Production Team
PRODUCTION TEAM
Producing Artistic Director/CEO
Beth Marshall is an award-winning and critically acclaimed Producing Artistic Director, Theatre Artist and recovering Arts Administrator. Beth has made her living creating original works or producing traditional works told in untraditional ways with a strong focus on touring Fringe Festival Circuits.
Production Manager/Stage Manager
Chasmin Hallyburton studied B.A. Theatre Studies at UCF, during which time she began working for Beth Marshall Presents in 2009. Since then she has joined onto Beth Marshall Presents team full time as a Production Manager/Stage Manager. She has also stage managed for the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, as well as for other theatre companies in town. In addition to her backstage presence, she also enjoys performing in musicals, and baking minority pie. For more information, please visit her website at www.Chasmin.com.
Resident Director & Company Manager
Brenna Nicely is a stage director and dramaturg from Maine currently working on her MA at the University of Central Florida. Nicely’s work reflects her enthusiasm for exploring space and working collaboratively. Directing credits include Hamletmachine, Rhinoceros, and an original translation and adaptation of Kerstin Specht’s Lila. Nicely has previously worked on The Diviners and Prop 8 On Trial for Beth Marshall Presents and The Way of the Cards for Play the Moment Productions in Orlando and is working on developing a collage performance piece with the Women Playwrights’ Initiative for July 2012. She is excited to join the BMP team as Resident Director and Company Manager. Nicely is currently developing an artists’ collective, The Orlando Artists’ Lab, to launch in late 2012. For more information, please visit www.brennanicely.com.
Consultant/Core Ensemble
Arwen Lowbdrige’s work in the arts includes producing, fundraising, arts management, program consulting and performing. As an arts management consultant she specializes in fundraising and general management for small to midsized organizations. As a freelance producer, her focus is Do-It-Yourself production tactics for independent artists and emerging arts organizations. She received her BFA with Honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Experimental Theater Wing.Her clients include Incubator Arts Project, Performance Space 122, New York City Players, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater Co., The Lark Play Development Center, CUNY’s Prelude Festival, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, The Performance Project @ University Settlement, terraNOVA Collective and The Orlando International Fringe Festival. For several years she helped hundreds of artists across the country raise hundreds of thousands of dollars while on staff at Fractured Atlas and as Program Director of Fiscal Sponsorship she developed what is now the largest fiscal sponsorship program in the nation. She teaches fundraising & management workshops periodically at The Field and has guest taught, spoken publicly and/or testified on behalf of artists’ issues related to funding & sustainability for The Foundation Center (NY), Chamber Music of America, Opera America, the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors, the National Performing Arts Convention, NY City Council’s Cultural Affairs Committee, Columbia University, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Pratt Institute. She recently relocated from NYC to Central Florida and is thrilled to be part of the management team for Beth Marshall Presents. You can follow her every move virtually at www.arwenlowbridge.com.
Assistant Stage Manager/Stage Manager
Melissa E. Koerner has been enamored with the backstage life for as long as she can remember. Before moving to Orlando in 2008, she was Stage Manager for the Vam York Theater at the Gainesville Community Playhouse in Gainesville, Florida for 3 years and was Organizer/Director/Actor in 3 productions of The Vagina Monologues. Since 2008 she has worked as an Entertainment/Fireworks Manager for Disney’s Hollywood Studios, TYA Stage Manager for the Orlando Repertory Theatre’s Youth Academy Program, Technical Production Manager for the 2011 Encore Cast Choir & Orchestra show, ASM for A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas with Beth Marshall Presents as well as stage managing at the 2011 Orlando International Fringe Festival. Melissa is currently Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Company Manager for the 2011-2012 Season. She is incredibly excited to be part of the Production Team of Beth Marshall Presents and looks forward to a successful season. See you at the theatre!
OUR DESIGN TEAM
Lighting Designer
Amy Hadley has lived in Orlando since 1995 and is a graduate of The University of Central Florida. She is a Lighting Designer who works with many of the local theatres throughout Central Florida. She is very proud to have been a part of Beth Marshall Presents since the beginning. You may have seen her work in shows such as My Illustrious Wasteland, Our Town, Driving Miss Daisy, Crimes of the Heart, and A Christmas Carol. When she is not working as a Lighting Designer, she serves as the Technical Director for the Orlando Fringe Festival.
