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 SKIP BREVIS (Composer, Musical Director) is a busy New York City producer, arranger, musical director, composer and consultant who works with top artists in theater, music and film. He co-created, arranged, and musical directed the original production of Beehive, the 60's Musical, in New York City and on the road. Other original works include Showdown!, now in its third year in Europe and the Mediterranean. Recent theatrical projects include Assisted Living:The Musical and Martin, the new Charles Strouse / Leslie Lee musical opening this fall in NYC. Skip's long running R&B show band, The Stingers, continues to perform at events here and around the world. |
 CLAUDIA BREVIS (Composer) vocal arranged and composed original music for Beehive, the 60's Musical. Her music has been featured on stage, television, film and recordings. Claudia co-created Norwegian Cruise's production show, Showdown!, now in its third year. She's currently shopping screenplays, working on her novel, the story of a post-apocalyptic New York City, and trying to tame her unruly hair. Co-creator of the best boys ever: Casey & Dylan. |
 JOHN CARRAFA (Director, Choreographer) is the two-time Tony Award-nominated choreographer of Into The Woods and Urinetown: The Musical. He also received an Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award and Dora Award for Urinetown, as well as nominations for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Other Broadway credits include Dirty Blonde, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Dance of The Vampires and Dance of Death. He conceived, directed and choreographed the Beach Boys musical Good Vibrations on Broadway. He has choreographed at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theater Club and for the New York City Center Encores! Series. He choreographed A Little Night Music for the Sondheim Celebration at The John F. Kennedy Center. He's directed at Manhattan Theater Club, New York Stage and Film, Yale Rep, American Conservatory Theater and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He won honorable mention as Best Director for Academy at the 2009 NYMF and Best Musical at the Daegu International Music Theater Festival in South Korea. He's choreographed over 20 films including The Thomas Crown Affair, Bride Wars, The Last Days of Disco, The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, Arthur starring Russell Brand and Jennifer Garner, Something Borrowed starring Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin, and The Polar Express for which he pioneered the use of motion capture technology to create choreography on film. For television he directed Great Performances Thou Swell, Thou Witty: The Songs of Rogers and Hart, and choreographed Sex and the City, Big Love, Ugly Betty and Blue Bloods. He recently directed and choreographed the spectacular dark circus Cirque Berzerk. Current directorial projects include two musicals in development with writer Jay Reiss, one of the original creators of Spelling Bee. |
 JENN RAPP (Associate Director/Choreographer) is a Director/ Choreographer living in NYC. In 2011 she'll be working on two Off-Broadway productions and a new musical for the NYC Fringe Festival. Twice a year, she boards a cruise ship to direct & choreograph the ongoing NCL production of LE CIRQUE BIJOU, a mix of aerial circus choreography and modern dance. She has extensive experience mounting national and international tours of popular cartoon TV characters, putting the likes of Dora The Explorer, Spongebob Squarepants, and Scooby-Doo into original musical theatre productions. This past year she Choreographed the US National Tour of MADAGASCAR, and Directed/Choreographed the US National Tour of THOMAS AND FRIENDS LIVE! and the Spanish and Latin American Tours of SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS LIVE. She also worked with John Carrafa on ACADEMY for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. www.jennrapp.comCHINA LEE (Costume Design) designed The Tenth Floor Musical, Sin, Othello, The Trial, Breath Boom, Spring Awakening and contemporary dance productions of Death of a Poet and Silence of Hippocrates. Associate and assistant design credits include Broadway productions; Merchant of Venice, Jersey Boys, Julius Caesar, The Apple Tree, Fame Becomes Me, Good Vibrations, Sight Unseen, Next Fall, Lincoln Center productions; Henry IV, Big Bill, Cymbeline and The Metropolitan Opera; Il Trittico.
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RYAN B. GIBBS* (Production Stage Manager) New York: Wicked (Broadway), Avenue Q (Off Broadway), Savage in Limbo (Rosalind Productions), Broadway Backwards 6, 36th Annual Winter Solstice Festival and Songs For A New World. National Tours: Avenue Q, The Drowsy Chaperone, Rent The Will Roger's Follies starring Larry Gatlin and The Man of La Mancha. Regional and Stock: Fulton Theatre, Forestburgh Playhouse, Allenberry Playhouse, Carousel Dinner Theatre to name a few. In addition to Stage Management, Ryan has also worked as a Director, Company Manager, Lighting Designer and Production Manager. Ryan holds a BA in Theatre from Marywood University.
