Foreverman (2012)

Brett graduated from Ithaca College in 2007 with a degree in Music Composition.  His musical adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was presented as the last musical of the Mainstage season at IC, something that had never been done before.  Brett has written three musicals: Austin's Bridge (Music by Brett M. Boles, Book and Lyrics by Bill C. Davis), Foreverman (Book, Music and Lyrics by Brett M. Boles), and The Count of Monte Cristo (Book, Music and Lyrics by Brett M. Boles).  He has had workshops of his pieces at The Firehouse Theater Project in Richmond, VA; Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, CT; Sage Theater in Times Square; Ground Up Productions in NYC (with Kristy Cates).  Foreverman has had a demo recording and a table read featuring Josh Young, Janine DiVita, Karen Elliott, and Alan H. Green.  Brett is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop and a presenting member of the Advanced Writer's Lab at the New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative (NOMTI) in Boston.

New York: I Hate Hamlet (Harbor Lights Theatre Co), Faraway Bayou (with Nikki M. James), Luck!  (York Theatre with Faith Prince), Into the Woods – Cap21/NYU, The 25th Anniversary Production of Torch Song Trilogy (starring  Seth Rudetsky), Like You Like It (NAMT, NYMF) Regional: Hello Out There (Goodspeed Musicals), 1776, Camelot, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Olney Theatre), Oliver! (Engeman Theatre), Gutenberg! The Musical, tick, tick…BOOM! (New Rep), Little Shop of Horrors (Temple Theatre)   Dreamgirls (WV Public Theatre), Seven Brides and The King and I (Gretna Theatre), The Fantasticks (Emelin Theatre), The Music Man, Cabaret, Chicago (TriArts), Miss Saigon and The Full Monty (Maine State), tick, tick…BOOM! (New Repertory Theatre), Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Italian American Reconciliation (Depot Theatre), Driving Miss Daisy, The Sunshine Boys, Urinetown (Barnstormers Theatre),   Hedwig (Capital Playhouse), Joseph..., Jesus Christ Superstar (WV Public Theatre), West Side Story (Italian Tour, NC Theatre),   Beehive, The World Goes 'Round (Seven Angels Theatre), Tommy, Evita (Pittsburgh Musical Theatre, Gateway Playhouse).   He has developed new works with NYU, NAMT, NYMF, The York Theatre, Emerging Artists Theatre, Musical Theatre Works.   He is a master class teacher and Guest Artist for the Signature Theatre, VA and Professional Performing Arts School. Proud Member of SDC www.stephennachamie.com

Broadway: The Graduate; Guys & Dolls; Epic Proportions; Anything Goes; The Music Man.  National Tour: Ragtime; Lend Me A Tenor.  Off-Broadway:  Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!; The Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show.  Regional: The Rhythm Club; Moon Over Buffalo; Company, Miracles (premiere); The Predators' Ball (premiere); LUV; Carousel; The Golden Land; Is There Life After High School?; Annie; Johnny Pye & The Foolkiller (premiere).  Film: “Freedom Writers.” Television: “Without a Trace,” “The West Wing,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Chappelle’s Show,” “The Young and the Restless,” “As the World Turns,” “Another World,” “One Life to Live.”

On Broadway Nat played the Pimpernel in The Scarlet Pimpernel, Encores! The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (Sony Records).  Off-Broadway: Counselor at Law, Tales of Tinseltown. National tours: The Phantom of the Opera, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Sarah Brightman, Into the Woods, The King and I with Yul Brynner and Sir Lancelot in Camelot with Robert Goulet. Recent roles: Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast at St. Louis MUNY and Billy Bigelow in Carousel (starring Shirley Jones as Aunt Nettie). Regional: Phantom! (Barrymore Award nom), Inherit the Wind, Show Boat, The Most Happy Fella, A Little Night Music, Pirates of Penzance, A Funny Thing… (Kevin Kline Award nom), Oklahoma!, Cabaret, Desert Song, The Merry Widow, Kismet, and South Pacific with Howard Keel. Television: “Guiding Light.” Mr. Chandler has appeared in Broadway Pops with major American symphony orchestras and his recordings, Broadway Knights and Like Father are available at: www.natchandler.com.

