Production Bios – Any Night

Production Bios – Any Night STARRY NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT – Presenters Starry Night Entertainment is a bi-coastal film and theatre company run by Craig Saavedra and Michael Shulman. Recent stage credits include MISTAKES WERE MADE starring Michael Shannon at the Barrow Street Theatre, the New York premiere of WHITE PEOPLE at Atlantic Theater Company, and an investor in the Broadway revival of John Guare’s HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES starring Ben Stiller and Edie Falco. Recent feature films include SHERMAN’S WAY. Shulman’s acting credits include Fox’s PARTY OF FIVE, HBO’S SOMEONE HAD TO BE BENNY (Emmy nom), and Disney’s RECESS. Saavedra’s producing/directing credits include RHAPSODY IN BLOOM, CLOSER AND CLOSER, and AT FIRST SIGHT. Upcoming projects include the reality series THE BROADWAY KIDS, and the feature PONZI’S SCHEME with Jean Doumanian Productions. www.starrynightentertainment.com THE BRIDGE THEATRE COMPANY – Associate Producers Founded in 2004, The Bridge Theatre Company is a New York City-based organization that produces, workshops, and champions new Canadian work. Dedicated to cross-border development between Canada and the US, the company examines the relationship between these two contemporary theatrical cultures through the work of emerging playwrights, actors and directors. As founding members and co-Artistic Producers of the Bridge, Esther Barlow and Dustin Olson have produced and developed 10 productions, 15 workshops, and countless readings of new work by both emerging and established Canadian playwrights, including Ken Cameron, David Carley, Trevor Ferguson, Kate Hewlett, Marcia Johnson, T.J Dawe, Oonagh Duncan, Michael Rubenfeld, David West Read, Nicolas Billon, and Matthew MacKenzie. For more information: www.thebridgetheatrecompany.org RON JENKINS – Director, Dramaturge Residing in Edmonton Alberta, Ron is the former Artistic Director of Edmonton’s Workshop West Theatre and is a freelance director. He has received ten Edmonton Sterling Awards as a director and producer, most recently for his play Extinction Song, and received a Betty Mitchell Award for Direction of The Black Rider, and a Vancouver Jessie nomination for his direction of Any Night. His production of BASH’D won a New York GLAAD Award, played Off-Broadway for 3 months, and continues to tour, and his touring production of The Black Rider won Outstanding Production in Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver. In 2007 and 2010 Ron was shortlisted as a director for the Siminovitch Prize, Canada’s most prestigious theatre award. His recent credits include: True Love Lies (Citadel), The Trespassers (Belfry/Playhouse), 1984 (Cultch), Nisei Blue (ATP), If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Rich (MTYP), Romeo & Juliet (UofA), Extinction Song and Forbidden Phoenix (Citadel), An Inspector Calls (Vertigo Theatre). For Workshop West: 17 Dogs, Mary’s Wedding, Apple, Mesa, and Respectable. Other directing credits include: Confessions of a Paper Boy (Ghost River Theatre), The Black Rider (November Theatre Co.), The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) and The Blue Light (Alberta Theatre Projects), What the Butler Saw (Studio Theatre), Steel Kiss, Eureka, and The Horror, The Horror (Skid), Liars (MTYP) and Burt (Shadow Theatre). DANIEL ARNOLD – PATRICK, Playwright, Co-producer A graduate of the University of Alberta’s Conservatory Acting program, one of Canada’s premiere acting programs, Daniel also took scriptwriting at the University of Alberta, Workshop West, the National Screen Institute, and under mentorship with Sharon Pollock. He has performed on numerous stages across Canada and internationally garnering two Edmonton Sterling Awards, two more nominations, and three Vancouver Jessie nominations as an actor. His written work includes Not with a Bang… (Edmonton Theatre Theatre); Lookout (Workshop West); and the short films The Janitors, co-written/directed with Matthew Kowalchuk (NSI Drama Prize, VIFF, EIFF, CIFF, Hollywood Film Fest) and War with Ricki and Rich (National Screen Institute). He co-wrote Tuesdays & Sundays, Clear Sunny Day, and Any Night with Medina Hahn, and is adapting two plays into feature films: his own Any Night, and Morris Panych’s Lawrence & Holloman. With Medina Hahn, he is the protégé recipient of Canada’s most prestigious theatre award, The Siminovitch Prize. MEDINA HAHN – ANNA, Playwright, Co-producer Medina holds two performance degrees in acting and is a graduate of the University of Victoria Theatre program and University of Alberta's Conservatory Acting program. An award-wining actress, she has performed on numerous stages throughout Canada, in New Mexico, San Francisco, New York City and in Scotland and the Czech Republic. Also a writer, Medina came to play creation after working extensively as an actor on new Canadian plays. She co-wrote Tuesdays & Sundays, Clear Sunny Day and Any Night with Daniel Arnold and she is currently adapting Any Night into a feature film. With Daniel Arnold, she is the protégé recipient of Canada's most prestigious theatre award, The Siminovitch Prize. Next up, Medina will perform onstage in Pinter's Betrayal and appear onscreen in the feature film Faces In The Crowd. BRIAN LINDS – Voiceover Recent acting includes: August:Osage County, Patron Saint of Stanley Park, It’s A Wonderful Life (Arts Club Theatre), As You Like It, Death of a Salesman (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre), Urinetown, Art, Patience (Belfry Theatre). Sound designs include: No Exit (Electric Theatre Company-American Conservatory Theatre), 1984 (Virtual Stage), Palace of the End (Touchstone Theatre), August:Osage County, History Boys (Arts Club Theatre), The Trespassers, True West (Vancouver Playhouse), The Violet Hour, The Turn of the Screw (Belfry Theatre), A Doll’s House (Chemainus Theatre Festival). DAVID FRASER – Lighting Designer David is a Canadian based artist who works extensively in theatre, dance and opera. His theatrical designs have been seen in regional theatres from one side of the country to the other, and more recently delving into the world of Opera, he has designed Lucia di Lammermoor with the Vancouver Opera, and Otello with the Edmonton Opera. As the resident designer with the Brian Webb Dance Company for the last twelve years he has premiered and toured numerous productions in Canada. Other dance credits include the international tour of Azul Abierto with Edmonton, Alberta based Choreographer Tania Alvarado. He has been nominated for multiple theatrical design awards, has been the recipient once of a Sterling Award in Edmonton Alberta for outstanding lighting design, and was nominated for a Vancouver Jessie Award for his design of Any Night. David is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. GORD HEAL – Sound Designer Currently floating somewhere in the Mediterranean, Gord occupies his time touring the globe as a Sound Technician/ Head Sound and Light Technician for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. He graduated as a multiple President's Scholarship award winner from the University of Victoria in 2007, with a BFA majoring in Theatre and Art History. While attending UVic, he designed sound for many mainstage shows including Richard III, Metamorphoses, and That Elusive Spark. His design for Morris Panych's Ends of the Earth (Belfry) received a Victoria Critic's Choice nomination and he was also nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for his design of Any Night. PETER POKORNY – Set & Prop Designer Peter studied at The College of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. He spent the last decade working at the Belfry Theatre, Victoria B.C. as a Scenic Carpenter and Head of Props. His Set design credits include, “Good Timber”, “Moodyville Tales” (The Other Guys Theatre Co.), “Eyes on the Mountain” (Opera Studio, Victoria BC), “Hair”, “The Fantasticks”, “West Side Story”, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Capitol Theatre, Nelson, BC). ERIN MACKLEM – Costume Designer Erin is a West Coast designer and writer, and Artistic Associate for Victoria’s Belfry Theatre. Design highlights include Influence (Intrepid Theatre); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Arts Club Theatre); Urinetown: The Musical, Turn of the Screw (The Belfry Theatre); Peter Pan, Anne of Green Gables (Kaleidoscope Theatre); Cariboo Buckaroo, [sic], Unity 1918 (Theatre SKAM); Proof (Sunshine Theatre); The Adventures of Pinocchio (Story Theatre); Shirley Valentine (TheatreOne); The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Regina (Pacific Opera Victoria); and Mother Courage and her Children (Caravan Farm Theatre). She has a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria. LAURA KREWSKI – Movement Coach Laura is an instructor and choreographer based in Edmonton, Alberta. Laura has recently choreographed The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Belfry Theatre and Vancouver Arts Club), the original musicals Hunchback, Frankenstein (Catalyst Theatre) and Nevermore which recently toured to the Barbican and New Victory Theater, Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore (Edmonton Opera), The Forbidden Phoenix and As You Like It (Citadel Theatre), the new musical RICH (Manitoba Theatre for Young People), Footloose (The Mayfield). Laura also choreographed and produced FreeFall and Jazz Playground for her company Freefall Dance. She has taught and choreographed for Orchesis Dance Group at the University of Alberta, the Citadel/Banff Theatre Program, Edmonton Festival Ballet, Edmonton Contemporary Dancers, Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts, and Canadian College of Performing Arts. JENNIFER SWAN – Stage Manager Originally from Victoria BC, Jen

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