Rita Mannelli
Director of Marketing and Communications

Rita Mannelli joined DePaul's School of Music as the director of marketing and communications in 2006. She is responsible for the marketing and promotion of the school and its programs to prospective students and audience members. The school offers more than 300 public performances in a variety of musical styles each year at the DePaul Concert Hall and Recital Hall in Lincoln Park, DePaul's Merle Reskin Theatre in the South Loop and Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center. Prior to joining DePaul, Mannelli was the marketing director at Metro Theater Company, a mid-sized touring children’s theatre based in St. Louis. She has a bachelor of arts degree in speech communication from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a master of arts in public relations and advertising from DePaul University.