Recent credits; Death Takes a Holiday (Roundabout Theater Co), The Game of Love (York, Mufti) Annie (Houston TUTS), Hello Dolly w/ Leslie Uggams, (Dir. Lee Roy Reams/Houston TUTS).  Nine (WBT), Guys and Dolls w/Richard Kind (Ogunquit PH) Glory recently released her solo CD “Unusual Way” singing classic and contemporary Broadway favorites with The London National Symphony recorded at Abbey Road, England. Currently touring her one woman concert “Out of My Dreams.” Soloist to The Three Tenors’ Jose Carreras (Radio City Music Hall/Orchestra of St Luke’s), Guest soloist honoring The Royal Crown Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg, Other credits: 10 Leading Ladies at Paper Mill Playhouse including My Fair Lady, Camelot, Carousel, Jane Eyre; also My Fair Lady opposite Charles Shaughnessy (Pittsburgh CLO), “Christine” in the world premiere of the Kopit/Yeston Phantom (RCA Victor), The Fantasticks w/Robert Goulet (National & NYC). Featured on 12 recordings including; “The Musicality of Jerome Kern,” “Broadway Duets,” (Jay Records) “Unsung Berlin,” Unsung Musicals series, (Varese Saraband) “Romantic Duets” (RCA) among others.  TV: “The Good Wife” (CBS). In Sept: Pistache in Can Can (WBT).

Broadway: Les Misérables (Madame Thenardier); Les Misérables - revival (the Inkeeper’s Wife). Other theater: Evita, Hurricane (NYMF), Kiss Me Kate, Sylvia, Execution of Justice, The Nerd, Phantom and Sweeney Todd. Film/TV: One Life to Live, Children of Chernobyl and Sweet Dreams. Ms. Elliott is a graduate of The Juilliard School (Masters of Music) and has performed in musical theater, opera, and concert around Europe and the US. In addition to her work on stage Ms. Elliott is a writer, playwright, producer, director, teacher and hypnotherapist. To find out more about her body of work visit her website at www.karen-elliott.com and www.flowhypnosis.com.

Broadway/New York: American Idiot (Original Cast), The Public Theater's Concert staging of The Capeman at the Delacorte in Central Park. National Tour: Evita (Che), American Idiot Regional: The Pirates of Penzance (Frederick) at Chicago's Marriott Theatre, American Idiot (World Premiere Cast) at Berkeley Rep, Les Miserables (Marius) at Fulton Theatre, Saint-Ex (Jean Mermoz) World Premiere Cast at the Weston Theatre, HSM2 (Zeke) at North Shore Music Theatre. Workshops/Readings: Unsinkable Molly Brown (dir Kathleen Marshall) at the Denver Center New Play Summit, White Noise, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Training: UMIAMI (FL). Omar has had the privilege of working alongside Paul Simon in The Capeman and with Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day in American Idiot, which led to performances on The Grammy's, The Tony's, Late Night with David Letterman, and America's Got Talent. He is thrilled to be originating this role and making his NYMF debut in this incredible show!  Many thanks to his family and friends, the Talent House, Cindi Rush, Brett Boles and the rest of this fantastic creative team. 

National Tours: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Truly Scrumptious); Les Miserables (Factory Girl; Fantine u/s). Off-Broadway: The Extraordinary Ordinary (Bev). Other favorites: Hello! My Baby (Frances Gold) at Goodspeed;  [title of show] (Heidi) & The Pajama Game (Babe) with Arizona Theatre Company; 1776 (Martha) at Pittsburgh CLO; Pal Joey (Linda) at the Prince Music Theatre; Ford's Theatre's Children of Eden; and the regional premiere of Les Miserables (Fantine) with Pioneer Theatre Company. NYC workshops: Zhivago (dir. Des McAnuff) and Ace (dir. Sheryl Kaller). Kelly has appeared as a soloist with the Cincinnati and Omaha Symphony Orchestras, and can be heard on the Stage Stars recordings of Urinetown (Hope) and How to Succeed... (Rosemary). Love and endless thanks to the entire Foreverman team and The Mine. For JCB.

