Archive for October, 2009
Courtney Breslin, Producing/Artistic Associate
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Courtney Breslin received her BFA from Hofstra University. She has worked as an actress with companies such as The Queens Players, The Riant Theatre and Young Playwrights Inc. and The Actor’s Project NYC. Courtney is currently working with The Pearl Theatre Company as their Audience Services Manager. In 2008 she formed White Apron Productions with some fellow Hofstra alumna, specializing in modern Commedia dell’Arte productions using masks, improv and physical comedy. Courtney is also a voice over artist and sketch comedy writer.
Jaki Silver, Producing Associate
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Jaki Silver is thrilled to be in her second year as Producing Associate with Prospect Theater Company, for whom she Associate Produced With Glee and The Hidden Sky during the last season. In 2010 she also Associate Produced Multistages Hell and High Water, was ACR for three shows, and Assistant Directed The Morning After The Night Before in the New York Fringe Festival. Currently she works reviewing scripts for Spark Productions, is a company management intern for Davenport Theatrical Enterprises on Avenue Q, and works on Fidelity FutureStages with Frankel Green Theatrical Management to bring Broadway to underserved children all over the city. She is Managing Producer for IRT Theater’s upcoming production of Carnival Round the Central Figure to be performed in January 2011, directed by Karen Kohlhaas.
Colin Deeb, Producing/ Artistic Associate
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Colin Deeb holds a BFA in Acting from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to his undergraduate training, he has also studied with the Ouroboros Theater Company in Dublin, Ireland and Commedia mask performance with the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. Previous credits include Claude in HAIR (Pretenders Theatre, Los Angeles), Allen in bobrauschenbergamerica, and Owen in Translations (Theatre UCSB).
Jason Butler, Casting Assistant
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Jason Butler currently works as an Agent Assistant at The Gersh Agency. Previously, he was the Assistant to the Executive Director at Roundabout Theatre Company. Jason graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Communication and Theatre Studies. UPenn directing credits include Closer, Nine, The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?, Elegies: A Song Cycle, John and Jen, Oleanna, Bat Boy, and The Last Five Years. He is the proud recipient of the Jane Wallace Award and Kelly Writers House Playwriting Fellowship. Jason has previously interned at 101 Productions, Ltd., Abrams Artists Agency, MCC Theatre, and Philadelphia Theatre Company.
Matthew Menter, Producing/Artistic Associate
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Matthew is a producer for both theatre and film. Most recently, he was the Associate Producer/Marketing Manager on Michael Puzzo’s Lyric Is Waiting at the Irish Rep, and the Assistant Producer on MCC Theater’s FreshPlay Festival. He has directed and produced for the Hangar Theatre, MCC Theater, New Dramatists, Stagedoor Manor, Cazenovia College, Syracuse University, and the Syracuse International Film Festival. Has assisted on productions of Art, A Raisin in the Sun, Bunnicula, A Hard Heart, Icarus’s Mother, and Dangerous Corner. Matthew has a B.A. in Writing and Directing for Film and Theatre from Binghamton University.
Shane Bland, Producing/Artistic Associate
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Credits include Dreyfus in Rehearsal (Assistant Director, Off-Broadway); El Diva Del Voodoo (Assistant Director); and Disney’s Aladdin Jr. (Choreographer). As a performer: How Now, Dow Jones (NYC Fringe); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams (Original Broadway Cast, 1st US Tour); Disney’s The Lion King (Toronto Company); Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Montreal); Harold Prince’s Show Boat (Canada, 1st US Tour) and regionally in The Producers, J.C. Superstar, Peter Pan, Man of La Mancha and Oliver. Shane has made appearances on Live! With Regis & Kelly, ABC’s Good Morning America, and on NBC’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Stephen Tate, Producing Associate
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Steve has worked in nonprofit regional and commercial Broadway theatre for over eight years and has since established Tate Theatrics, a full service theatrical producing office. Steve made his producing debut with The Blue Flower, now slated for a commercial run presented by Stephen Schwartz. Other producing credits include award-winning Green Eyes, Onward, Prospect Theater Company 10th Anniversary Concert, and The Four. A graduate from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Steve spent four years at the Tony Award winning La Jolla Playhouse. Commercially, Steve ventured into the Broadway realm as Marketing Manager of RENT during its 10th Season of Love and national movie launch while employed at TMG – The Marketing Group. Steve worked in the online advertising arm of Broadway with Situation Interactive, serving a variety of productions including Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line (2006 revival), Blue Man Group, and Pulitzer Prize winning August: Osage County. Steve is a founding member of FocusRelay, LLC, a marketing company specializing in online content creation and distribution.
Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Producing/Artistic Associate
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Kelvin Dinkins, Jr. was born in Queens, New York and grew up in Atlanta, GA. Kelvin recently received his A.B. degree in English and a Certificate in Theatre & Dance from Princeton University where he was a proud member of Princeton’s Famous Triangle Club. Kelvin is a director, actor and playwright whose most recent work, Orpheus Waking, a new musical, was produced in the Matthews Acting Studio at Princeton University. Kelvin is currently working at the National Artists Management Company-Barry and Fran Weissler, working in the International Management Department. Kelvin also serves as a Young Trustee for the Princeton Triangle Club.