COLUMBUS, OH (CelebrityAccess) – Judi Ludovico has been appointed the brand new Director of Reserving for Columbus Enviornment Sports activities & Leisure (CASE). Ludovico is a seasoned skilled within the dwell leisure business, with a profession that spans roles as a booker, promoter, and producer. Her most up-to-date place was Vice President of Enterprise Improvement at IMG, the place she led the creation of latest occasions for the Arts and Leisure North America division, together with winter experiences, exhibitions, and music festivals.
Earlier than that, Ludovico served as Head of Leisure for Atlantic Metropolis, NJ tourism, accountable for producing and selling seashore live shows, culinary festivals, and sporting occasions. Earlier in her profession, she was Director of Productions Programming for Madison Sq. Backyard Leisure (MSGE), managing routing and reserving for the Radio Metropolis Christmas Spectacular enviornment and theater excursions.
Aaron Thomas, CASE Chief Leisure Officer, “We’re thrilled for Judi to affix the crew at CASE. Her wealth of expertise and robust relationships will complement our group as we proceed to develop our footprint within the central Ohio market.”
CASE oversees the Schottenstein Middle and Nationwide Enviornment in Columbus. Nationwide Enviornment is dwelling to the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets. The Schottenstein Middle on the Ohio State College campus hosts Buckeye males’s basketball, ladies’s basketball and males’s ice hockey. CASE additionally presents and promotes occasions at Mershon Auditorium and Ohio Stadium. The group’s public-private partnership provides solution to an modern answer that presents a unified face in Columbus for occasion promoters, producers, brokers and artists, elevating Columbus as a premier vacation spot for sports activities and dwell leisure and serving as a major financial driver for central Ohio.
Ohio Stadium, affectionately referred to as “The Shoe,” has turn out to be a major venue for leisure occasions, drawing attendees nationwide. The stadium hosted a record-breaking 5 performances in a single week in 2023, together with reveals by Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks, Mötley Crüe, and two nights of Morgan Wallen. It’s also the house of the annual Buckeye Nation Superfest and has just lately hosted distinctive occasions like Higher Deck Golf. Upcoming occasions embody a soccer match between Chelsea FC and Manchester Metropolis on August 3, 2024, and the NHL Stadium Sequence sport between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Detroit Crimson Wings in March 2025.
Mershon Auditorium, a 2,700-seat theater on the Ohio State College campus, is now below CASE’s administration, initiating CASE’s resurgence in leisure bookings and hosts quite a lot of acts, together with Janelle Monáe, Bobby Weir, Ringo Starr, John Oliver, Ben Platt, Dancing with the Stars, Parliament Funk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Steve Martin, Martin Quick, and Cirque du Soleil.