Summit Playhouse: Kaleidoscope 2002: Staff Bios

Glory Sims Bowen: Producing Director
Jenn Bornstein: Director, High Tide/How To Write A Play
Joyel Crawford: Assistant Director, Eating Out/Shallow End/Actor's Nightmare
Ryan Davis: Assistant Director, High Tide/How To Write A Play/Sightings
Christopher Brooks: Sound Designer
Judy Fraser: Properties Chairman
Scott Goldman: Stage Manager
Jody Ratti: Scenic Designer
Mark Reilly: Lighting Designer
Bill Roome: Technical Director
Jenna Rossi: Costume Designer
Patrick C. Tansor: Dialect Coach

Glory Sims Bowen (Producing Director) has been the recipient of the Meritorious Achievement Award in Direction from the Kennedy Center A.C.T.F. She has directed for several Manhattan Theaters including; The American Globe Theater, The Bank Street Theater, Lost Tribes Theater Company, Untitled Theater Company #61, HERE, and The Connelly Theater. Her recent NYC productions of Ionesco's Foursome and of Jack or The Submission received rave reviews in The Village Voice and in The NY Theatre Wire. Some of her other directorial credits include The Leader, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Agnes of God, The Glass Menagerie, The Rocky Horror Show, Pippin, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dreams of Home, Sundance, Interview, Joseph and his....Coat, Uncommon Women and Others, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in The Moon Marigolds, and Ten Little Indians. Besides directing, she has worked a variety of theatrical jobs in several local New Jersey theaters including The NJ Shakespeare Festival, Plays in The Park, The Bickford Theater, The Forum Theater, and The Community Theater of Morristown. She has been the set dresser for plays starring Leslie Nielson, Robert Wagner and Jill St. John. She is also an accomplished actress having performed in Los Angeles, Sacramento Ca., NYC, Virginia and New Jersey. Last season she played Catherine Sloper in The Summit Playhouse's production of The Heiress. In her copious spare time she runs her own production company - FHB Theater Productions - named in honor of her father.

Jenn Bornstein (Director of High Tide/How To Write A Play) is thrilled to be part of the Kaleidoscope Festival. Current projects include Conflicts in the Cerebral Cortex which she directed for a New York showcase in June and Sylvia which she will be producing and directing in September. A company member of 12 Miles West Theatre Company in Montclair, she has also served as the Artistic Director for their children's theatre group, The Troupe of Vagabonds, whose 2001-2002 productions included The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (director), The Gift of the Magi, The Giving Tree (co-adaptor & director), and The Wind in the Willows (actor). Also for 12MW, Jenn had the honor of directing a staged reading of a premier musical entitled Whaddya Got Kid?! arranged by Robert Coiffi and featuring music of the 1900's through the 1940's. Other theatre companies with whom she has worked include: Paper Mill Playhouse, Apricot Sky Productions, Shoestring Players, The Forum Theatre, Playwright's Theatre of NJ, Cape May Stage, Destiny Productions, and the UCC Theatre Project. In the past, she's had the honor of participating in a number of productions in any number of capacities; some favorites are: Hair (actor), The Red Rose (director), Finger Foods (director), Cape May on Fire (Lights), Prelude to a Kiss with Margaret Colin (stage manger), Blood Knot with Joe Morton (stage manager), Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (actor), Ms. Consuelo (assistant director), A Jersey Cantata (stage manager), and The Actor's Nightmare (director).

Joyel Crawford (Assistant Director of Eating Out/Shallow End/Actor's Nightmare) was born in Plainfield, NJ. Joy fell in love with Theatre Arts at the early age of three! She is a graduate of Elon College in NC with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and a minor in Theater Arts. Currently she is working at Verizon Wireless and pursuing her M.B.A. at Fairleigh Dickinson University at Madison, NJ. When she's not performing on stage or being involved technically backstage, this Drama Queen enjoys singing in her church choir or winning prizes in karaoke contests. Her most memorable technical experiences include: Assistant Theater and Vocal Instructor (Lake Bryn Mawr Camp, PA), Assistant Director, What I Did Last Summer, (Elon College, NC), Drama Therapy Specialist (UMDNJ-Piscataway, NJ), and Stage Manager for Dancing at Lughnasa (Elon College) and Lil Abner (Linden Summer Playhouse).

Ryan Davis (Assistant Director of High Tide/How To Write A Play/Sightings) has most recently directed Broken Truths, a collection of one-acts for Conspiracy Theatre, in New York. Ryan has produced many cabaret shows in the city, including A Hero's Benefit, which assisted NYC Firefighters after 9/11. The program featured the talent of Tony Roberts, Louise Pitre, and many other familiar faces from the Broadway stage. Ryan has also worked with the NativeAliens Theatre Collective, Community Players of Salisbury, The Storm Theatre, Don't Tell Mama, & Rose's Turn on various productions.

