Mission Statement
Right
Down Broadway Productions
has been created to bring together disparate elements of the
theatrical community (Artists, Designers and Theatre
Companies) to consolidate resources, revenues, experience
and talent AND provide original, quality, theatrical
entertainment to the public. New plays will be given a
limited (4-6 week) run with productions supported by a
realistic, professional budget. Regional theatre companies
throughout the country will be invited to attend as a way of
expanding their talent pool and discovering writers whose
work is currently unknown to them. They will have the
opportunity to take home a new play that fits well with the
interests and needs of their communities. A prior New York
City production allows these theater companies to benefit
from word of mouth and reviews associated with promoting a
play. This lightens the burden of the greater financial
resource needed to produce new works.
Right
Down Broadway Productions is dedicated to fostering
leadership and unity in the New York theater community and
bringing high-quality, deserving, well-developed projects to
the Off-Broadway Stage.
Weaving together an imaginative group uniquely suited to
each project, we provide opportunities for experienced and
underserved theater professionals. Audiences are rewarded
with exposure to fresh ideas, new faces as well as
compelling, entertaining theatre.
Producing
Artistic Director / Director of Development
Artists
Statement:
The hardest thing for a human being to do is
surrender a mindset that is no longer working.
Using conflicts that transcend cultural issues, my
plays explore what happens when this belief system
is forcibly challenged by circumstances or
relationships, and the individual crumbles. With
the realization that yesterday's answers don't
apply, he/she is left with an opportunity to build a
new and potentially more honest foundation for the
future. - Kari Floren
Kari Floren
has
been a writer for 17 years. She is the resident
playwright for Right Down Broadway Productions, as well
as the author of two screenplays, The Night of the
New Moon (currently in development,
www.nightofthenewmoon.com ) and
It's Magic! In 1999 she co-produced her play,
Incidental Lives with the New Avenue Theater Project at
Synchronicity Space.
Board
of Directors
Our
Advisory Board brings wide-ranging experience in both the
business and artistic communities. While advising us in the
inception and direction of Right Down Broadway Productions,
their guidance and support gives us invaluable aid in
pursuing our far-reaching goals.
Rev.
Martin Bancroft, Jr.
set aside a fifteen-year career as one of New York’s top
commercial print models to pursue his life long ambition of
becoming a Roman Catholic Priest. In 1981, prior to working
as a model/actor, he was a stained glass artisan and a
gardener at the Von Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. In
1978 he traveled and worked with Mother Theresa in Calcutta,
India. Presently he is an ordained Priest residing at the
Church of Saints Philip and James in St. James, New York.
Michael
McKenzie
is a graduate of Webster College Conservatory of Theatre
Arts in St. Louis, MO, class of 1979. For twenty-five years
he has worked as an actor, appearing on Broadway in Waiting
in the Wings (with Lauren Bacall), The Man Who Came to
Dinner (with Nathan Lane) and in Eastern Standard, and
toured the United States and Canada for two seasons as a
member of John Houseman's The Acting Company. Other stage
credits include Pittsburgh Public, South Coast Repertory,
Hartford Stage, The Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles), The
Goodman Theatre (Chicago), Pioneer Theater (Salt Lake City),
Portland Stage, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Alabama
Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis Repertory and many others.
Television credits include Law & Order, Hack, All My
Children, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, Chicago
Hope, Babes, Gabriel's Fire, Hypernauts, and a dozen
episodes of Babylon 5. See more on Michael McKenzie at
www.michaelmckenzie.info.
Brian Peterson
is the Associate
Dean of CUNY’s School of Professional Studies. SPS develops
and conducts courses and certificate programs in
collaboration with government, not-for profit entities,
businesses and unions. In his role as Associate Dean, Brian
is responsible for providing leadership for the creation,
management, promotion, and oversight of new graduate and
undergraduate certificate and degree programs. Brian serves
as member of the Online Baccalaureate Coordinating Committee
and is responsible for the overall implementation and
administration of online degree programs at the School.
His work has focused on developing and implementing
workforce development and continuing education initiatives
for the University including CUNY’s Professional Training
Academy with New York City’s Human Resources Administration,
the Informal Family Childcare Training Project and the CUNY
3-1-1 Program.
Brian is also a member of the Board of the Lincoln
Center Institute.
Prior to coming to CUNY, Brian was the Executive
Director of Adult Programs at Jobs for Youth, Inc., which
served at-risk families and out-of-school youth. His
undergraduate degree is from St. Cloud State University in
Minnesota and he holds a Master’s of Public Administration
from Baruch College.
Angela
Rowles
is currently an Associate Producer and General Manager for
Networks Presentations whose 2005/2006 touring season
includes national tours of Annie, Little Women, the Broadway
Musical, Rent, Oklahoma, and Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake.
Past productions include The Full Monty, contact, Fosse,
Oliver!, Cabaret, Kiss Me Kate, Cinderella, starring Ertha
Kitt, Seussical the Musical, starring Cathy Rigby, Ragtime,
tick, tick....boom!, Showboat, and The Civil War. Prior to
working with Networks, she was the Company Manager for
Jeffrey Finn Production's Broadway Songbook Series and
Company Manager/Performance Director for Jean Ann Ryan
Productions aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line. As a Dancer
she was a member of Actors Equity Association and performed
extensively, including roles in both the National and
European tours of 42nd Street.
Martha
Sedgwick's
work has been exhibited throughout the United States
including Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Arts, A.I.R. Gallery and
Artist Space in New York City, and is included in the
Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her work is
widely represented in private and public collections
including the W Hotel Group and Mckinsey and Company. Ms.
Sedgwick received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the
School of Visual Arts in 1978.
She lives and works in New York City and Truro, MA. See her
website
www.marthasedgwick.com
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