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A professional theater director with leadership credibility through an attention to detail, process and vision in realizing the theatrical endeavor.

 

Associations

 

Recent

Boomers The Musical Of A Generation

Conceived by Peter Baron

MITF: July 2011, New York, NYC

Intelligence Slave

By Kenneth Lin

CUNY Graduate Center, 2011
Break-A-Leg Productions

Copenhagen

By Michael Frayn

CUNY Graduate Center, 2011
Break-A-Leg Productions

Lovers-A new, contemporary musical

Book, Music, Lyrics: Christopher Massimine

MITF: 2010 [Development Consultant]

Hadleyburg-A new musical [Staged Reading]

Book: Bob Griffiths, Lyrics: Mae Richard, Music: John Clifton

MITF: 2010 - Nominated-Best Musical Reading

The Wiz

By William F. Brown and Charles Smalls

BST-Main Stage, 2010
St. Albans, Queens, NYC

Shadows of the Mountain [Creative Consultant]

Book, Lyrics: James F. Tamney, Music: Rita Pearlman

Baltimore, Maryland, 2010

The Magic Flute Reloaded- A new musical

Book, Music, Lyrics: Frumi Cohen

BST Summer TA, 2009

 

 

Director

The Adventures of Kid Zero

Book: Ifa Bayeza     

Black Spectrum-Main Stage

God’s Trombones

By James Weldon Johnson
Adaptation: Linda Burson

Black Spectrum Theatre-CTI

Honk Jr.

Book: Anthony Drewe

BST-Summer Theatre Arts Program

Disney’s Aladdin Jr.

BST Theatre Arts Program

Queens, NYC

Disney’s 101 Dalmatians-Harlem Now

P. S. 136

St. Albans, Queens, NYC

The Chief’s Bride

Black Spectrum Theatre

Queens, NYC

Once On This Island

BST Theatre Arts Program

Queens, NYC

M.S. 911-A Middle School Story
By Frumi Cohen

Black Spectrum Theatre

Queens, NYC

And Then There Were None

Pawling Theater Company

Pawling, NY

Bugsy Malone Jr.

Black Spectrum Theatre

Queens, NYC

Amy Crockett - MVP
A new musical play
By Frumi Cohen

Black Spectrum Theatre

Queens, NYC

Babes In Arms

Black Spectrum Theatre

Queens, NYC

Torched

Downtown Urban Theater Festival

Harry du Jur Theater, NYC

The Music Man

Applause Performing Arts Center

Paramus, NJ

Background
A new play

CUNY Graduate Center Theater

NYC

The Wizard of Oz

RSC version- Artistic Director

Applause Performing Arts, NJ

Bowery Follies - Off-Broadway
A new musical comedy

Sharon Barnett - Book, Lyrics, Music

Fourteenth Street Y Theatre, NYC

Baby Buddha . . . Downtown Dysfunctionals II
Off-Broadway (Music In a Box)

Director of Dysfunctional Development

Zipper Theater, NYC

Boomers . . . Promises Made Not Kept
A new musical

Derryfield Theater

NH

Sessions
A new play

Greenwich Street Theater

NYC

Downtown Dysfunctionals
A serial musical

Off-Broadway (Music in a Box)

Cabaret 1050, NYC

Consumer Behavior
A new pop musical

Henry Street Settlement

Abrons Arts Center, NYC

Road Trip
By Tina Posterli

The Duplex-Cabaret Theater

NYC

A Show of Hands
A new musical by Frumi Cohen
1997 First Place Award Winner
The Festival For Contemporary Musical Theater, CO

Thirteenth Street Repertory Theater

NYC

 

 

 

What Kind Of Promise?
A new musical conceived &
developed by Gerald vanHeerden

Thirteenth Street Repertory Company

NYC

The Vampyre
By John Polideri

Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center

NY

Ten Percent In Maple Grove
By Mark Dunn

Elm Road Bible Baptist Church

Theater Studio Inc., NYC

 

 

Corporate

 

 

Hagstrom Map and Travel Center

Opening: Wall Street

Langenscheidt Publishers, Inc., NYC

The Wonderful Wizard of L

Industrial: Doral Park Avenue

Langenscheidt Publishers, Inc., NYC

 

 

Assistant Director

 

 

Always . . . Patsy Cline

Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA

Ted Swindley - Director

All God's Chillun Got Wings

New Day Repertory, NY

Linda Burson-Director

After The Fair

York Theater, NY

Travis Stockley-Director

Take This Show And Shove It!

TSRC, NYC

Phil Oesterman - Director

Democracy
A new musical

BroadwayUSA / NMTN

 

Mystery Repeats Itself

The Mask and Wig Club

 

Hit Or Mrs.?

The Mask and Wig Club

 

 

 

 

Educational Background

 

 

The Boston Conservatory, BFA
Major: Musical Theater

Boston, MA

May 1984

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