Bad Dog Crew
RUSSELL TAYLOR (Director). Russell was recently chosen for the 2006 Backstage Bistro Award for Director of a Cabaret for The Fabulous Pink Flamingos: Live From the Lu’au Lounge. Directing credits include: Angels Fall (Theater Forum Spring 2006), Naked Macbeth, The Revelation Circus, The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch, The Berliner Faustus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Andorra, Peter Pan, The Crucible, A Company of Wayward Saints, The Diviners, and Fool of Hearts. He has written the book for five musicals: Waiting on Blue, Far Away Places, Hollywood Hallelujah, Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve , and Come by Here. His theatre-adjacent career has included stints as: Fuzzy the singing cop at Disneyland, a walking puppet theatre at Knott’s Berry Farm, an improviser at the L.A. Connection, a day care worker, a Sunday School Teacher, a Bible Salesman, a High School Drama Teacher, and a graphic artist. In 1975 he was voted Most Humorous by Mrs. Argebright’s Seventh Grade Speech and Drama Class. He has spent the remainder of his life defending the title. He hopes one day to be the sensitive one in a boy band. www.russelltaylor.com
DANIELLE CAMPBELL (Production Stage Manager). Recent credits: Production Stage Manager: Angels Fall (Theater Forum Spring 2006); Assistant Producer: Oh Rats! (York Theatre); Assistant to Producer: Drama Desk Awards 2003, 2004, 2005; Follow Me (Theatre at GTT), The Luigi Board (Theatresport), (Theatresport), Shades of Harlem (Theatresport), Company (Lucille Lortel Theatre), The Black Monk Chekhov Now! Festival (Connelly Theater), Asshole Monologues (Manhattan Ensemble Theater), South Africa to Broadway starring Tsidii Le Loka (The Lion King,), Spirit of South Africa (Orpheum Theatre, TN.) Epimenidies (Lamb’s Theatre); Directed: You’re It! The Musical That Puts You In The Spotlight! (Tony’s Di Napoli); Assistant Director: Follow Me (Theatre at GTT); Danielle has also line produced and worked on various films and has numerous acting credits as well.
KRIS CHEN (Sound Design). is an audio engineer currently working full time for the live streaming show at Zoe Ministries. He has recently worked as a mix and master engineer for the CD album A Festival of Lessons and Carols, a live musical and opera by Emmanuel Presbyterian Church. He has also worked as a sound effect engineer for For Christ’s Sake The Musical at New World Stages and Angels Fall at Theater Forum. Besides that, he has done many studio recordings for local musicians including classical piano, concert instrumental, rock, Pop, R&B, and Hip-Hop. He is also an active musician, who has played violin for 19 years, as well as guitar and piano for various studio projects. But the most exciting thing for him is being a member of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.
BOBBY BRADLEY (Lighting Design).
ANDREW SELTZ (Technical Consultant), co-founded the Theater Forum Series. He worked as Stage Manager for the New World Repertory Company in Chicago and performed with Children’s Theatre at the Second City in Chicago. Andrew is a freelance video producer and also works as a digital media producer for the American Bible Society, where he served as Executive in Charge of Production for the children’s television series Kingsley’s Meadow and the award winning short film Resurrection starring Jim Caviezel. He has worked as Producer and Director of Photography on the feature films Under Surveillance and Elevation Due West (which he also directed). He is affectionately known in the Blogosphere as “The Go-To Guy.” www.andrewseltz.com
JOEL GUERRERRO (Visual Design).
AARON HABERER (Set Designer).
EDWARD WHEELER (Fight Choreography). Edward has been teaching martial arts since 1988, stunts since 1996 and stage combat in NYC for 4 years. He is an AFAA certified kickboxing instructor, an Awarded Advanced Actor Combatant with the SAFD, and founding member of Fight Builders, a fight choreography, stunt, and combat instruction company. Credits include stunts and stunt coordination for 11 films, 9 television shows, including One Life to Live, and over 40 stage productions. www.fightbuilders.com
ELLEN SELTZ (Executive Producer), first participated in Theater Forum as an actress in the 2001 production of Interference 10.5, and is producing the 2006 season, including our spring show Angels Fall. Ellen is a prolific actress and aspiring writer. Her children’s musical Stone Soup is currently in development with Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Threads New Works Series, and has had two workshop readings in Manhattan. Ellen received her degree in Drama from Duke University and trained in the Shakespeare Intensive at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. She has performed with theater companies throughout the Southeast. Most recently, Ellen appeared as Irene in Mark Medoff’s Kringle’s Window at The Northeast Theatre, and as in ShakespeareNYC’s Julius Caesar. Other New York roles include Edith Stein with the Ligourian Players, Vita in the Actor’s Co-Op East staged reading of Angels Fall, and Mrs. Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor for Gorilla Rep. She can also be seen in the award-winning independent film Delayed and the popular made-for-TV drama Face on the Milk Carton - a Lifetime Channel perennial. www.ellenseltz.com Her upcoming project is the production and management of Baby Seltz in January 2007.
JENNIFER EDWARDS (Costumer/Producer),
CAROLINE MANDLER (Assistant Producer),
DAVID WU (Sound Operator). is an audio engineering student, experienced in working with live and studio sound production. He also performs as a violinist, pianist and singer. Before moving to the US, he sang and played keyboard with a popular pub band. He is trilingual in English, Mandarin and Taiwanese. His future goal is to be a music arranger and studio producer.
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