Sound Desinger
John Valines is the 6th member and “Sound Guy” for Toxic Audio who won the Drama Desk award in 2004 during their off-Broadway run. He’s also currently the Production Manager for for the award winning Sak Comedy Lab. John has had the pleasure of working with Stages Repertory, the Colorado Festival of World Theatre, Orlando Fringe, Florida Studio Theatre, The Orlando REP, Mad Cow, Beth Marshall Presents, and more. John also hosts the popular podcast, Radio Rickshaw for rickshawboy.com.
Set Designer
Tom Mangieri has a twenty one year history in Central Florida, Tom has worked with all the major theatre companies as well as numerous television sets for UCF-TV. Born and bred in New York, Tom holds a BA in Drama and Art, and often paints and dresses his own sets. Originally skilled in Graphics and Acting, he was often approached to work on sets in New York once the company found out he could draw and paint. Tom now designs regularly with The Orlando REP and Lake Highland Prep, and has many credits with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Downtown, Madcow, and the IceHouse Theatre. With Beth Marshall Presents the projects were Our Town, Crimes Of The Heart and A Christmas Carol. Tom looks forward to a successful season with Beth and her production team.
Costume Designer
Jennifer Bonner – Jennifer graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Theatre with concentrations in performance, design, and production from Frostburg State University in small town Western Maryland. She’s been working as a theatre professional for over five years here in Orlando, most notably as an actress and costume designer. She is thrilled to be a member of Beth Marshall Presents Design and core Perfromance Team as well as a collaborating partner with Empty Spaces Theatre Co. Her credits with Beth Marshall Presents include Crimes of the Heart (Meg/costume design), Our Town (Emily), The Pollock Project (Lee Krasner/Costume Design), The 1934 Project (Agnes Tait/Costume Design), Driving Miss Daisy (Costume Design), and A Christmas Carol (Costume Design.) THE GRAPHIC DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION PROJECT (Jennifer/Costume Design) Other notable credits include Empty Spaces Theatre Co(llaboration)’s Phantasmagoria (Costume Design), Tod Kimbro’s Media (Various Roles), Exit Pursued by a Bear (Nan Carter) as part of the 2010 PlayFest at OST, Ice House Theatre’s Miracle on 34th St (Doris Walker), and Bay Street Players’ A Little Night Music (Desiree Armfeldt.) When she is not on or back stage, she is keeping art education alive as the Arts Education Coordinator with thte Orange County Arts Education Center. She is truly honored to be a part of the wonderful team that is Beth Marshall Presents.
OUR PHOTOGRAPHER
Kristen Wheeler To find out more about Kristen, please go to her website at www.khphotographics.com.
DIRECTOR/WRITER
Aradhana Tiwari is a Director/Playwright with a M.A. in the Theatre from the University of Central Florida. Returning from working with NYC’s Circle Repertory and Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, Tiwari is glad to be back in the Orlando Art’s Scene and looking forward to directing “The Diviner’s” this fall for Beth Marshall Presents as well as “The Pink Ribbon Project” opening this September at The Orlando Repertory Theater. Previous directing credits include: “It’s A Wonderful Life”, “Little Women”, “Steel Magnolias”, “The Little Foxes”, “Patient X”, “The War Of The Worlds”, “Lysistrata”, “Crimes of The Heart”, “Julius Caesar”, “Once On This Island”, “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?”, “Driving Miss Daisy”, and most recently the premier of “Bombs, Babes, and Bingo” at the Artist’s Laboratory Theater in Fayetteville Arkansas. In addition, Tiwari directed the 2008 and 2009 “Singing Christmas Trees” which was broadcast worldwide on ABC and TBN. In 2010, Tiwari’s original play “The Way Of The Cards” was given a staged reading at The Orlando Shakespeare Theater and is currently in development for production with Beth Marshall Presents. Having worked with a myriad of theater, music and dance companies, Tiwari is an ardent advocate for collaborative cross-pollination in artistic mediums and the continued development of new plays. This past April she accepted the role of President for the Women Playwrights’ Initiative. Thanks to funding from United Arts, Tiwari hosts “2:22 Devising”, a multi-faceted Artist’s Lab dedicated to experimental and exploratory theater. For more information, please visit playthemoment.com/studio 2:22.
