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Molly Miles (Producer)
presently runs MollyMilesManagement, a literary management company for
feature films and television. She most recently co-produced Greenway
Arts Alliance’s World Premiere of “Hercules On Normandie,” written by
James Eric and Mark Kemble, which had an extended run at the Greenway
Court Theatre. Prior posts have included serving as: Mediator for
MediationPartners; Chief Executive Officer for MEDIAWEBCAST; Chief
Executive Officer of The Miss Universe Organization; Senior Vice
President – Recreation Division for MCA Inc./Universal Studios;
Independent Producer for Irish Lass Productions (“Truth Or
Consequences,” “Kids Songs,” “Comedy Break,” videos for Pat Benatar,
Stevie Nicks, Hall & Oates and Diana Ross); and Director of Programming
Production for HBO, working with artists such as: Fleetwood Mac, Liza
Minnelli, George Carlin, Paul Simon, Pee Wee Herman, Billy Crystal and
Steve Martin. Miles hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Colorado
State University and she is an Accredited Mediator. She resides in
Hollywood, CA.
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John C. Mooney (Producer)
“Bad Hurt On Cedar Street” marks the third collaboration between John C.
Mooney and Mark Kemble. Mooney and his Right Time Productions produced
the World Premiere of Kemble’s play, “Names,” at the Matrix Theatre in
Los Angeles. The production received numerous awards, including:
Drama-Logue/Back Stage West Garland Awards for Best Ensemble and Best
Play, an LA Weekly Award for Best Ensemble and a Los Angeles Drama
Critics Award nomination for Best Ensemble. Right Time Productions went
on to partner with esteemed New York producer, Daryl Roth, to bring
“Names” to New York for a successful Off-Broadway run at the American
Jewish Theatre. Mooney, also an accomplished actor, originated the
central role of John Garfield in the Matrix production of “Names” and
continued essaying the part in the New York production.
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Victoria Bellocq (Set Designer, Photography and Design)
was born and educated in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a Masters
Degree in Fine Arts and Set Design. Her work in set design and opera has
been critically acclaimed in her native Buenos Aires, Argentina, France
and the U.S. She received (with James Eric) an NAACP Award for
Production Design for “Permanent Collection,” as well as an LA Weekly
nomination for Best Set Design in 2005. Her other Set Designer credits
include: “Banned and Burned in America” (Greenway Court Theatre); “Whale
Music” (Coronet Theatre); “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine” (Stella
Adler Theatre); “Body and Soul” (Edge Festival), “Permanent Collection”
(Kirk Douglas Theatre), the workshop production of “Bad Hurt On Cedar
Street” (The Tiffany Theatre), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Opera –
Ruines des Fourviere, France), “Joan of Arc” (Opera Argentina) and
“Woyzec” (Opera Argentina).
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Pierson Blaetz
(Co-Founder, Greenway Arts Alliance and Co-Artistic Director of Greenway
Court Theatre)
is Co-Founder of both Greenway Arts Alliance and The Melrose Trading
Post, a swap meet held every Sunday at Fairfax High School. The Trading
Post is currently the most successful ongoing fundraiser in the history
of Los Angeles Unified School District. Pierson also serves as
Co-Artistic Director for the Greenway Court Theatre. He has been a
founding member of three other theatre projects, The Men’s Project in
New York City, Hard City Theatre in Dallas and the Asylum Theatre
Company in Los Angeles. His other work with nonprofits includes the
founding of Free Time, a volunteer placement service established after
the Los Angeles Riots. Pierson has produced, acted and directed in over
40 productions. His co-producing awards include the 2001 Los Angeles
Drama Critics Circle Award, an LA Weekly Award and Back Stage West’s
Garland Award for Best Production, “They Shoot Horses Don’t They?” He
was also nominated for the NAACP Best Production Award for “For the Love
of Freedom-Toussaint.” He won a Drama-Logue Award for Best Actor in
“Beggars in the House of Plenty” at The Theatre at the Improv. Pierson
is also
Co-Producer of Da’ Poetry Lounge, a collection of works by spoken word
artists. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.
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Darin Dahms - Production
Manager
has a B.A. degree in Acting from Indiana
University and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of South
Carolina. Last fall Dahms produced, co-directed and performed “Someone
Who’ll Watch Over Me” by Frank McGuinness at Greenway Court Theatre. In
July 2006 he traveled with a long time friend, Soenke Weiss, to Africa,
where he interviewed children involved in the bloody, 21-year-old
conflict in the northern part of Uganda. A play, entitled, “Child
Soldier,” based on this experience, will be co-authored and directed by
Dahms later in 2007 at Greenway Court Theatre.
