The creator of many best-selling business resources Chris Zavadowski, president of Lifetime Marketing Success, Inc., and has helped tens of thousands of people around the world build their businesses on autopilot with his direct response marketing and outsourcing systems.
Chris and his team currently consult with and manage the online presence for six retail brands, including several Amazon best-sellers. He, along with his team, has also recently set up and managed the online presence for several DC-area performing arts organizations, and an Off-Broadway show in NYC.
He’s shared the stage with top marketers like Yanik Silver, Ryan Deiss, Marlon Sanders and more. You can find Chris’ marketing systems and materials being spotlighted at the sold-out Underground Online Marketing Seminars – where he also spoke two times. And his promotion methods were highlighted by Glazer-Kennedy Insider’s Circle.
Chris was recently named the DotComSecrets’ “Coach of the Year” in one of his industries — the very first recipient of the award. And his materials have been endorsed by the “who’s who” of online marketing: Yanik Silver, John Reese, Mike Filsaime, Jeff Walker, John Carlton, Ryan Deiss, Ed Dale, Rich Schefren, Jeff Mulligan, Jeff Johnson, Daegan Smith, Jerry Clark, and many others.
You can find him featured as the Internet marketing contributor in The Ultimate Guide to Network Marketing, available at all major book stores. Additionally, he has guest lectured at Tulane University and The University of Iceland on real-world business & online marketing strategies. And he has guest lectured at The Catholic University of America on the business of the arts and the future of arts & the Internet.
Chris is also a strong believer in giving back to the community. Each year he and his company donate & and raise tens of thousands of dollars for a wide variety of charities and non-profit organizations like the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the Lymphoma Research Foundation, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Collaborative Arts Project 21, charity:water, scholarship funds, his zany “Charity Power Hour” charity fundraisers, and many other important causes!
Theater
Chris Zavadowski, a native of Northern Virginia, was recently music director and marketing director for new, sold-out productions of Hello, Dolly! (winner of 3 BroadwayWorld DC-area awards, including Best Production), Peter Pan, and Into the Woods (the latter two both given DC Metro Theater Arts “Best Musical” Honors, with Woods getting a “Best Music Direction” distinction). Before that, he music & vocal directed wildly successful sold-out productions of Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast, Man of La Mancha, The Wizard of Oz, Annie, and Honk!. He was also recently selected as Rob Ruggiero’s directing observer for Goodspeed’s new version of the Broadway musical, RAGS.
In New York, he worked with producers of the Off-Broadway musical, The ARK– both as an investor, and as Internet marketing director to develop an innovative marketing system to tap into a new audience base. Along those lines, he was a guest lecturer at The Catholic University of America on the business of the arts and the future of arts & the Internet.
Before that, he worked with Eric Schaeffer (artistic director of the Sondheim Celebration) on the Kennedy Center’s production of Sunday in the Park with George. Serving as an assistant to the director, he began a relationship that continued at Mr. Schaeffer’s Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in the following season, where Chris served as Assistant Director on the highly-anticipated new production of 110 in the Shade (winner of two Helen Hayes awards and five nominations, including Outstanding Resident Musical – the same new version that appeared on Broadway starring Audra McDonald). By a twist of fate, Chris was also cast in the production and performed alongside Matt Bogart, Jacqueline Piro and others to close out the musical.
Chris has opened Virginia Tech’s main stage theatre season as director of the musical Cole. Offered a guest artist position before graduation, Chris holds the distinction of being the first Virginia Tech graduate invited back as a director. Opening shortly after 9/11, this timely production celebrated New York, America and true patriotism, and received rave reviews.
Prior to his work on Cole, he directed and musical directed the Virginia premier of the Off-Broadway musical Little By Little. Playing to sold out, enthusiastic houses, this show brought a rebirth of musical theater workshop productions to Virginia Tech. Believing no theater — musical or otherwise — consists of “fluff”, he also directed a chilling production of That Midnight Rodeo in southwest Virginia.
Experienced as a musical director, he ran all musical aspects of Mill Mountain Theatre’s Summer Drama Day Camp in Roanoke, Virginia for 3 years. At the same time, he created a new revue,Golden Years of Broadway, then produced and performed two versions of the show throughout his home state. A year earlier, with the help of a fellow Virginia Tech graduate, he created a revue of lesser-known Broadway tunes. Called Applause, Applause!, Chris served as the revue’s producer, musical director, and as a performer for the production.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Virginia Tech, he holds Summa Cum Laude degrees in both Music Performance and Theater – the first student to ever successfully complete such a demanding curriculum at the university. He has also trained in New York City at the Manhattan School of Music, Broadway Dance Center, the CAP21 musical theater conservatory, and also at the renowned Goodspeed Musicals’ Musical Direction Intensive under Michael O’Flaherty. Plus, he was awarded Virginia Tech’s prestigious Helen Hayes award for “outstanding contribution to theater”.
