About Us

The Partners

With over 20 years of experience coordinating events Geneva Gmelich O'Brien and Amy Price Staszkow have created a service-rich event planning firm that caters to our clients' individual needs. Geneva Gmelich O'Brien and Amy Price Staszkow have been event coordinators for the last thirteen years. Between the two of them, they have coordinated close to 500 events and have been involved with many more on a management level. O'Brien and Staszkow gained experience while they were employed at an event coordination firm in Los Angeles. At that time, their responsibilities included not only coordinating events, but also managing an office of nine employees. This gave both O'Brien and Staszkow invaluable experience in running an event coordination company as well as allowing them to maximize their knowledge, experience and working relationships in the event and entertainment industries. In June of 2000, O'Brien and Staszkow decided to create their own event coordination firm. In addition to O'Brien and Staszkow, Blue Room Events' staff consists of Senior Event Coordinators, Traci Hoffberg and Peter Farnan, and Assistant Event Coordinator Stephanie Gonzalez.

Geneva Gmelich O'Brien

A native Californian, received a B.A. from Fairfield University in 1992. She holds a Communications degree with a minor in Spanish. After graduation, O'Brien returned to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Special Event Coordination and Fundraising. O'Brien has handled many high profile, successful events with care and detail. Following is small sampling of those events: Rock the Vote's Patrick Lippert Awards (Los Angeles and New York 2001-2003), Jaguar's Tribute to Style with the Entertainment Industry Foundation 2002, Liberty Hill Foundation's Upton Sinclair Awards Dinner 2001-2003 and 2005-2007, Los Angeles Premiere of Rugrats to benefit Caring for Children & Families with AIDS (CCFA), Ettie Lee Youth & Family Services, Hollygrove and Vista Del Mar through, Friends of the Family "Families Matter Benefit and Celebration" 2004-2007, Constitutional Rights Foundation Annual Spring Dinner (1995-2000, 2004, 2007), Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness Gala Dinner 2003-2007, to name just a few…

Amy Price Staszkow

Originally from the east coast, received a B.A. from Syracuse University in 1992. She holds a Marketing degree from the Syracuse University School of Management. Staszkow moved across country after graduation to also pursue a career in Special Event Coordination and Fundraising. Staszkow also worked with a variety of non-profit organizations and has completed a number of very successful events over the past 20 years including Macy's Passport AIDS Benefit/Glamorama, Peace Over Violence Humanitarian Awards, Tiger Woods Foundation - Tiger Jam, IIDA Calibre Awards, Cartoon Network - LIMA Cocktail Party, March of Dimes Celebration of Babies Luncheon and the Costume Designers Guild Awards.  Staszkow has also worked on a variety of movie premieres for Paramount Pictures, Relativity Media and Warner Bros.

Traci Hoffberg

A native Californian, received a B.A. from Arizona State University in 1998. She holds a Communications degree from The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. Hoffberg gained experience in the event industry while working for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Arizona, and returned to Los Angeles in 1998 to pursue a career in Special Event Coordination. Hoffberg joined the Blue Room team in 2002 and has worked with a variety of non-profit organizations and completed a number of very successful events over the past 14 years including EQCA’s Equality Awards (Los Angeles, San Francisco & Palm Springs), Comedy for a Cure to benefit TS Alliance, GLSEN Respect Awards (Los Angeles & New York), and GLAAD Media Awards (Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco).  Hoffberg has also worked on a variety of movie premieres for Paramount Pictures and Relativity Media.

Peter Farnan

Upon receiving a degree from the University of New Hampshire in Hospitality Management in 1999, Peter Farnan relocated to Los Angeles from the east coast to pursue a career in the event and entertainment industry. Having held previous management and consultant positions at various establishments, Farnan adds an in depth working knowledge of the service industry and the attention to detail essential to create, implement and manage successful events. Since joining the Blue Room Team in 2001, Peter has worked on various events including the Peace Over Violence Humanitarian Awards Dinner, Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Los Angeles Care & Cure Dinner, Pat Brown Institute Annual Gala, Space Frontier Foundation's Arthur C. Clarke Gala, Physicians for Social Responsibility Gala Dinner, World Stunt Awards and a large variety of movie premieres for Paramount Pictures and Relativity Media.

 

Since the doors of Blue Room Events opened in July, 2000, the partners have continued their tradition of coordinating exceptional events. Following is a sampling of some of their past and recent events:

  • Macy's Passport  and Macy’s Passport Presents Glamorama - San Francisco and Los Angeles
  • Liberty Hill Foundation's Upton Sinclair Dinner
  • Costume Designers Guild Awards
  • March of Dimes Celebration of Babies Luncheon
  • Tiger Woods Foundation Tiger Jam & Block Parties
  • Equality California (EQCA) Equality Awards Dinner - Los Angeles, San Francisco and Palm Springs.
  • Peace Over Violence Humanitarian Awards Dinner
  • Taurus World Stunt Awards
  • Friends of the Family "Families Matters Benefit and Celebration"
  • "Comedy for a Cure" Benefiting TS Alliance
  • William Rast Fashion Show, performance by Justin Timberlake
  • GLSEN Respect Awards Los Angeles and New York
  • Elyse Walker's "Pink Party" Benefiting Cedars-Sinai Women's Cancer Research Institute.
  • Alternative Living for the Aging
  • Class of Hope Prom, benefiting Planet Hope
  • Rock the Vote's Patrick Lippert Awards
  • Los Angeles Hillel Council Back to Campus Celebration
  • Homeless Health Care Los Angeles Plato De Oro Dinner at Maple Drive Restaurant
  • Jaguar's Tribute to Style on Rodeo Drive
  • GLAAD Media Awards (New York, Los Angeles & San Francisco)
  • Fredericks of Hollywood' s Annual Lingerie Auction to benefit Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance / Clothes Off Our Back Foundation
  • The American Ireland Fund's Los Angeles Gala
  • "Illuminations" a benefit for the American Infertility Association
  • Mercedes-Benz Design Cure benefiting The HollyRod Foundation
  • Project Inform's Evening of Hope
  • Days of Dialogue 10th Anniversary Celebration

Movie Premieres

  • Premieres for Paramount Pictures:  
Jeff Who Lives at Home
Young Adults
Footloose
Like Crazy
Puss & Boots
Super 8
KFP2
Rango
No Strings Attached
True Grit		 The Fighter
Megamind
Jackass 3-D
Shrek 4
How to Train Your Dragon
Lovely Bones
Up in the Air
The Goods
GI Joe
Transformers
 		 Dance Flick
Star Trek
Monsters vs. Aliens
Benjamin Buttons
Madagascar
Eagle Eye
Tropic Thunder
Love Guru
Kung Fu Panda
Indiana Jones
 		 Iron Man
Stop Loss
Spiderwick
Cloverfield
Beowulf
Things We Lost in the Fire
Heartbreak Kid
Hot Rod
Stardust
  • Premieres for Relativity Media:
Mirror Mirror Act of Valor Haywire Immortals

                 


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