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Michael Niederman |
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Director of Artistic Development |
| michael@ignitedstates.com |
MICHAEL NIEDERMAN (Playwright) Is the author of the plays The Kuptferberg Family Tragedy (New York Stage and Film), To Barcelona! (TRU Voices Reading Series), Alvin Saves The Day, Good Men, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays (Risley Theater), Running Across Amsterdam (American Theater for the Actors), and Chelsea, Alaska (Lion Theater). He is also the author of numerous short plays. His pieces Every Man and Death From Above Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love America were featured at the 2007 Samuel French Short Play Festival, and Every Man was awarded top honors, winning the festival. His one-act, one-person show A Lecture On Subjects Important By John Karpowski, Expert, was recently produced by Crosstown Playwrights, and his short play Last Call was produced by Blue Box Productions at their November 2007 Sticky Festival. In 2008 Crosstown Playwrights produced his play One Little Duck at their Spring Forward Play Festival, and
Blue Box Productions produced his play American Hosanna at their 2008 Sticky Festival.
Most Recently his play Chelsea, Alaska was awarded a reading at the Soho Think Tank Sixth Floor Reading Series, and his new play, Freshman Fifteen was read as part of Crosstown Playwrights Summer Reading Series at the Second Stage Theater.
Michael is also an accomplished screenwriter. His script for the short film Proof of Birth won the Broadcast Educational Association Best Screenplay Award, and Faculty Selects at the Columbia University Film Festival. His feature length screenplay, Saint Carlos of Gowanus also won Faculty Selects at Columbia University, was featured at the National Association of Independent Latino Producers Writer's Lab, and is a finalist for the Sundance Film Festival Writer's Lab. Michael is the Director of Artistic Development for Ignited States. He is also a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), and is a founding member and producer of the Crosstown Playwrights. |
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Elyzabeth Gorman |
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Artistic Director |
| elyzabeth@ignitedstates.com |
Elyzabeth Gorman (Director) Is the Artistic Director of Ignited States Production Company [dedicated to smart works that spark debate]. She is a recipient of the Stone Award for excellence in dramaturgy. This grant to assist the Artistic Associate in dramaturgy at the Huntington Theatre Company lead to similar work at Manhattan Theatre Club, which was her introduction to New York theatre.
Ms. Gorman directed the New York premiere of Caitlin Condy's Little Wing at the New York Fringe Festival, the world premiere of Caitlin Condy's See Jane Run at Prospect Theatre Company, Michael Niederman's Every Man (2007 Samuel French Festival Winner), the world premier of Jennifer Lane's Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner? and Going Postal at the Bad Plays Festival. Readings include: To Barcelona! (TRU Reading Series), Pictures With A Naked Camera (IVT's Oh, Hello! Reading Series) and Don't Wait 'Til It's Too Late (Bad Plays Festival.) |
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Julie Griffith |
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Managing Director |
| julie@ignitedstates.com |
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Julie Griffith (Producer) Recent NYC producing credits include Anais Nin Goes To Hell by David Stallings (FringeNYC), MTWorks' Underworld: A Night With Broadway's Understudies (D-Lounge), Cody Daigle's Providence, Arpeggio by David Stallings (45th Street Theatre), Intravenous Theatre's Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner? by Jennifer Lane, and IVT's '06-'07 Oh, Hello! Reading Series. Ms. Griffith is a graduate of the George Washington University with honors in theater, the recipient of the Presidential Arts Scholarship for four years and The Kevin Peter Hall Memorial Award for strength, creativity and determination in the art of theater. She is the director of fundraising for Maieutic Theatre Works and is the co-founder and producing director of Intravenous Theatre Company. She worked in booking a Richard Frankel Productions, which included several touring shows, such as Hairspray, The Producers, The Rat Pack and Movin' Out. Currently, she is working at 321 Theatrical Management, which general manages over eight companies of Wicked worldwide. |
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Martha Goode |
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Managing Director |
| martha@ignitedstates.com |
Martha Goode (Managing Director) is the owner and manager of Night Owl Studios, a recording studio in Chelsea, specializing in recording services for the theatre, as well as working with musicians to record demos and full length albums in all genres. Ms. Goode holds a BFA from Boston University's College of Fine Arts in Technical Production, with an Emphasis in Sound Design and has completed additional coursework at Columbia University. In 2003, Ms. Goode designed the sound for Translations of Xhosa and Training Wisteria, both of which were chosento be performed at the Kennedy Center for The American College Theatre Festival. She won a Regional Barbizon Award for Sound Design for her work on Training Wisteria. A year later, Ms. Goode produced (and designed) Training Wisteria (New York Premiere) for the New York International Fringe Festival. Other Sound Design credits include Anais Nin Goes To Hell (MT Works), SPITE (Strings Attached Theatre Company), The Witlings (Magis Theatre Company), Edward II ((re:) Directions Theatre Company), Every Man (Ignited States: winner Samuel French Short Play Festival), Don't Shoot Your Eye Out! (The Brick
Theatre), Love Is Good (Love Creek Productions), Merchant of Venice,Twelfth Night & As You Like It, Blood Wedding, No Place To Be Somebody (Boston University). |
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