Christy Castillo Butcher
Senior vp of programming and booking, SoFi Stadium/YouTube Theater/Hollywood Park
“Opening two major venues in Los Angeles in the middle of a pandemic and hosting over 1 million concertgoers within five months of each other was a huge achievement,” says Castillo Butcher, whose role at the 300-acre Hollywood Park includes programming at the 6,000-capacity YouTube Theater and the 70,000-capacity
SoFi Stadium, which hosted Super Bowl LVI on Feb. 13. (The YouTube Theater will host Billboard’s Women in Music event on March 2.) The stadium’s bookings have so far included Kaskade; 1DayLA’s The Freedom Experience with Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper and others in July; and performances by Los Bukis in August, The Rolling Stones in October and
BTS in December. BTS’ four-night run earned $33.3 million and sold over 200,000 tickets, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing engagement in Billboard Boxscore history. “I’m proud that our team curated a diverse lineup of events,” Castillo Butcher says, “building on our goal of making our venues a local and global destination.”