, serving as Tour Coordinator/Company Manager and then instituted the troupe’s immensely successful national touring program. Harold attended Oklahoma State University as a theater/music major.


Originally from Washington, DC, Susan Oetgen began her career as an arts administrator at Washington Performing Arts Society, shortly after completing a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Catholic University in 1999. Since then, she has balanced her work as a composer and performing artist with her work as an administrator, focusing in both cases on contemporary classical music and experimental dance and theater. Susan's diverse experience includes stints as Stage Manager/Project Coordinator for Cynthia Hopkins' Accidental Nostalgia, House Manager at St. Ann's Warehouse, Executive Assistant for Paul Szilard Productions, Inc., and Operations Manager for American Composers Orchestra and Stamford Symphony Orchestra. A participant of the Brooklyn Philharmonic's 2007-2008 Composer Mentorship Program and a 2008 Atlantic Center for the Arts composition resident, Susan is also the founder and front-woman of the indie chamber-pop quartet, Likeness to Lily.