Broadway: Mamma Mia! (original cast) National Tours: The Phantom of the Opera (Raoul), Deaf West's Production of Big River (Mark Twain/Voice of Huck). Off Broadway: Fanny Hill (Will Plenty) with the York Theater Company, A Gingerbread House (Harley) at Playwrights Horizons. Regional highlights: Working and Emma (Mr. Knightley) at The Old Globe, Oklahoma! (Curly) at Papermill Playhouse, A Little Night Music (Henrik) at Northshore Music Theater, The Baker's Wife (Dominique) and Carnival (Paul) at Goodspeed Opera. Training: The University of Cincinnati College--Conservatory of Music and BADA at Oxford University. Love to my beauty, Paige.

 New York: Detour Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre at NY Live Arts, Recall, Colt Coeur at The Wild Project; Lost in Staten Island, La Mama; Lost In Yonkers, TACT at the Beckett; Asuncion, Rattlestick at Cherry Lane Theater; Fish Eye, Colt Coeur at HERE Arts Center; 3C, The Wood, There Are No More Big Secrets, American Sligo, Lady, Killers and Other Family, Saved or Destroyed, Miss Julie, all at Rattlestick; Girls in Trouble, Bingo With the Indians, The Break Up/The Happy Sad, Kaspar Hauser, A Light Lunch, The Great Recession, all at The Flea; The Singing Forest, The Public Theater (Henry Hewes Award nomination); White People, This Thing of Darkness, Atlantic Theater Company; Prayer For My Enemy, Playwrights Horizons; Play Yourself, New York Theater Workshop. Regional:  Time Stands Still, Studio Theater; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Yale Dramat; Prayer For My Enemy, The Singing Forest, Long Wharf and Intiman; The Wild Duck, Bard Summerscape, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, Loot, Intiman; Frozen, Psychic Life of Savages, The Empty Space; Miss Julie, Berkshire Theater Festival; Limbo Tales, Todd Mountian Theater Project; The Woman in Black, The Weir, Merrimack Rep; Tom Walker, South Coast Rep.

Anne is proud to be a part of her first NYMF show. Recent credits include Intimate Apparel, The Beggar's Opera (Rutgers University), It's a Wonderful Life (Mile Square Theatre), Ocean in a Teacup (Midtown International Theatre Festival), The Giantess (Tisch), and Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations (Bushwick Starr). Anne is a recent graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University with an MFA in Costume Design. Many thanks to Barry and Stephen for the opportunity!

A native Texan, Barry received his BA in Theatre with a minor in Fashion Design from TCU graduating with honors. He then became Resident Costume Designer for the Indianapolis based modern dance company, Dance Kaleidoscope where he worked for over five years. After a European Tour of the musical Hair as a performer, he moved to NYC where he has been working in the professional theatre on and off Broadway ever since in wardrobe and costume design. In the past fifteen years he has worked in costume shops, for TV pilots and Independent films, as well as Broadway shows. Some notable wardrobe jobs include Phantom of the Opera, 1776, Finian's Rainbow, Jane Eyre the Musical, Chinglish, The Scottsboro Boys, The Vertical Hour (starring Julianne Moore), and Three Days of Rain (starring Julia Roberts). For over five years he worked as a stitcher maintaining the Tony Award winning costumes for the hit musical Wicked. More recently, he has been working as Associate Costume Designer on Broadway earning his membership with United Scenic Artists Local 829 on such shows as The Seafarer, Hamlet (starring Jude Law), La Bete, RED, Exit the King (starring Susan Sarandon and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush), and most recently the current revival of Evita (starring Ricky Martin).