No stranger to the stage, his professional stage credits include: 110 in the Shade(Swing), Fiddler on the Roof (Constable), Singin’ in the Rain (Roscoe), South Pacific (Brackett), 1940’s Radio Hour (Wally) and Hello, Dolly!. Other performance credits include A Little Night Music (Henrik), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum(Hero), Sound of Music (Captain), Jesus Christ Superstar (Peter), Guys and Dolls(Angie), Dido and Aeneas, his solo recitals From the Heart & Baroque to Broadway and the Kennedy Center. He also served as a soloist for The Metropolitan Chorus.
With the help of CultureFinder, Inc., Chris Zavadowski created the first online area in the world for students in the arts. The forum, called Extreme Culture, was originally launched on America Online in December, 1996. Chris was Editor-in-Chief of Extreme Culture through 2000.
Based in the Washington, D.C. area, Chris is also the president of his own marketing and publishing company, Lifetime Marketing Success, Inc.. He has spent the majority of the last few years blending art with the Internet to create, among other things, new Internet-based theatre projects.
He was named “coach of the year” in one of his industries and with tens of thousands of customers, subscribers and students, Chris has spoken around the country at the top marketing seminars, in addition to holding his own live events.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:
“Chris is a member of that rare breed who seems equally endowed with both left and right brain attributes…a multi-faced man. Chris has innate talent and excellent training as a musician and theater artist, as well as in directing, acting, dance, voice and conducting. His craft is excellent, but more importantly his intellect, imagination and, dare I say, soul are marked by the care, wit and empathy that only great directors possess. His sense of humor is another of his invaluable traits. I have been privileged to work with some of the greatest talents in drama and musical theater history. Chris will hold his own among them. He has the promise to be a producer/director in the tradition of Hal Prince.” – Karen Walter Goodwin, Broadway & Film Producer
“…extremely impressed with his attention to detail…I knew I wanted Chris on my team. The cast truly loved working with him. He worked them extremely hard and got more out of of them musically than anyone I’ve ever worked with. Chris collaborated very well and had wonderful ideas to contribute in terms of the artistic vision of the production.” – Rob Tessier, Upper Room Theatre Founder/Producer/Director
“With all wordy Sondheim shows, it is easy to get lost in the music and complex melodies and loose energy in the words, making them hard to make out. Under the musical direction of Chris Zavadowski, [the cast] were crystal clear.…There was not a single moment in the show that I questioned a word or song.” – Ashton Schaffer, DC Metro Theater Arts
“I don’t know of another student who was so focused and clear about what he wanted to do with his life…maturity, knowledge of musical theatre literature, directorial skills, and production experiences… He is a bright, dedicated, and multi-talented individual.” – Don Drapeau, Head of the Department of Theater Arts, Virginia Tech
Charity
A strong believer in giving to the community, each year Chris Zavadowski and his company donate and raise thousands of dollars for a wide variety of charitable organizations. From building complete wells in Africa to funding cancer researchers, in recent years, he has raised over $170,000.00 for worthwhile causes.
In addition to being team captain of the top Northern Virginia Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Light the Night team (TeamZavadowski.com), for years Chris sat on the Leadership Team for all of the National Capital Area Walks.
He is also currently an Ambassador for the Lymphoma Research Foundation, speaking at events to help advance the mission of LRF in ultimately eradicating lymphoma.
Here’s a clip that recently aired on Comcast Newsmakers and CNN…
Here are a few of the other organizations Chris and his company have supported…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Collaborative Arts Project 21
Freedom from Hunger
Christian Foundation for Children & Aging
The Smile Train
Village Enterprise Fund
The Pajama Program
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Make-a-Wish Foundation
United Service Organizations
Autism Research
Alzheimer’s Association
Habitat for Humanity
Charity: Water
Arts Scholarship Funds
And many others!
Social Media
If you want to find Chris Zavadowski on social media, here ya go…
The creator of many best-selling business resources Chris Zavadowski, president of Lifetime Marketing Success, Inc., and has helped tens of thousands of people around the world build their businesses on autopilot with his direct response marketing and outsourcing systems.