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Brian Clowdus (IG:@brianclowdus)(IG:@bcexperiences)has been breaking boundaries in the theatre industry since the offset of his career, making a national name for himself by producing shows that do so much more than just tell a story. They immerse audiences for experiences in the most unique site-specific locations that are all-consuming, mesmerizing, and compelling. He’s bringing his vision to the wider world, offering to consult and create custom productions for businesses, communities, and events. Brian Clowdus is the CEO of Brian Clowdus Experiences, which is taking his environmental work all across the country, expanding at an unprecedented rate. Brian is also the Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of Serenbe Playhouse, the nation’s premiere outdoor site-specific theatre company which was recently named One of the Top 20 Theatres in the Nation by Playbill. He has performed and directed in Tokyo, London, Canada, Central and South America, The Caribbean, NYC, LA, and in almost every other major city in the United States. Brian was named the Top Artistic Director in Atlanta and one of the Top 20 Atlantans to Watch by Creative Loafing, one of the Top 15 Atlantans Under 40 by Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles Magazines, one of the Top 40 Under 40 by Georgia Trend, one of the Most Eligible Bachelors in Atlanta by Jezebel Magazine, one of the Most Influential Atlantans in the Entertainment Industry by Men’s Book Atlanta, and most recently one of Atlanta’s 500 Most Powerful Leaders by Atlanta Magazine.

Andy Wolk (andywolkdirector.com)IMDB(@AndyWolk)Began his writing and directing career with the much-lauded HBO movie CRIMINAL JUSTICE that made Time Magazine's "Ten Best" List.   Starring Forest Whitaker, Anthony LaPaglia and Rosie Perez,CRIMINAL JUSTICE received the Silver Prize at FIPA in Cannes and was named Best Cable Movie of the year.  Whitaker, LaPaglia, and Perez were all nominated for acting awards and Mr. Wolk was nominated for the WRITER'S GUILD AWARD.  He received the WRITER'S GUILD AWARD for writing NATICA JACKSON on PBS which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. He has been nominated for the DIRECTORS GUILD AWARD twice and also the CABLEFAX AWARD as Best Director for episodes of LINCOLNHEIGHTS.  He has directed numerous episodes of shows such as THE SOPRANOS, DAMAGES (for which Glenn Close won an EMMY AWARD), and THE PRACTICE including the "Final Judgement" episode for which Alfre Woodard received the EMMY AWARD and Mr. Wolk and David Kelley received the HUMANITAS AWARD.  He recently directed the acclaimed UGLY BETTY episode that featured the coming out kiss between two 15-year-old boys.  He also directed the pilot of the long-running HBO comedy hit ARLISS (a show he developed).  Other shows include DEFIANCE, UNFORGETTABLE, RIZZOLI AND ISLES, CRIMINAL MINDS, IN PLAIN SIGHT, GOSSIP GIRL, THE CARRIE DIARIES, CHASING LIFE, , NECESSARY ROUGHNESS, , HART OF DIXIE, NUMBERS, WITHOUT A TRACE, WITCHES OF EAST END, THE CLIENT LIST, FAIRLY LEGAL, NYPD BLUE, MEDIUM, HELLCATS, HAWTHORNE, TRUST ME,  DAY BREAK. HEIST, CLOSE TO HOME and TALES FROM THE CRYPT. He has been writer and director on many legal-themed movies including DELIBERATE INTENT, the critically praised 1st movie ever for FX.  Starring Timothy Hutton, the LA Times called it "taut, smart, provocative, well-acted and suspensefully directed."  Again for DELIBERATE INTENT, Mr. Wolk was nominated for the WRITER'S GUILD AWARD. Mr. Wolk  has also directed and written the acclaimed FIGHTING THE ODDS for LIFETIME, THE DEFENDERS: PAYBACK, CHOICE OF EVILS and TAKING THE FIRST, three highly-rated movies for Paramount and Showtime starring Beau Bridges, Martha Plimpton, and E.G. Marshall and based on the classic 60s show. He directed 4 hit CBS movies: WHEN ANGELS COME TO TOWNstarring Peter Falk and Katey Sagal; FINDING JOHN CHRISTMASstarring Peter Falk and Valerie Bertinelli; THE CHRISTMAS SHOES starring Rob Lowe and Kimberly Williams; and A TOWN WITHOUT CHRISTMAS which was the highest-rated movie on television and featured Patricia Heaton and Peter Falk.  Other movies he has directed include PIZZA MY HEART, MR. ROCK 'N' ROLL, ALIBI, ALL LIES END IN MURDER, KISS AND TELL, and A STRANGER'S HEART.