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James Eric (Set Designer and Artist-In-Residence at Greenway Court
Theatre)
began his career in film, where he met and began to work with
distinguished director, John Cassavetes. With over 40 years of
experience in theatre and film, Eric has built numerous theatres here in
Los Angeles, including The Matrix Theatre on Melrose Avenue, which he
founded in 1975 with his partner and Technical Director, John Wright.
They both lived in the Matrix Theatre for five years in lofts
overlooking the theatre. They lived on $50 a week, and during that time
co-produced, designed and directed around 30 original plays. By 1980,
Eric and Wright had moved out of the theatre when producer Joe Stern
purchased it. He then built the Court Theatre on La Cienega Avenue,
along with several other people. Around this time Eric also became
involved in a Cassavetes project called “Three Plays of Love and Hate,”
at which time he found a space in a warehouse and converted it into what
was called the Center Theatre. Actors involved with the plays included:
Gena Rolands, Peter Falk, Jon Voight and a cast of 200 actors. With Jon
Voight, Eric built the Access Theatre in Silverlake. Voight directed,
and Eric produced, along with Nancy Bishop, who is now the publisher of
Venice Magazine. Eric then co-wrote and directed a 16mm black and while
screenplay, entitled “A Rumor of Angles,” which he wrote with his
partner, Jamie Horton. The film featured Vanessa Redgrave and Ray Liotta.
Eric also redesigned the interior of the Actors Studio West, of which he
is a lifetime member. After a period of severe illness from the AIDS
virus, he was contacted by Pierson Blaetz, one of the Co-Founders of
Greenway Arts Alliance, who was starting the Melrose Trading Post on the
Fairfax High School campus with his partner and Co-Founder of Greenway
Arts Alliance, Whitney Weston.
Eric then designed
the Greenway Court Theatre which opened its doors in January 2000 with
the World Premiere of José Rivera’s “Sonnets For An Old Century.” He is
now an Artist-In-Residence at Greenway Court Theatre. His theatre
credits include: “Hercules On Normandie” (Co-Director and Co-Writer) for
Greenway Court Theatre; “All Good Soldiers in the West Wind” (Production
Designer/Director) for Greenway Court Theatre; “Permanent Collection”
(Co-Production Designer with Victoria Bellocq) for the Kirk Douglas
Theatre, for which they won and NAACP Award for Production Design;
“Mustard” (Director/Designer at The Matrix Theatre); “Robeson, A Life”
(Producer/Designer at The Matrix Theatre); “Great American Backstage
Musical” (Producer at The Matrix Theatre); “West Side Story”
(Director/Designer) and “Irma La Douce” (Director/Designer), both at the
Off Broadway Theater in Long Beach; “Bricklayer’s Poet” (Director for
The Actors Studio); “Three Plays of Love and Hate” written by John
Cassavetes (Producer/Designer at the Center Theatre); “Last Lucid
Moment” directed by Jon Voight (Producer/Designer at the Access Theater)
and “A Woman of Mystery” written and directed by John Cassavetes
(Producer/Designer at the Court Theater). Eric is a member of The Actors
Studio and resides in West Hollywood, CA.
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J. Kent Inasy (Lighting
Designer)
is a multi-award recipient for his work in Los Angeles theatre. His
recent credits include: “Our Lady of 121st Street” at the Matrix
Theatre; “Leipzig” with Salome Jens at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre; “Zero
Hour” at the Egyptian Arena Theater; “Little Egypt” at the Matrix
Theater; “Equinox” at the Odyssey Theater; “If You Get to Bethlehem….”
with Mariette Hartley at the Whitefire Theater; and “Jesus’ Kid Brother”
and “A Nervous Smile” at International City Theater. Across the country
Inasy has designed shows at Lincoln Center in New York; Ford’s Theatre
in Washington D.C.; Cuello Center in West Palm Beach; The Pasadena
Playhouse in Southern California; Life on the Water and the Cable Car
Theaters in San Francisco; and, The American Repertory Theater in
Cambridge, MA. He is also an accomplished cinematographer with many
television and film projects to his credit. He is a resident of Los
Angeles, CA.
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Steve Moyer Public Relations (Show Press Agent; Publicity/Marketing)
Prior to starting his own company, previous posts included: Universal
Studios Hollywood, where he worked in New Business Development, and
Paramount Pictures where he was involved with the marketing of 13
feature films, including “Titanic,” and the booking of audiences for 20
television shows, including “Frasier,” “Dharma and Greg” and “Becker.”
