Team Member
Lynn Orman
Meet Lynn Orman
Board Member
For over 40 years Lynn has been working in all aspects of the entertainment industry following receiving her Masters Of Arts from Columbia College, Chicago in the Arts, Entertainment, Media & Management program. A powerful internship at WBEZ Radio as a producer and Steppenwolf Theater in the 80s led Lynn on her path to Entertainment Marketing & Public Relations working for Berk Entertainment Marketing and Gardner, Stein & Frank Advertising. As a part of the creative team Lynn led the Grabowski Shuffle & the Dole Pineapple campaign with Kenny Rogers. Lynn spent five years, doing the publicity and later booked the famed George’s Jazz Club in downtown Chicago, Zanie’s Comedy Club and opened Chicago’s Historic Riviera Nightclub where she did publicity and special events.
Alice Cooper and his wife Sheryl hired Lynn to be their publicist, respectively for different projects they were working on including the opening of the River North Dance Company. In 1982 she joined the National Academy Of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys) and is a Lifelong member who served as Vice President and on the selection committee in children’s music and spoken word. She remained on the Board of Directors for 12 years and is presently on the Blues membership committee.
In 2010 Lynn and Neli Vazquez Rowland founded “The Music Revolution To End Homelessness” in Chicago featuring up and coming musicians. In 2005 the Blues came calling when Lynn began working with Alligator Recording artist Blues Legend Eddy ‘The Chief’ Clearwater as his publicist and radio promoter. This instantly changed her life and Lynn became deeply rooted in the Blues.
In 2016 Lynn launched Women of The Blues: A Coast To Coast Collection honoring Koko Taylor. The traveling exhibit documents the past women Blues artists while recognizing and celebrating the future of Blues women performing on stages around the world. Over 140 photos are in the collection which has been featured in the National Blues Museum in St. Louis & The Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis and will travel to Cleveland in celebration of Women’s History Month this March, www.womenoftheblues.com
Lynn currently is a member of the Little Walter Foundation and the Bitter Jester Foundation. She was on the A Safe Haven Foundation for the Homeless for 15 years.