Mr. Wolk's other writing credits include HBO's Emmy-winning FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, produced by Tom Hanks, and the award-winning TALES FROM THE CRYPT starring Demi Moore.   He has written features for Miramax, Paramount,Tri-Star, UA, MGM, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, and AVCO Embassy plus pilots for Fox, ABC, and SHOWTIME.

Mr. Wolk's career started in the theater.  He directed Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT and THE WINTER'S TALE, each of which had successful Off-Broadway run under the auspices of Lincoln Center Institute and he has directed at  Manhattan Theatre Club (where he worked on staff for five years).   His play OUT OF THIS FURNACE was just revived in Pittsburgh and another play, STRINGS SNAPPING (about Chekhov's life) has just been workshopped in Los Angeles. 

Mr. Wolk is on the faculty of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.  He has been a Creative Advisor at the Sundance Institute's Screenwriting Lab and has also taught Screenwriting at the University of Pennsylvania.  He has an MFA from the School of Drama at Carnegie-Mellon University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded the Thouron Scholarship.

Trinity Wheeler IG(@trinityonbroadway)Executive Producer. Broadway: Les Misérables (Production Stage Manager). National Tours: Executive Producer credits include Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, Finding Neverland, Dirty Dancing, Bullets Over Broadway, Elf the Musical, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; The Phantom of the Opera (Supervisory Production Stage Manager), Les Misérables (Production Stage Manager), Mary Poppins (Production Stage Manager); Young Frankenstein starring Roger Bart and Rent starring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp. Trinity currently works on the national tours of Les Misérables, Once On This Island, Waitress, The SpongeBob Musical, Chicago and the upcoming Diane Paulus-helmed 1776. He is the host of Rhapsody Radio available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Alex Joseph Grayson IG (@alexjgsings) IG(@alexjgstrong) is an actor, musician, and athlete.

Theatre credits include: Once on This Island (1st National tour), Toni Stone (Off- Broadway), A Bronx Tale (Broadway). Regional: Spring Awakening, The Color Purple, Choir Boy, Zuccotti Park. He has endless gratitude for his teachers and mentors: Matthew Corozine Studios; SUNY Fredonia TADA; Stella Adler Conservatory. 

 

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Ken (kbany.com) has designed nearly 100 Broadway productions including Act One, Chaplin, Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway, The Scottsboro Boys, Sondheim on Sondheim, [Title of Show], The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe starring Lily Tomlin, Footloose, Candide(1997), Annie (1997), Annie Warbucks, Inherit the Wind, Moon Over Buffalo, The Red Shoes, Fiddler on the Roof (1990, 81,76), Lettice and Lovage, Tru, Meet Me in St. Louis, On the 20th Century, Side by Side by Sondheim among others. He has been honored with seven Tony award nominations and received the 1997 Tony Award for his work on Chicago. His Tony nominations include: Sunday in the Park with George(2008), The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), End of the World (1984), Foxfire(1982), Sweeney Todd (1979), Working (1978), and The Visit (1973). For a complete list of Broadway shows go to www.idbd.com.

