Bruce Ellman 231 Goldenrain Dr., Apt. 4303 Celebration, FL 34747 Phone: 407-566-8594, Cell: 917-446-6797 E-mail: [email protected] Portfolio: http://bruceellmanportfolio.businesscatalyst.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/bruceellman/ Summary: • Extensive experience involving hundreds of wide-ranging projects designing and programming large scale audio installations for exhibitions, Broadway plays, and small plays and musicals both in and outside of New York City • Designed and programmed show control and audio systems for Madame Tussauds New York • A pioneer in the use of audio computer control systems for off-Broadway and Broadway theatre • Software (Partial List): Audition, Digital Performer, Logic, Medialon Manager, MS Office (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, Word), ProTools, QLab, Richmond Sound Design Software/Hardware including ABEdit, AudioBox, SoundMan- Server, Stage Research's SFX software, Sony’s Sound Forge, Vegas, Acid, and Dataton’s Watchout • Nine and a half years of experience as an educator and mentor teaching classes in entertainment technology at New York City’s College of Technology (CUNY) An extensive list of sound design and sound related projects, along with a list of the other designers associated with these projects, can be found at the end of this CV. Professional Affiliations: United Scenic Artists Local USA829, Sound Designer PSC/CUNY Instructional and Support Staff Union The Ensemble Studio Theatre/NY, Playwright/Designer Member Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) Professional Leadership: Engineering Brief presented at AES Conference on City Tech’s Haunted Hotel (John Huntington co-author) – New York, October 2011 Sound Design Admissions Exam Committee, Local USA829 United Scenic Artists – June 2008 Professional Development: 2009-2011 Graduate classes in theatre at Brooklyn College (City University of New York) 10/2011 Master Projection class at LDI (Orlando) Education: B.A., The City College of New York (City University of New York) – 1979 (Theatre) Teaching Experience NYC College of Technology: 1/2005 – 5/2014: Sound Design (Developer of the Sound Design course curriculum) 9/2005 – 5/2014: Introduction to Entertainment Technology 9/2005 – 5/2014: Sound Technology 1 | Page Sound Design: (2000- ) Intermission by David Libman, directed by Wayne Maugans, Presented by the Voyage Theatre at the Clurman Theater, NYC 5/14 The Gravesend Inn Haunted Hotel, presented by Citytech’s Theatre Works, The New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY 10/2009-20014 My Poor Marat, by Aleksei Arbuzov, translated by Oleg Ivanov, directed by Wayne Maugans, presented by the Voyage Theatre at The Canal Park Playhouse, NYC 4/13 The Golden Land, created by Zalmen Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld, directed by Bryna Wasserman, The Folksbiene Theatre at Baruch College, NYC 10/12 The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer, adapted and directed by Eleanor Reissa, The Folksbiene Theatre at Baruch College, NYC 5/11 Madame Tussauds New York, system designer for the audio system refurbishment project, and system designer, programmer and associate sound designer for the Spirit of New York exhibit, NYC 4/11 New Worlds: A Celebration of I.L.Peretz, directed by Motl Didner, The Folksbiene Theatre at Baruch College, NYC 11/10 Fyvush Finkel Live!, directed by Motl Didner, The Folksbiene Theatre at Baruch College, NYC 10/10 The Sweet, Sweet Motherhood by Jeremy Kareken, directed by Michael Bigelow Dixon, HERE Arts Center, NYC, 7/10 The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer, adapted and directed by Eleanor Reissa, The Folksbiene Theatre at Baruch College, NYC 5/10 Third by Wendy Wasserstein, directed by Richard Seer, Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA 1/08 Not Waving by Ellen Melaver, directed by Douglas Mercer, Kirk Theater, NYC, 7/07 Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by John Tillinger, Biltmore Theatre, NYC, produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, 10/05 2 | Page Sound Design: The Skin Game by John Galsworthy, directed by Eleanor Reissa, Mint Theater Company, NYC 7/05 Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck, directed by John Benjamin Hickey, Kalita Humphreys Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX 1/05 Echoes of the War by J.M. Barrie, directed by Eleanor Reissa, Mint Theater Company, NYC 7/04 Bad Dates, by Theresa Rebeck, directed by John Benjamin Hickey, Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, MA 1/04 Rose’s Dilemma by Neil Simon, directed by Lynne Meadow, City Center Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC, 12/03 Iron by Rona Munro, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, City Center Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC 10/03 Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck, directed by John Benjamin Hickey, Playwrights Horizon, NYC, 6/03 Last Dance by Marsha Norman, directed by Lynne Meadow, City Center Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, 6/03 Polish Joke by David Ives, directed by John Rando, City Center Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, 3/03 Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by David Petrarca, City Center Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC 2/03 The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch, directed by Lynne Meadow, Ethel Barrymore Theater, NYC, produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, 11/02 “Sonic Garden” – Consultant and programmer for Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Marina Rosenfeld, and Ben Rubin; The Winter Garden, World Financial Center, NYC, 10/02 The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch, directed by Lynne Meadow, City Center Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, 06/02 House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by John Tillinger, City Center Stage I and II, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC, 5/02 3 | Page Sound Design: CTRL+ALT+DELETE by Anthony Clarvoe, directed by Ethan McSweeney, George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ, 4/02 Out of Sterno by Deborah Zoe Laufer, directed by Eleanor Reissa, The Cherry Lane Alternative, 2/02 Runt of the Litter by Bo Eason, directed by Larry Moss, MCC Theater, NYC 2/02 Fully Committed by Becky Mode, directed by Daniel Goldstein, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 12/01 World of Mirth by Murphy Guyer, directed by Dona Vaughn, Theater Four, NYC, produced by Amy Danis/MARS Theatricals, Inc. 6/01 Fully Committed by Becky Mode, directed by Nicholas Martin, Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, CA, 4/01 Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by David Petrarca, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA, 4/01 The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Scott Ellis, Promenade Theatre, NYC, 12/00 Comic Potential by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by John Tillinger, City Center Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC, 11/00 (Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Sound Design) Fully Committed by Becky Mode, directed by Nicholas Martin, The Coronet Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 9/00 (L.A. Drama Critics Circle nomination) Full Bloom by Suzanne Broadbeer, directed by Mary B. Robinson, Consolati Performing Arts Center, Sheffield, MA,7/00 Current Events by David Marshall Grant, directed by David Petrarca, City Center Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club NYC, 6/00 Yard Gal by Rebecca Prichard, directed by Gemma Bodinetz, MCC, NYC, 4/00 (1990-1999) 4 | Page Sound Design: Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by David Petrarca, City Center Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC, 11/99 True History and Real Adventures by Sybille Pearson, directed by Michael Mayer, Vineyard Theatre, NYC 10/99 Fully Committed by Becky Mode, directed by Nicholas Martin, Vineyard Theatre, NYC, 9/99 (World Premiere) Chasing Monsters by Kevin Rehac, directed by Sabin Epstein, Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT, 8/99 1040 by Jerry Sterner, directed by Michael Seheman, Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford, CT, 11/98 The English Teachers by Ed Napier, directed by Robert Lupone, MCC, NYC, 4/99 ‘Til the Rapture Comes by Edward Napier, directed by Pamela Berlin, WPA Theatre, NYC, 10/98 The Last Enemy by Ray Leslee, directed by Eleanor Reissa, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, 10/98 Italian American Reconciliation by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Rob Ruggiero, Barrington Stage Co., Great Barrington, MA, 7/98 A View from the Roof by Dave Carley, directed by Julianne Boyd, Barrington Stage Co., Great Barrington, MA, 7/98 Full Gallop by Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson, directed by Nicholas Martin, Coronet Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 4/98 Full Gallop by Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson, directed by Nicholas Martin, McCallum Theatre – Bob Hope Cultural Center, Palm Desert, CA, 1/98 Full Gallop by Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson, directed by Ira Mont, Philadelphia Theater Company, Philadelphia, PA, 10/97 The Young Girl and the Monsoon by James Ryan, directed by William Carden, Playwrights Horizons, NYC, 5/97 5 | Page Sound Design: Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennett, directed by Cherie Bennett, American Jewish Theatre, NYC, 12/96 Political Animal by Douglas McGrath, directed by Peter Askin, The Westside Theatre, NYC, 10/96 Full Gallop by Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson, directed by Nicholas Martin, The Westside Theatre, NYC 9/96 Avenue X, by Ray Leslee and John Jiler, directed by Eric Riley, Barrington Stage Company, Barrington, MA, 7/96 The Yiddish Trojan Women, by Carole Braverman, directed by Richard Sabellico, American Jewish Theatre, NYC, 1/96 The Warm-up by Rudy DeLuca and Sammy Shore, directed by Martin Landau, American Jewish Theatre, NYC, 11/95 Full Gallop by Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson, directed by Nicholas Martin, City Center Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC, 10/95 A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White by Adrienne Kennedy, directed by Joseph Chaikin, Signature