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I am the owner and creative director of High Arte (www.higharte.com), an Internet marketing, graphic, media and web design company located in West Hollywood, California where I also live with my Briard, Morgan.
My company specializes in working with start-ups, professionals, established companies and companies in turn around. Our role is to help them develop a 21st Century e-commerce presence and marketing strategy that will effectively communicate who they are and what they do to the people who need to know. We provide logo design, corporate branding and re-branding, direct and e-mail marketing, multi-media presentations and custom-designed web sites.
Background:
In my over 30 years working in the theater and entertainment industry, I have been fortunate enough to touch very nearly every aspect of the business, including acting on Broadway and at Stratford in HENRY V, and for the BBC in the docudrama SMALLPOX. I've directed Shakespeare’s MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at the Tribecca Bar and Grill and LA BOHEME for Opera Theatre of St. Louis. In addition to my work as a casting director and director on and Off-Broadway, I was happy to help launch the careers of actors John Goodman, J.T. Walsh, Dan Florek, Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane.
As Producing Director of Charleston, South Carolina’s Dock Street Theatre and Queen Street Playhouse I produced and directed three seasons of 24 plays and musicals, a film series and a concert series of American jazz. I oversaw the restoration of the Queen Street Playhouse, served on South Carolina Art’s Commission, the Advisory Board of Piccolo Spoleto and taught acting at the College of Charleston.
A partial list of my producing and management credits include:
• the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s THE GERSHWIN CELEBRATION starring Leonard Bernstein, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rosemary Clooney, Bob Dylan, Madeline Kahn, Chita Rivera, Michael Tilson Thomas and Tommy Tune and its videotaping for PBS’s GREAT PERFORMANCES;
• the world premiere concert presentation, in Brooklyn and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., of George and Ira Gershwin’s Pulitzer Prize winning musical OF THEE I SING and its restored and re-orchestrated sequel LET EM EAT CAKE starring Jack Gilford, Larry Kert and Maureen McGovern;
• The Bridge – a Festival of American Musical Theatre in Beziers, France, starring Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Honey Coles;
• an American tour, off-Broadway presentation and two European tours of Robert Wilson’s play I WAS SITTING ON MY PATIO…, starring Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs;
• the original European tour and Metropolitan Opera presentation of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s acclaimed opera, EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH; and
• the international U.S. State Department Tour of The Martha Graham Dance Company to Portugal, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Israel and Jordan along with commercial engagements at London’s Covent Garden and Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens.
I am native of Houston, Texas, grew up in Oak Park, Illinois in the home Ernest Hemmingway was born in (now a museum). I was a Cherub at Northwestern University’s National Theatre Institute and graduated with a BFA in Acting and Design from Chicago’s renowned Goodman School of Drama/Art Institute of Chicago. In New York, I studied acting with the legendary actress and acting teacher, Uta Hagen.
