Welcome to the Showtime Events team Stephanie!

Please welcome Stephanie Morehouse to the Showtime Events Michigan team!

Stephanie is a 23 yr old student at Central Michigan University.  She is majoring in the Department of Recreation, Parks, & Leisure Services Administration, with Event Management and Marketing as her minors.

Stephanie grew up in a small farming community, south of Lansing.  This community has a few major events each year that she worked at as a teenager and in high school.  The times spent working these events sparked her interest in being an event planner herself!

After graduating high school in 2007, Stephanie went to Lansing Community College to obtain an Associates Degree in Liberal Arts and then moved onto Central.  While there, Stephanie has had a multitude of opportunities to plan, coordinate, and execute many different types of events.  While at Central, Stephanie joined the Meeting Professionals International association, both the student group and Michigan Chapter.  She is currently an active member in both and serves on an annual fundraising committee for the Michigan Chapter.

Stephanie’s favorite part of being an event planner is the entire process - from in initial meetings to the event - of seeing a nearly bare event space transformed into something unique, whimsical, or even magical.

Stephanie hopes to gain additional experience by working with Showtime Events and have an opportunity to see what it means not only to be an event planner but also a supplier. Also by working with Showtime Events she will be able to improve her planning, coordinating, and executing skill set.

When she’s not planning spectacular events with Showtime Events, Stephanie enjoys reading mystery novels, watching comedy movies, and spending quality time with family and friends.  She loves traveling to new places, explore cities, try exotic foods, and meet new people.  Stephanie also loves to bake sweets, which is perfect since she has the sweet tooth to go with it

Welcome again Stephanie to the Showtime Events team!

Showtime Events and Cobblestone Hall are excited to welcome Courtney Thompson as their newest intern. She is 22 years old and a senior at North Carolina State University majoring in Communications, with a concentration in Media. Courtney grew up in Raleigh, NC but moved to Charlotte, NC right before she began high school. She has always been an NC State fan so she knew she would end back up in Raleigh eventually!

 Courtney has been interested in event planning for years and has always considered pursuing a career in the field after graduation in December 2011. She recently interned in New York City this summer at La Pomme NYC which is a well known event space in the Chelsea area of the city. While there Courtney was able to work directly with the staff at the venue planning birthday parties, corporate events, fundraisers, and more. But while in the “big city” she realized that she did not want to live anywhere but North Carolina and returned home when her internship ended.

She hopes to continue to gain hands on experience while working with Showtime Events, especially in wedding planning and full event management. Over the next few months Courtney will be assisting with event production and have a chance to experience all aspects of the pitching, selling, planning, and execution process from start to finish.

Away from work Courtney loves food, hanging out with friends, shopping, fashion, traveling, and spending time with her dog Lucy. Some of Courtney’s favorite TV shows include Gossip Girl, The Bachelor, Pretty Little Liars, and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She is also an active alumnus of her sorority at NC State, Zeta Tau Alpha.

We are excited to have Courtney on the Showtime Events and Cobblestone Hall team for the next few months. Look for her at events!

Showtime Events' World Famous Dueling Pianos

Showtime Events’ Dueling Piano Show is the ultimate in interactive entertainment! Imagine this…two baby grand pianos face to face…surrounded by guest tables…when suddenly, two of the most amazing, energetic, talented and wildly imaginative, interactive entertainers appear performing classic songs from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and today’s hits.

This one-of-a-kind show enables your guests to participate in sing-a-longs, “act out” certain numbers on stage with the dueling piano performers, recommend favorite songs, as well as participate, as a group, in some of the many wild antics our dueling piano performers are known for!

Dueling Piano Show Performers

Our dueling piano players travel all across the country bringing interactive performances for all types of social and corporate events. The Dueling Piano Show includes 2-4 entertainers, 2 pianos, and all necessary sound and lighting equipment! Everything you need can be planned, scheduled, and booked through Showtime Events.

The World Famous Dueling Piano show is perfect for weddings, birthday parties, corporate events, sorority/fraternity functions, or any other type of social event.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JzPl2lqXi8

Contact Showtime Events today for more information about booking the World Famous Dueling Piano Show for your next event!

On the left James Auerbach, Vice President of Showtime Events.

On Monday, February 28 2011, James Auerbach, Vice President at Showtime Events attended the 2011 Solutions Spotlight Awards Gala at Meet Las Vegas.  The Event Solutions Spotlight Awards is an annual awards presentation that is dedicated to recognizing the very best and brightest of event professionals in the industry.  The awards are given out in a variety of categories and to individuals as well as companies for the work in the previous year.  This year Showtime Events was a finalist for the prestigious Event Company Of The Year award!

