Creative Team

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    Michael Alltop
    Director

    MICHAEL ALLTOP was the Producing Artistic Director of BRAT Productions from 2007 to 2010 and focused on expanding the company’s audience through large-scale, popular works that also maintained the company’s reputation for bravado and experimentation. Original concepts developed for Brat include the Barrymore Award-winning Three Chord Fiction (2007), User 927 (2008), and Haunted Poe (2009). Alltop holds an M.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University.
  • Michael L. Cristaldi
    FX Designer

    MICHAEL L. CRISTALDI (Special Effects Consultant) has worked with BRAT in various ways since 2000, and now he's proud to be part of the creative team. His full-time gig in Philly is T.D. for Philadelphia Theatre Company. He also works the fringe, having recently produced "The Late Night Cabaret", and often tours with Enchantment Theatre's symphony division. He lives with his wonderful wife Stacey in South Jersey, where they are developing The Greenwich
    Academy for the Performing Arts.
     
  • Karen Getz
    Choreographer

    KAREN GETZ (choreography) is a three-time Barrymore Award-winning Philadelphia-based theater artist. She most recently received a 2009/2010 Philadelphia Theatre Initiative Grant in support of her new piece, The A.I. Project, an actors’ ballet that explores the beauty of human imperfection through the behaviors of artificially intelligent robots. Other work with BRAT includes choreography for Naked Cocktail and co-producing and choreographing Grease and Desisit.
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    Erik Jackson
    Playwright

    ERIK JACKSON (Playwright) has written four Off Broadway plays and a musical. The comedy Charlie! (1995) drew unprecedented “listening-room only” audiences to New York’s P.S. 122 and the HERE Theater. His comic thriller Tell-Tale (1997) premiered at P.S. 122 then transferred to the Cherry Lane Theater. It received a GLADD nomination as best play of the year. Doll (2000), a twisted take on Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, was produced at P.S. 122 and in Washington D.C.
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    Chris Kleckner
    Technical Director, Set Designer, FX Designer

    Chris Kleckner (Technical Director, Set Design, FX Design) has been working in various facets of technical theatre for over a decade. Currently, Chris is the production manager and technical director as well as adjunct professor at the Arcadia University Theatre Program. He served as both scenic designer and assistant technical director for the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, and has designed for Cornell University as well as other regional and professional theatres.
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    Debby Lau
    Stage Manager

    Debby Lau (Stage Manager) has had a wide range of experience in Philly theatre, including: stage manager of Nerve (Azuka), Any Given Monday and Hunter Gatherers (Theatre Exile), Trad (Inis Nua), The Rock Tenor (JV Theatrical), the Barrymore Awards and Spark Showcase 08-10 (Theatre Alliance), The Shape of Things (Plays and Players), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Prayers of Sherkin and Our Town (Villanova); ASM of Hysteria, Scorched, Schmucks and Rock ‘n’ Roll
  • Lauren Mandilian
    Video Design

    LAUREN MANDILIAN (Video Design) graduated from Drexel University with her Bachelor of Science (2006) and Master of Science (2007) in Digital Media.
  • Paul Peyton Moffitt
    Production Manager, Lighting Designer

    PAUL PEYTON MOFFITT (Lighting Design, Production Manager) is a Lighting Designer and Production Manager based out of Philadelphia. He Graduated with a BFA Technical Theatre with an emphasis in Light Design from UNC-Greensboro in 2000. In Philadelphia Paul has designed for Celebration Theatre Company, Headlong Dance Theatre, Intrepid Theatre Company, Zen One Dance Collective, Mayflower Theater Company, Nicole Canuso Dance Company, Theatre Exile, Brat Productions, and Azuka Theatre.
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    Alisa Sickora Kleckner
    Costume Designer, FX Designer

    Alisa is a theatre artist who has designed costumes, puppets and masks throughout the Northeast. As an adjunct faculty and resident designer at Arcadia University, Alisa teaches courses in costume design and construction, puppet theatre and stage make-up as well as running the university’s costume shop. Favorite designs include Visit to a Small Planet, The Rocky Horror Show, Love of the Nightingale and Three Sisters (Arcadia University), CAW, The Pillow of Kantan and Electra (Muhlenberg College) as well as designing and building Kid Simple (Azuka Theatre).