Susan has been illuminating productions in New York since 2004. Favorite productions include Ragtime and Xanadu at Cape Rep, Chicago at CCSU, and Shape of Things at Stamford Theatre Works. She has worked at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Regionally she has designed at the Forestburgh Playhouse, Enchanted Dance, Spirit of Broadway Theatre, and Harbor Lights Theatre. She is also a part of HG Lighting Design working on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions such as The Who's Tommy, Rooms, Myths & Hymns, The Rock Tenor, dozens of corporate events, and Anti-Gravity. She has worked on over 12 productions for the New York Music Festival garnering an honorable mention in design for River's End with Herrick Goldman. Other honors include Barbizon Region 3 winner, at the National level Runner-Up, Nominated for an Ostrander in Lighting in Memphis. She holds a BA from Purdue University and a MFA from the University of Memphis. www.susanmnicholsondesign.com

Mark is a media and projection designer, performer, and writer. Design credits include Perf Productions' Degeneration X (The Living Theater), Target Margin's The Tempest (HERE Arts Center), AP Andrews’ The Girl with the Red Balloon (The Tank). Technician credits include Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol (Abrons Arts Center), New Georges' The Germ Project (3-Legged Dog). Acting credits include God’s Ear (Robert Moss Theater). Mark specializes in original work; credits include Ach Du Leiber Himmel! (New York Theatre Workshop), Hello Trucking! (Theater for the New City), and Sometimes I Can Almost See (White Box at 440). BFA from NYU/Tisch. @marquismarkie.

New York: Rated P for Parenthood, Soap Myth, Naked Boys Singing, The Fall to Earth, Silence!, Any Given Monday, Freckleface Strawberry, Rooms, Jacques Brel, The Thing About Men, Urinetown Regional: Surflight Theatre 2011 Season, Penguin Rep, Triad Stage; Charleston Stage Company, Act II Playhouse; Goodman; Humanafest, Film: Jug Face Ghoul (Slamdance 2012), The Woman (Sundance 2011), In the Family (Independent Spirit Awards 2012) Headspace, Home Movie, Girl Next Door, Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing 1999-Present.

Natalie is thrilled to take part in Foreverman. A Harrington award winning first-year composer at the BMI Lehman-Engle workshop, Natalie is a graduate of the Juilliard School, currently completing a Masters degree in composition at CUNY graduate program. As concert pianist, Natalie made her Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2009 and continues to tour frequently. (see www.natalietenenbaum.com for a full schedule and information) Theater credits include: Evita (Nat’l tour), 42nd Street (Asia), West Side Story (Int’l Tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (Nat’l tour), Les Miserables, 3 Mo’ Divas. Other NY credits include The Black Dahlia (York) and Brain from Planet X (NYMF 2007).

Karl is a music director, vocal coach, arranger and accompanist in and around New York. As a composer, he has penned songs for productions of Brecht's A Man's A Man, Euripides' Alcestis, and Lorca's Yerma. He is currently developing a new musical drama with playwright Becky Goldberg, 210 Amlent Avenue, which will have a workshop September 2012. He has also directed productions of Urinetown, Yerma, and Antigone. Karl holds a Master's in Music Composition from Stony Brook University and will begin doctoral work there this fall. www.karlhinze.com

Marking the 97th production in his vast career, Ferri is thrilled to be working on Foreverman! With a career encompassing everything from musical directing/playing keyboards and orchestrating, to all areas of technical theatre & producing, Stephen has worked everywhere from on/off Broadway, NYMF, White Plains PAC, Westchester Broadway Theatre, to numerous others. Recent credits include musical directing NY Regional Premiere of Next To Normal & Spring Awakening, Party Worth Crashing conducting/orchestrating the Premiere of the 30 piece orchestration of Songs for A New World, and the NY Metro Premiere of EDGES. Other favorite musical direction credits include Legally Blonde, Jekyll & Hyde, Hairspray, Rent & All Shook Up. In his “spare” time you can find Stephen conducting, contracting or playing keyboards in orchestra pits for a variety of shows as well as stage managing & designing productions all around the New York area. Stephen was named one of the “Top People to Watch” in Westchester Magazine’s January 2012 issue, the 2008 recipient of the Helen Hayes Theatre Award for “Achievement in Technical Production”, and the 2007 Pedro “Unsung Hero” Award winner. Currently pursuing a BFA in Theater Design/Tech at Purchase College’s Conservatory of Theater Arts, and is the founder/producer of both the New Musical Theatre Series and the Harrison Summer Theatre.