Off-Broadway he has many productions to his credit including Nikolai and the Others, Fame, The Thing About Men, Sylvia, London Suite, Annie Warbucks, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Lisbon Traviata, Snoopy and Fortune in Men’s Eyes. For a more complete list go to www.lortel.org/lla_archive

Ken works in all forms of theatrical lighting including opera, dance, concerts and spectaculars. 13 productions for the NY City Opera including: Candide, the American premiers of Silverlake, The Voice of Ariadne and Ashmedai. For the Houston Grand Opera 31 productions including the world premier of Willie Stark and Aida for the opening of the Worthem Center Brown Theatre. Other companies include Dallas Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, La Scala, Theatro Real in Madrid and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.

Some of the great entertainers that Ken has lit include Hugh Jackman, Ann-Margret, Shirley MacLane, Liberace, Sigfried and Roy, Juliet Prowse, Chita Rivera and Lisa Minelli to name just a few.

For 27 years the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular had lighting by Ken Billington as well as the annual Easter Show. Other spectaculars include the relighting of Jubilee at Bally’s Las Vegas in 2004, Fantasmic! at Disneyland, Shamu Night shows at the Seaworld Parks and Illuminights at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

Ken has been received many awards including the Ace Award for Television Lighting, the Luman Award for Architectural Lighting and many theatre awards including the Tony, NY Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics and Boston Drama Critics, to name a few.

Kennedy (IG:@kennedycaughell) was raised on a small Oklahoma ranch with her parents, older sister Caitlyn, and a plethora of animals!  She was never afraid to try something new, playing instruments, singing at many events, and earning her black belt in Tang Soo Do. She made the switch from country ninja to stage star playing the title role of Annie on both coasts! Her love for theatre and film only grew as she performed throughout high school and in her BFA Music Theatre training at Elon University.  Shortly after graduating, Kennedy performed across the nation and abroad as Heather in American Idiot.  Since then, she has been seen in multiple regional theatres and New York's own NYMF Festival.  Most recently Kennedy traveled the country by broomstick in the National tour of Wicked,  covering Elphaba. With her dog Moose by her side, she now resides in New York City where she occasionally teaches, and performs in various shows and concerts at 54 Below, the Laurie Beechman, and the Duplex.  Kennedy is grateful to all the people who brought her here, God, family, friends, teachers, and pets who never let her give up on her dream.

Steve Rosen (IG:@stevierosen) is currently co-authoring the musical adaptation of The Secret of My Success for Universal, world-premiering at the Paramount Theater in Chicago in 2020. With Gordon Greenberg, Rosen has written Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG Playhouse Christmas Show, performed at Bucks County Playhouse (2017, 2018, and upcoming 2019) and The Old Globe (scheduled 2019). Together they also penned The Curious Case of the Curse of Count Dracula, a farcical five-person comedic retelling of the classic horror story, premiering this October at the Maltz-Jupiter Theater. Rosen has worked extensively as a performer on stage and screen. He currently plays recurring roles on NBC’s Law and Order: SVU, Fox’s The Resident and has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his performance in THE OTHER JOSH COHEN as well as a Lucille Lortel Award for his performance in Pretty Filthy for The Civilians. He also originated principal roles in the original Broadway companies of MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT, Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention and the 2009 revival of Guys & Dolls.

Robert Horn (TW:@rhorn1) wrote the books for 13 The Musical, Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical, LoneStar Love and Dame Edna, Back With A Vengeance. He’s written, created and produced such tv series as “Designing Women,” “Living Single,” “High Society” and “Partners.” He has contributed to large scale events such as Bette Midler’s Divine Intervention tour; and had production deals at Warner Brothers, Sony and ABC Studios. Films include "Teen Beach" Movies 1 & 2, "Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure", "Wildlife", and "Good Advice". Recently, he teamed up with Tony-winning MTI author David Yazbek to collaborate on the new muscial Tootsie, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.

Clayton Howe (IG: @inclaynation) for this episode I riff on No thank you, we're not doing that. A wonderful phrase introduced to me by my best friend, Nakiya Peterkin (Ep.001 on this show.) This is a phrase I think many of us can benefit from as we constantly receive negative self talk from ourselves or just behavior from others. I hope some or all of this resonate with you!! Enjoy!