At Williamstown Theatre Festival he promoted 41 productions, including
14 World Premieres, including the record breaking 40th Anniversary
Season. Moyer had a long affiliation with the late playwright Arthur
Miller, working with him on the first American Revival in 55 years of
“The Man Who Had All The Luck,” the 50th Anniversary production of “All
My Sons” and the American Premiere of “The Ride Down Mt. Morgan,” all of
which played on Broadway. Other major productions Moyer has promoted
which played on Broadway or Off-Broadway include: the World Premieres of
“George Gershwin Alone,” “Back From Broadway” (Lincoln Center), “Keats,”
“Dinah Was” and “The Moonlight Room” (originally produced by The Group
at Strasberg), as well as the West Coast Premieres of “TAPE,” “Worldly
Acts,” “Confidentially Cole” and “THE OHMIES!” Recent regional theatre
credits include: “Theatre of Operations – Companion One Acts” including
“THE SAND STORM: Stories From The Front” by Sean Huze and “Necessary
Targets” by Eve Ensler; “Intimate Apparel” by Lynn Nottage; and the
World Premieres of the musical comedies, “One Way Ticket To Hell” by
Robert Cioffi and Drew Taylor and “The Brain From Planet X” by Bruce
Kimmel and David Wechter. In 2001 Moyer was inducted into the
International Edition of “Who’s Who of Professionals” in the world. In
2002 he was interviewed and filmed by multiple Academy Award-winning
producer/director/sound designer, Ron Judkins (“Saving Private Ryan,”
“Schindler’s List,” “Jurassic Park”) for a television documentary on the
promotion of theatre in America. In addition to theatre, Moyer is
actively involved in promoting a wide assortment of other entertainment
related projects and events.
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Crystal M. Munson (Stage
Manager)
is stage-managing her first production for Greenway Arts. Originally
from the Washington, D.C. area, Munson had been working with the
American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA as the Guest Services
Manager for the past year before moving to California. She has also
stage managed at Theatre40 for “Another Part of the Forest” and “We Will
Never Be Young Again” (taken to the Kirk Douglas Theatre). Besides
managing, she enjoys set design, make-up design and application,
directing, acting, and continues to explore the many facets of theatre.
Her next step is to enter the film industry and learn all it has to
offer.
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Marc Olevin (Sound Designer)
counts among his credits: “We’ll Never be Young Again” (The Kirk Douglas
Theatre); “The Norman Conquests,” “On the Verge,” “The Green Room,”
“Roar of the Crowd,” “The Constant Wife,” “Enigma Variations,” “The Lion
in Winter,” “Chekhov in Yalta,” “The Substance of Fire,” and
“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” (Theatre40); “Soundings” (Odyssey
Theatre Ensemble, assistant); and “The Manor” (Greystone Mansion). He
has also served as Sound Engineer for productions of “Dear Liar,”
“Little Murders,” “The Gin Game,” “I Do! I Do!,” and “Over the River.”
Olevin is also a photographer and graphic designer.
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Whitney Weston (Co-Founder, Greenway Arts Alliance and Co-Artistic
Director of Greenway Court Theatre)
is both Co-Founder of Greenway Arts Alliance and The Melrose Trading
Post, a swap meet held every Sunday at Fairfax High School. As an actor
and producer, she has over 30 credits for Greenway Arts Alliance and
other companies. She has served on the Board of the Fairfax Business
Association, and is currently Board Secretary of the Fairfax Parents and
Friends Foundation. Greenway Court Theatre’s presentation of the World
Premiere of “For The Love of Freedom, A Trilogy by Levy Lee Simon, Part
1: Toussaint (The Soul): Rise and Revolution,” which she co-produced,
was nominated for a 2001 NAACP Theatre Award. Greenway Arts Alliance
presentation of “They Shoot Horses Don’t They?,” which she co-produced,
won Best Production at the 2001 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.
Weston is a resident of Los Angeles, CA.
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Leeann Johnson (Costume
Designer)
has over 15 years experience as a personal stylist and fashion
consultant. She studied at the highly acclaimed Pratt Fine Arts
Institute, located in her hometown of Seattle, Washington. Prior to
that, she was enrolled in the Fashion and Marketing program as an
undergraduate at Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington. While living
in the Northwest, Johnson was responsible for the personal styling of
many high-end clients. She was employed as a personal shopper through
her affiliation with such notable stores as Nordstrom’s, Bon Marche,
Bebe and Macy’s. She relocated to Los Angeles to pursue her career as a
Wardrobe Stylist in Film, Theatre and Television. She recently served in
that capacity in the just completed movie, “Breaking the Rules,” written
by The Tonight Show’s John Melendez, and directed by Michael De Lorenzo,
formerly of “New York Undercover.” She has also served as a wardrobe
consultant for the Fox Sports Network, where she was responsible for
clothing selections of on-air talent.
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