Andrew is a songwriter, composer, and educator working in film, theatre, and music, and is currently the artistic director and house arranger at Stacks of Wax Productions. Recently he was the musical coordinator for the North American premier of Stephen Schwartz’s My Fairytale (PCPA). Andrew has provided arrangements and orchestrations for the plays T.S. Eliot: The Musical and Edges, as well as contributions to a 30-piece re-orchestration of Songs for a New World. His film music includes the original score to the short film Dream Lover, original songs for Solomon Grundy: Born on a Monday, and arrangements for Thunderstruck (An AC/DC Movie Musical), as well as several other shorts. He has scored two films for Arcadia Creative, including the short musical Cheap Shots, for which he also co-authored the screenplay. Andrew released his solo EP, Disco Institute, in 2010. He holds an undergraduate degree in Studio Composition from Purchase College’s Music Conservatory and is currently in his first year of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Andrew is a founding faculty member of Purchase College’s Songwriting and Teen Voices precollege programs.

Adam is thrilled to be orchestrating Foreverman with Stephen and Andrew! He recently was accepted as a composer at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Adam is currently the music assistant for the T.V. series "Sesame Street," and continues to work as a musical director and pianist throughout the NYC area. As a pianist, Adam was the keyboardist for both the Regional and Broadway productions of 13 The Musical. Most recently, Adam played a benefit concert for The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp (www.holeinthewallgang.org) where he accompanied the children along with celebrities Whoopi Goldberg, Cheyenne Jackson and Alec Baldwin. Adam is very proud to be the Associate Director of Triple Threat Studios (www.3threatstudios.com), which brings Broadway caliber training in Dance, Voice, and Acting to Long Island. Special thanks to mentors Edward Smaldone, Alex Lacamoire, and Bill Sherman.

Sound Design: Maine State Music Theatre 2005-2007 seasons; Little Shop of Horrors (John W. Engleman Theatre); Mud Blossom (Emergency Theatre Project); Get Ready!, Two Trains Running, Waiting to Be Invited (The Ensemble Theatre); Tommy, (The Studio Theatre); Short and Sweets, (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Servant of Two Masters, (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Richard III, Uncle Vanya, Peer Gynt, (Carnegie Mellon University).  Associate/Assistant Design: War Horse, A Free Man of Color, South Pacific, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, When the Rain Stops Falling, The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theater), Death of A Salesman (Barrymore Theatre), Chicago (National Tour), White Christmas (Marquis Theatre), The Homecoming (Cort Theatre) As Engineer: Chicago National Tour (A2); Alley Theatre; Actors’ Theatre of Louisville; Education: B.F.A. Drama, Carnegie Mellon University.

Michael G. Chin is a Fight Master with The Society of American Fight Directors, one of only seventeen people to hold that distinction. He has choreographed on Broadway, Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway and in Regional Theatres around the country. He teaches stage combat on the adjunct level at The Juilliard School, Brooklyn College, Pace University all in New York City and at Muhlenberg College in Allentown PA.

Laura Butchy has dramaturged and directed productions in New York and Western Pennsylvania. Her work with NYMF includes dramaturging Date of a Lifetime, The Incredibly Deaf Musical, My Illustrious Wasteland, The Hatpin, The Yellow Wood, and Austentatious. Other New York dramaturgy work:  Welcome to the Friendly Tripbox and In Praise of Folly: The Don Quixote Project (Peculiar Works Project), Once Upon a Pandora’s Box (The New Acting Company), West Pier (Ohio Theater), and Herakles (Chashama). She earned her MFA in dramaturgy at Columbia University and has written for American Theatre, FringeNYC Propaganda, and other publications. As a teaching artist, she has directed productions for New York City students from kindergarten through college.

Aislinn is quite excited to make her NYMF debut with Foreverman. Her last major project involved wrangling one hundred performers in Jimmy Maize’s beautiful adaptation of Spoon River Anthology, but other recent credits include A Weimar Flute with Morningside Opera, The Total Bent at the Public Theater, a developmental lab of Rocky – Das Musical, IBM’s Centennial Gala, and Before Placing Me On Your Shelf with Lunar Energy Productions. She’s also stage managed numerous productions at Columbia Stages as an MFA candidate in Stage Management (anticipated October 2012). Upcoming projects include a trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Drop It and By Rights We Should Be Giants with Lunar Energy in the fall. Aislinn is a proud native of Brooklyn and graduate of Bowdoin College (AB in Classics and Theater).