STANLEY HOPKINS (Associate Vocal Director) is currently a vocalist with Skip Brevis's Stingers Band as well as vocal contractor. He has worked with Skip on many projects over the years, most recently Showdown! for Norwegian Cruise Lines. Thanks Skip for all the continuous work
MATTHEW KURTIS LUTZ* (Assistant Stage Manager) NYC Credits: Theatreworks/USA, The Public Theater. Regional Credits: The Colonial Theatre, Cape May Stage, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, First Folio Shakespeare Festival, and the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC. Matthew is a proud member of AEA.
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 DANIEL NEUMANN (Sound Design) is a Brooklyn-based artist working with sound and audio engineer, originally from Leipzig, Germany. He holds a master's degree in media art at the ACADEMY OF VISUAL ARTS LEIPZIG and also studied electronic music composition under Emanuelle Casale. Daniel currently works as a curatorial assistant for DIAPASON GALLERY, as the curator for the series SANTOS IS CLOSED, as an independent composer and sound designer, and as an audio engineer.
His works for theater include sound design for LA CUECA, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC (2011); the award winning play ACADEMY at Suseong Artpia, Daegu, South Korea (2010); MIKA performed at the United Nations, NYC (2008); SCHWIMMSTADION LEIPZIG (2008); sound design and music for THE DALI PROJECT, St. Ann's Warehouse, NYC (2010); SHELF LIFE, Fringe, NYC (2009); ATOMIC, NYC (2009) and sound engineering (A1) for THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, St. Clemens Theater, NYC (2010); various shows at Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, NYC (2008-2010); NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATER FESTIVAL (2008/2009) and many more.
Other sound engineering engagements include A-1 for the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYCEMF (2009&2010), for the ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION (since 2009), for EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA (since 2010) and for SANTOS PARTY HOUSE (since 2008).
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| *Appearing Courtesy of Actors' Equity
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BRETT MAUGHAN (Lighting Design) is a freelance designer, director, and actor. A Colorado native with a BS in Geological Engineering, he chose to pursue theatre as a profession in 2000 and moved to NYC in 2005. He most recently designed lights for a choral/theatrical production at Carnegie Hall and for an Irish tap dance show that included a tour of Eastern Canada, a run at the New Victory Theatre on 42nd St, and a month touring around the UK. He is the resident lighting designer and technical director for the Richmond Shepard Theatre.
JEREMIAH JURKIEWICZ (ACR) is a Senior Dramatic Arts Major at the College of Staten Island and Minoring in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He has performed in three shows at the college including: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus; Peaseblossom) which went on to the regional Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, One Flea Spare (Kabe), and All in the Timing (Milton; Trotsky; Philip Glass). He has also performed in a number of staged readings. This is his first time working with the Fringe Festival and he is honored to be doing so.
NEIL PATEL (Scenic Design) is a New York City based scenic designer who works in theater, opera, dance and film. He has designed Oleanna, Sideman, [title of show], 'Night Mother, Wonderland and Ring of Fire for Broadway. Off-Broadway his credits include productions at Second Stage, Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, BAM, New York Theater Workshop, Vineyard Theater and Playwrights Horizon, having designed productions of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, This Beautiful City, The Beard of Avon, Living Out, Here Lies Jenny, Dinner with Friends, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Quills and The Grey Zone. His regional work has been seen at the Guthrie Theater, The Kennedy Center, Center Theater Group, McCarter Theater, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare among many others. His work with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company has been seen throughout the world, including the Holland Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Exit Festival in Paris and BAM. Opera credits New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Montreal Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theater and the Minnesota Opera. Tokyo: Candide, Bent, Torch Song Trilogy and Take Flight at Parco Theater. London credits include Sideman and Underneath the Lintel (West End), A Question of Mercy (Bush Theater) and Henry IV (RSC). Dance: Shadowland (Pilobolus) Madrid premiere and European tour. Television and Film: In Treatment (HBO), The Feiffer Dancer Films. Awards include the Helen Hayes Award, the 2000 EDDY Award, numerous Drama Desk and Hewes nominations and the 1996 and 2001 Obie Awards for sustained excellence in set design.