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Creative Team

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    Michael Alltop
    Original Concept

    Producing Artistic Director for Brat since February 2007. Conceived the Barrymore Award-winning Three Chord Fiction; directed and acted in Fatboy; conceived and directed User 927; and conceived Haunted Poe.
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    Brian Chacon
    Production Manager

     Brian R. Chacon (Production Manager) has over 25 years of experience in construction and construction management. With specialties in mechanical, operations, business management and creative design application, Chacon has worked as a production manager on many feature films and dramatic series including “Born 2 Salsa,” “The Crew” and “The Saints,” as well as short films, music videos and commercials. Technical expertise includes carpentry, AutoCAD200, trade show management, masonry glazing and fiber optics.
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    Lindsay Galbraith
    Stage Manager

    Lindsay has a B.A. in Theatre from Bloomsburg University. She completed a season as the stage management fellow at the Wilma, and has worked with Pig Iron and Azuka during the past three fringe festivals. She stage managed Azuka's Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Kid Simple, as well as the most recent production of Whisky Neat, and has been on four tours with American Family Theater.
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    Greg Giovanni
    Dramaturg

    Greg Giovanni has been a director, playwright, performance artist, and actor in Philadelphia for over four lustra. Last year The Painted Bride Arts Center hosted a retrospective some of his major works. He as trained in the art of Noh for twelve years and is a founding member of Theatre Nohgaku, the international Noh company. In 2006 they produced Greg’s Noh play “Pine Barrens” featuring master musicians and actors from Japan. Greg is thrilled to be working on this project, as Romantic literature and Gothic theory are two of his many intellectual pursuits.
  • Bradley Helm
    Set Design

    Bradley Helm (Sets) has worked with Brat on many projects over the last 7 years starting with Once in 2002. Other Brat credits include Haunted Poe, A 24-Hour The Bald Soprano, Grease and Desist, Moby Dick Rehearsed, Popsicles Departure, 1989 and more. He has extensive design credits in Philly including 1812 Productions, Lantern Theater Company, Prince Music Theater, Act 2 Playhouse and many others. Most recently he was resident designer for the Devon Theater and Proof Productions.
  • John Hoey
    Lighting Design

    John Hoey (Lighting Design) has designed at nearly every theater in Philadelphia, including the Arden, the Wilma, People's Light and the Walnut Street Theatres, and designed Popcicles Departure '89 and Moby Dick Rehearsed for Brat Products. He designed over 20 operas for the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and just opened his 75th ballet for the Pennsylvania Ballet. He was on the design staff of New York City Opera, and was Lighting Director at New York City Ballet for 3 seasons.
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    Matthew Holtzclaw
    Magic & Illusion Consultant

    Matthew Holtzclaw has been recognized as one of the top performers and technicians in the world of magic and special effects. Currently he is working on a Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow and an Off-Broadway stage project directed by Teller (the smaller, quieter half of Penn and Teller) called Play Dead. Other credits include: 
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    Michael Kiley
    Sound Design

    Michael Kiley (Sound Designer) is a sound designer, composer, songwriter and voice teacher working in Philadephia. He has worked for Theatre Exile, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, SubCircle, and most recently, designed and composed Brat's Haunted Poe. He is the founder of the free music project The Mural and The Mint, which you can check out at www.themuralandthemint.com
  • Chris Kleckner
    Props Design

    Chris J. Kleckner (Technical Director, Props Design) has been working in various areas of technical theatre for over seventeen years. He has spent the last seven seasons with Acadia University Theatre as an adjunct professor, production manager, scenic designer, and technical director. Previously, he has worked with a range of theatres throughout the Mid-Atlantic designing and building his way up and down the east coast.
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    Edward Pettit
    Literary Consultant, "The Philly Poe Guy"

    Edward Pettit is the Philly Poe Guy, a freelance writer, book reviewer and literary provocateur. He gives public lectures about Poe and Philadelphia Gothic and this work has been featured in the NY Times and newspapers and magazines around the world, as well as on TV and radio. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Mystery Writers of America, Pettit also writes the Ed & Edgar blog, chronicling his adventures in the Cult of Poe. http://bibliothecary.squarespace.com/
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    Andrew Repasky McElhinney
    Film and Video Design

    Andrew Repasky McElhinney is the creator of the short films "The Scream" (1994), "Her Father’s Expectancy" (1994), "A Maggot Tango" (1995) and the features "Magdalen" (1998), "A Chronicle of Corpses" (2000), "Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye" (2003) and "Animal Husbandry" (2009). "A Chronicle of Corpses," a lushly detailed, early nineteenth century period piece, was named as one of the top ten movies of the year by both The New York Times and The Village Voice.
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    Elisabeth Roskos
    Wardrobe Supervisor

    Elisabeth Roskos (Wardrobe Supervisor) earned a BFA in Fibers from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. After working for a year at a production house as the "Jill of All Trades," she spent a season at CENTERSTAGE in Baltimore as the costume intern. This past summer she worked in the costume shop at the Williamstown Theater Festival and plans to do similar summer stocks. Elisabeth has kept her ties in Baltimore with Molly Ross and NaNa Projects, a group of visual alchemists who serve communities with engaging spectacles, interactive events and of course, puppetry.
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    Alisa Sickora Kleckner
    Costumes, Masks & Puppets

    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).