Amanda is excited to be making her NYMF debut with Foreverman! Off Broadway: Medieval Play, Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque (Signature Theatre); In Transit (Primary Stages). Regional: Disney’s High School Musical 2, The Music Man, Joseph... Dreamcoat, The Producers, Little Shop of Horrors, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 42nd Street, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), RENT, Grease, The Odd Couple, I Do! I Do!, All Hands on Deck, Plaid Tidings (Surflight Theatre), Foreplays 2011 (FullStop Collective). Amanda is a graduate of the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management at Oklahoma City University. Love and thanks to Mom, Dad, and the rest of the family!

Since 1996, Donald has bounced all over the musical theatre world as a performer, choreographer, writer, director and teacher. He has performed in over 30 professional productions (Regional, National Tours, and Off-Broadway.) As a writer/composer, he is best known as co-author of Casual Bob and Show Choir! - The Musical (2007 at FringeNYC, 2010 at NYMF, 2011 at Edinburgh Fringe, and 2012 at American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.) Notable choreography credits include Before God Was Invented: A Prehistoric Pagan Parable and Siren’s Heart (Off-Broadway) Special thanks to Stephen and the company of Foreverman. 

Tom has had a varied career in the illustrious industry of theater, having served in various producing, general management, production, and marketing positions over the past six years. Currently, Tom works full time in marketing at Blue Man Group while maintaining a solid roster of independent projects. Most recently, he served as Producer of Ready for the Change at the Duplex Cabaret Theater, Associate Producer of Hello, My Name is Billy at the 2011 FringeNYC Festival, and Marketing Director for Camp Wanatachi at La MaMa E.T.C. Other credits include Three Movements at Theater Row, Does the Body Good and The Last Silver Zephyer at FringeNYC, and The New Hopeville Comics at the 45th Street Theater. Prior to his current job at Blue Man Group, Tom worked full-time in international production at Disney Theatrical Group and has now begun to dabble in the film world. Currently, he is working on the film adaptation of Marc Acito’s novel, How I Paid for College.

Steven Chaikelson and Kendra Bator provide general management services for productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and across the United States. Credits include, Broadway: Ring of Fire; Elaine Stritch at Liberty (Tony® Award); George Gershwin Alone; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Death of a Salesman (Tony® Award); The Price and Fool Moon (Tony® Award); Off-Broadway: 3C; Elective Affinities (starring Zoe Caldwell); Slipping; Too Much Memory; Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn; Evil Dead The Musical; Almost, Maine; The Normal Heart; They Wrote That: The Songs of Mann & Weil; The Tricky Part (Obie Award); Private Jokes, Public Places; Peter Brook’s Tierno Bokar and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (RSC); National Tour/Regional: Trumbo (starring Brian Dennehy); Fool Moon; The Vagina Monologues (Los Angeles) and Art (Chicago); International: Where Elephants Weep (Cambodia). Steven teaches in the Theatre Program of the Columbia University School of the Arts where he directs the MFA concentration in Theatre Management & Producing.

Michael has produced over 60 shows since his arrival in NYC in September 2002. Michael is also a serial entrepreneur having founded Small Pond Enterprises LLC, The Independent Producers Alliance of NY, and PLAE - Program For Launching Arts Entrepreneurs. Michael was an associate producer of ROOMS: A Rock Romance Off-Broadway and a producer with R2D2 Productions on the Broadway production of The Scottsboro Boys. He holds a BA in Secondary Ed English and Theatre Performance from Rhode Island College as well as an MA from NYU in Educational Theatre Colleges and Communities. Michael also taught English and Drama for eight years at LaSalle Academy on New York City's Lower East Side and has served on the board of Theater Resources Unlimited and currently sits on the board of Boomerang Theatre Company as well as Shotgun productions. He blogs daily at www.oneproducerinthecity.typepad.com and is available to speak or run a workshop by emailing smallpondenterprises@gmail.com.