THEATRE 13

BIOGRAPHIES

PAUL ADAMIAN  is a writer and director who began his relationship with theatre in his thirties while pursuing his MA in Teaching from New Mexico State University.  There, under the tutelage of playwright Mark Medoff, he became aware of how plays are works in progress, and best written in collaboration with acting and directing workshops. In addition to writing, he has directed and co-produced several well known plays ranging from the Texas-based romp Greater Tuna to Samuel Beckett’s surreal and disorienting Play.  He has facilitated acting and directing workshops, both privately and professionally, and produced children’s theatre---shows, camps & workshops.  Paul has come to Boulder to join old and new friends, to begin new challenges, to seek new sources of inspiration, life and risks, and to immerse himself in the process of co-creation.
 
REBECCCA BROWN ADELMAN is the creator and co-director of The Interactive Theater Project at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which uses theatre as a medium for education, dialogue and as a means to create social change. With an extensive background in theatre and improvisation from New York City, she is an actor, director, and writer who performs frequently in Boulder and Denver and is a company member of the improvisational theatre company, Playback Theatre West. Some of Rebecca’s recent credits include playing Annie in “The Norman Conquest” at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; co-producing, directing, and acting in “The Vagina Monologues”; and, acting in “The War Plays” produced by The Promethean Theatre Company.

KEVIN CAUSEY has been involved in every aspect of theatre, film and television production for nearly twenty years.  A producer, director, actor and writer, his work has been seen in more than 50 productions in New York, Los Angeles, Colorado and Europe.   
As part of this work, he was the co-founder and first Artistic Director of the Public Theatre at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Among his many duties was the task of constructing and leading the capital campaign to build this theatre, in a landmarked building and museum in Boulder, Colorado. He is also a former Board member for Curious Theatre Company in Denver. Kevin received his undergraduate training at the School of Theatre and Cinema at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; he receives his graduate training at the school of applied experience, which is ongoing.

MICHAEL FRENCH has spent most of his life writing and directing his own plays including The Rainy Season, which won the Oval Arts best new play of the year in 1996. He was the Artistic Director for the Glasshouse Theatre Company in England, and directed several plays for the much-acclaimed Angry Jello Bubbles Theatre Company in New York City. He co-wrote and co-produced The Buddha Prince, which was recently performed in Central Park in New York City. Mr. French is currently writing a screenplay with the extraordinary Julia Parsley.

VENUS FRENCH has explored her dramatic nature over the years both on and off-stage. She is a natural at business, communications and marketing. Venus holds a BA in Communications from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania and an MS from Columbia University. She has been running her own home-based businesses in crafts and the healing arts for years, has extensive sales experience, loves people and is now using these skills to help run Theatre 13.

STEVE GRAD has worked as a voice actor in radio and TV, as well as performing in film and theater in California, Kentucky, Florida, Washington, D.C., and Colorado, including three productions at BMoCA. His theatrical work runs the gamut, including Shakespeare, musical theater, comedy, drama, improvisational theater, and developing an interactive children's play. He has also led improvisation workshops for actors, non-actors, and the developmentally disabled and chronically mentally ill.  He is a member of  AFTRA and SAG and a former member of Actor's Equity Association. Along with working to bring a professional theater company to Boulder, he will be performing the role of the Narrator in Stravinsky's "A Soldier's Tale" with the Boulder Philharmonic in the fall of 2005.

JAX RUSSELL started his career in Los Angeles, and over the last twenty years has participated in theatrical works as an actor or as part of the production staff in Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ireland, and Switzerland. He has played roles in dramas, comedies, musical theatre and improvisation and had a short stint on a television sitcom. He is most proud, however, of his work promoting the exploration of the human experience.

JUDSON F. WEBB, a Texas native, moved to Boulder from Los Angeles in May of 1995 to pursue a bachelor’s degree in theatre from Naropa University. He also studied acting at K.D. Studio in Dallas and

The Howard Fine Studio in Los Angeles. Since his migration to Boulder Judson has collaborated on the formation of three theatre companies, namely Theatre 13, LTO and Bohemian Dinner Theatre. He is co-founder of Dead Pheasant Films and has produced, directed, written and/or acted in over thirty projects including more than a dozen independent short films. His primary goal is to create independent work of unparalleled beauty and grace for both stage and screen.    

KJERSTI INGELA WEBB was born and raised in Sweden. She moved stateside in 1996 to study at the Dell `Arte School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake California. She has extensive training in physical theatre including Le Coq and Phillipe Gaulier. After Dell 'Arte she received her Bachelors in Theatre at Naropa University. She has performed extensively throughout the US and Europe. She has co-founded several theatre companies namely Theatre 13 and LTO and is co-founder of Dead Pheasant Films. Having been raised amongst painting and photography the multi talented Kjersti “thinks and feels in pictures and colors”. She has channeled these strengths into painting and lighting design and was nominated for the Denver Critics Choice Award in 2003 for her lighting of Beauty And The Beast at the Nomad Theatre in Boulder. She is currently creating a one-woman show which will premier at the 2005 Boulder International Fringe Festival.