The Directors

IOWA PLAY FESTIVAL

presents

DIRECTORS: for Hulabaloo

Savannah Quinn

Scott Schlecta

Anya Petrova

Sara Hawthorne

Burt Chojnowski

David Patterson

Carol Lee

Patrick Bosold

David Patterson lives in Iowa. He directed the play, " 12 Angry Jurors" at the 20th Century Fox Studios in 2001. He also directed the play "Corpus" at the Montana One-Act play Festival in 2005. He has directed two of his won plays " Closing Crew" And " What's The Magic Word?" His short films “Contractual Obligation” and “Fairy Field” appeared at the 2009 Fairfield Film Expo.Can contact David at:

PO Box 441

Fairfield, Iowa 52556

moonlymandave@yahoo.com

Savannah Quinn is living in Fairfield Iowa. She loves the Theatre and Film. She directed The Last of the Amazons - a feature length film. She Co- Directed Fairyfield - a pilot for children. On Stage she has directed When will I Dance and adapted and Directed that for a short film. In the Montana Play festival She directed Checkhov's The Proposal. She is also an Actor and has been in Theatre, Film and Commercials. She is a SAG and Aftra member and just recently won Best Supporting Actress at the IMPA awards in Des Moines

Alana Waksman, a Fairfield native, holds a BA from Connecticut College in Theater and English. She has directed two full-length productions as well as many shorter-length shows, and acted in over fifteen full-scale productions. She has studied Linklater Voice Technique and Suzuki Actor Training Method and attended programs at Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The O’Neill National Theatre Institute, St. Petersburg Dramatic Arts Academy in Russia, and interned for theater companies such as The Missoula Oblongata and The Women’s Project in NYC. Alana’s latest endeavor involved running the drama program at Maharishi School and their group mime received the top honor at the Iowa High School Speech Association All-State Festival this year.

George Kelley has been acting professionally across the nation. He recently came back to Fairfield to perform The Lion in Winter with The Shakespeare Ensemble. For 2 years, he performed with the Tony Award Winning Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City. He has also acted with the Milwakee Rep theatre and Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in California.

Neil Cunningham began his acting career in the late 60's as a member of The Westside Actors Rep Company in New York performing in plays by Brecht, Chekov, Pinter, Anuile, Schnitzler, and others. He began working in film with directors Martin Ritt, Arthur Penn, Joe Sargent, Delbert Mann; and had the opportunity to work with Paddy Cheyefsky. Neil has worked TV; taught acting in Ottawa, Vancouver, The Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York; coached acting at Warner Brothers Studios; and was a recent recipient of the Best Actor award presented by The Wild Rose Independent Film Fest in Iowa. Neil is a member of the Actors Studio and spent many years with his great teacher Lee Strasberg.

Michael Rosner has studied with academy award winning actress Joanne Woodward.He worked for River Arts Repertory out of Woodstock, New York traveling around the country performing in a show that helped youths at risk.He has acted and directed on both coasts and has made numerous video shorts here in Fairfield.

Campbell Hair - Director of Lights and Music
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Woodstock started his career. A few months after the festival he was on the road. Started as sound man but shortly switched to lighting. Sharpened his theatrical lighting skills with couple years of working off Broadway theatre in New York in the early 70's. His skills ripened just as the music biz was embracing theatrical lighting and scenery in there shows. Campbell went on to 15 years of touring doing lighting and production management for many bands. To name a few ABBA, ELO, Poco, CS&N, Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Boz Scaggs, Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and many more. Campbell also has lighting credits for the 80's movies Streets of Fire and Running Man. Campbell left the road in mid 80's to start a graphic art business and later went back to freelance stagecraft in the LA area before moving to Fairfield 3 years ago.