The Spotlight Awards is a 6-8 month long process which includes submitting nominations, selecting finalists, and industry-wide voting to determine the winners.  The winners are then physically presented with their awards at the annual Spotlight Events Awards at the Event Solutions Idea Factory conference and convention.

This year’s gala awards was held in the newest event facility in Las Vegas called “MEET Las Vegas”. The event featured a reception, dinner, awards presentation, entertainment, and after-party.  In addition the actual event featured some of the industry’s best known live performers.

This is the 4^th time that Showtime Events has been nominated for one of the Spotlight Awards. The nomination is a reflection of the hard work from everyone in the company at all 4 offices in FL, NC. MI and AL. Showtime Events is honored to have been recognized as a finalist!

Jas McDonald

Showtime Events is excited to introduce our newest intern, Jasmian McDonald. Jasmian, known by most as “Jas”, is a 21-year-old senior at North Carolina State University. She is majoring in Communications with a concentration in Public Relations. She is looking forward to graduating in May.

Born in Charlotte, NC, Jas spent most of her life in the small town of Sanford, NC, where she grew up as an only child with her mother and Toy Poodle, Diamond. Always having a passion for entertaining, she was a competitive dancer for 15 years and a cheerleader for her high school.

Over the summer of 2010, Jas got the opportunity to intern with Nordstrom where she fell in love with fashion and event planning. She hopes to get the opportunity to have a career in Fashion Public Relations and Event Planning.

While she is not a huge fan of traveling outside of the country, Jas got the opportunity to travel to Australia in March of 2010 where she described the country as beautiful. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her friends and family, singing, shopping (probably a little too much), going out, and watching television. Some of her favorite shows include Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, and the Real Housewives Franchise. She enjoys working out and has recently taken up spin, or cycling, as her work out of choice in order to counteract her love of food—anything fried to be exact!

While interning at Showtime Events, Jas has been directly involved in the planning and execution of multiple corporate and social events. In the coming months, she will continue to work with the Showtime North Carolina staff and their clients to gain further experience in the special events industry.

The recipient of the Spotlight Award is selected by an industry wide voting process. The Voting Site will be open from December 1, 2010 through January 31, 2011.

PLEASE VOTE FOR SHOWTIME EVENTS!

Visit http://www.event-solutions.com/spotlight/voting/index.php to vote!

Vote for us in the Event Company of the Year category.

Sarah is always smiling!

Showtime Events and Cobblestone Hall are excited to welcome Sarah Seligson back to the NC team. Sarah’s primary focus will be Cobblestone Hall and working with the clients and groups who have booked the venue for their upcoming events. Sarah will handle all aspects of the event from the initial meetings with the clients, to planning all details, and finally to the execution of the big day.

Sarah has been working for Showtime Events since February of 2005. She began working in the North Carolina office before transferring down to the Florida office in 2006. She was down in Florida for about 2 ½ years and worked alongside event producer, Rebecca Scozzafave, as her event coordinator.

Sarah studied Hospitality Management at East Carolina University and moved to London after graduating in 2004. There she worked for a event staffing company and was able to work at everything from Royal Weddings to Movie Premiers. Sarah has always had a huge passion for producing events. She loves all the components that go into making an event happen including the client relationships, the creativity, the planning, and the excitement that happens when everything comes together. Sarah can’t imagine working in any other industry!

Away from work Sarah has an English bulldog named Ziggy. She loves to travel abroad and enjoys running. In 2009, she combined her two passions and trained for her first marathon in Paris, France. She completed the marathon and is starting to train for a second one. Running is a good hobby for Sarah as it offsets the amount of sugar that she intakes on a daily basis. We often have to hide the office’s supply of candy or it will be depleted. Sarah also loves to dance.

We are excited to have Sarah back on the Showtime Events team!

September 14, 2010: Bay 7 in Durham, NC: Pictures from the Triangle NACE Annual Top of the Table Fundraiser to benefit Interfaith Food Shuttle.  For the second year Showtime Events provided the 30+ foot acrylic LED tables for the silent auction. The illuminated tables helped attract people and draw them in to bid on the silent auction items

The silent auction table Showtime Evenets provided consisted of the following configuration. From one end to the other - IM 30″ High boy cocktail table, IM 6′ buffet table with high bases, IM 6′ buffet table with high bases, IM 60″ octagon with low base and 30″ riser in middle with glass blocks, IM 6′ buffet table with high bases, IM 6′ buffet table with high bases, IM 30″ High boy cocktail table. The total length of the tables was 30+ feet and had different viewing levels in the middle (see pictures).

The illuminated silent auction table could have been made longer if needed by adding additional 8′ buffet tables on each side. Silent auction items were on both sides of the long table allowing people to walk on both sides and look at items all the way around the long table.

Was an incredible event that highlighted some of the amazing design talent in the Triangle NC area!

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