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Neal Freeman (director/adapter) is a New York City-based free-lance director.
He worked with puppet designer Michael Malbrough for 9 years at
Baltimore's Open Space Arts, forming part of a community of
artists who every summer worked on writing, directing,
designing, and producing The Great Doings Day, an outdoor giant puppet festival
made up of 10 new works each year. Neal is an alumnus of and an
associate artist with the Cornell University Theatre program,
where he recently returned as a guest artist to direct Vincent in Brixton. In November, Neal worked with the OBIE-winning
Ridge Theater on the American premier of Shelter at the
BAM Next Wave Festival, and will work with the company again
this fall on Mac Wellman and David Lang's multi-media opera The Difficulty of Crossing a Field. Last fall, Neal
directed the premier of Warren Leight's short play Fear
Network News for Naked Angels. Other recent New York
directing credits include As You Like It, The Laramie
Project, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(abridged). Neal has directed Shakespeare 8 times and
acted in his plays 7 more. www.moatedgrange.com |
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Michael C. Malbrough (designer) is a
professional illustrator, cartoonist and puppet designer. As the
Sculptor-In-Residence at Baltimore's Open Space Arts Theatre,
Michael designed and built puppets for dozens of shows over his
nine-year tenure. He has lectured on puppet design and
construction at Eastern Connecticut University and conducted
workshops and collaborations with Syracuse University and the
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. Michael currently holds a staff
position as a graphic illustrator for Raw Blue Apparel,
publishes an independent graphic novel series, Fire Proves
Iron, and is a member of the Valley Arts Beautification
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Heather Collis (producer) is a theatre/film producer, actor, writer and
rapper. She was the production coordinator for The Kindness
Concert in Bryant Park starring Tom Chapin, Julie Gold, Lucy
Simon and Dan Zanes. At Ensemble Studio Theatre she has
produced Whose Country is it Anyway, The Creative
Disobedience Cabaret and Crack'd. Films include The Dishwasher, a Masked Offender Production, which she
wrote and acted in, and she was the producer's assistant for Shiner by
Mike Doyle of HBO's Oz and starring George Morfogen.
She has acted in various New York City Theatres including The
Abingdon Theatre, The Estrogenious Festival (producing a
play she wrote), The New Georges Theatre, Ensemble Studio
Theatre (producing various one-acts and sketches she wrote) and Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She has also
acted in several independent films and will be in a scene with
Keri Russell in August Rush, currently filming. She has
rapped in shows with hip hop legends such as Kurtis Blow and
continues to perform around NYC doing mostly politically charged
raps. |
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