Christopher Brooks (Sound Designer) has designed sound for several Manhattan theaters. Previous sound designs for Ms. Bowen include Pillow Talk at the American Globe Theatre, Foursome at The Connely Theatre, and Ten Little Indians at The Butler Theatre #5. In addition to his theatrical sound designs, he is also an accomplished audio engineer and musician. Companies he has done work for include Sony Music and Columbia Records. He is a graduate of the Institute of Audio Research located in Manhattan.

Judy Fraser (Properties Chairman) has experience in many different types of theatrical roles. At the Orange Avenue School located in Cranford, she has done props and make-up for Guys & Dolls, set painting and decoration for Oliver, and set painting for Peter Pan. She has also worked stage crew for Sound of Music at the Cranford Dramatic Club and for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at Studio Players. In her spare time she works in the administrative offices at The Paper Mill Playhouse. She is a full time CPA corporate tax consultant.

Scott Goldman (Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to Summit Playhouse after a year hiatus. He has been the assistant director to Ron Wells for Kaleidoscope's Narnia and to Vincent J. Balzano for You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Past stage credits include Eugene in the Playhouse's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Lurvy in Kaleidoscope's Charlotte's Web. Scott currently is a junior Drama and Speech Communication major at Ithaca College, where he directed The Laramie Project earlier this year. Other credits at Ithaca include Side Show and A Voice of My Own. Scott is currently interning at ArtsPower (www.artspower.org), a national touring children's theater company in Montclair, NJ. Scott also founded and is the Producing Artistic Director for Stage Presence, Inc., a nonprofit theater company in Union, NJ. Enjoy the show!

Jody Ratti (Scenic Designer) has worked at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival as a carpenter on several of their productions. He has been the technical director for the Millbrook Playhouse as well as an Assistant Scenic Designer/Properties Designer for Tri-State Center for The Arts. His many scenic design credits include Romeo and Juliet, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Annie, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Oklahoma, I Do! I Do, and Same Time Next Year. He is a recent graduate from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, with degrees in Technical Theatre and Literature, as well as minors in Art and Philosophy.

Mark Reilly (Lighting Designer) has been involved with theater and show production for over twenty years. After many years of corporate and special event work with his laser show production company, He is glad to be designing for the theater again. Recent theatrical designs include West Side Story and Grease for Cranford Repertory; Brigadoon and Annie for Phoenix Productions. Laser show credits include opening days for the Philadelphia Flyers and NJ Nets; Opsail 2000, a laser light show from the Ben Franklin Bridge; the Ultimate Fighting Championship Tour; and most recently the opening of the Empire State Winter Games in Lake Placid. This past year he got to combine his talents in theatrical and laser show design, when he designed and produced an animated Tinkerbell effect for two productions of Peter Pan, at Plays in the Park and Bergen County College. After Kaleidoscope Theater, Mark will be designing The King and I for Phoenix Productions at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank.

Bill Roome (Technical Director) has designed lighting and/or sound for more than fifty productions, and has worked on at least another fifty. He became interested in technical theater at Cornell University. While studying Electrical Engineering, he worked backstage on several productions sponsored by Cornell's Theater Arts department. He also worked with several student drama groups, including one that produced Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. He began working with the Summit Playhouse Association in 1984. He has been the Playhouse's resident sound and lighting designer since 1990, and has been Technical Director since 1992. Over the last ten years he has upgraded the Playhouse's backstage infrastructure by introducing a computerized lighting control system, adding digitally controlled dimmers, expanding the wiring and bringing it up to code, adding lighting instruments, adding a professional intercom system, and using multi-channel digital sound playback and editing equipment. He also created and maintains the Playhouse's web site, www.SummitPlayhouse.org. He has also worked with several other theater groups in the area, including Twelve Miles West, the Stony Hill Players, the Chatham Players, and the Florham Park Players.

Jenna Rossi (Costume Designer), an all around creative type, now devoting her talent and energy to the world of theatre, is proud to be the costume designer for Kaleidoscope's Summer One Act Festival. She is also currently designing Gorilla Rep's summer Shakespeare productions, and recently designed Floyd Collins at The Gallery Players in New York City. Jenna has assisted at The New York Stage and Film Company, The National Shakespeare Company and The Manhattan School of Music. Last fall she assisted fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi on the Broadway production of The Women. In addition to her work in theatre, Jenna works at Primal Stuff in New York City, where she assists in wardrobe styling and fabrication for music industry personalities. Jenna holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and hopes to attend graduate school for costume design.

Patrick C. Tansor (Dialect Coach) is a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama with a BFA in Acting. He has also done the dialect coaching for Ms. Bowen's recent productions of Ten Little Indians, Jack or The Submission, and Foursome. He has performed in several Manhattan theaters including The Bank St. Theater, H.E.R.E. and The Connelly Theater.