CREATIVE TEAM

SUSAN RUBIN, Writer (Facebook)

SUSAN RUBIN has worked as a playwright, performer and producer in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore and Los Angeles. Recently, her plays have been seen at New York Theatre Workshop, Baltimore Center Stage, the Evidence Room and Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. She recently co-produced her critically acclaimed original play, BITCH to sold out audiences at the Bootleg Theater.

Since 1988, Rubin has been the Artistic Director of the Indecent Exposure Theater Company (IndEx). IndEx was in residence at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, (LATC) from 1992 through 2001. The Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department (LACAD) co-produced her original plays including SARAH’S STORY, MYSTERIES IN A SILVER BOX, club TERMINA , and LIFE & DEATH: THE VAUDEVILLE SHOW which was presented at an International Theater Festival in Cuba. Rubin is the recipient of numerous OVATION, DRAMALOGUE, GARLAND & LA WEEKLY awards and nominations.

She has collaborated on her work with nationally acclaimed theater creator Anne Bogart, as well as Morgan Jenness, David Schweizer, Chay Yew and Mark Bringelson.

In addition to playwriting she has written 10 documentary shorts on the subject of women’s rights, racism and equality for the LGBT community. These have been seen on hundreds of college campuses, and in special committees at the United Nations and among US Congress members.

MARK BRINGELSON, Director (IMDB)

MARK BRINGELSON directed the world premieres of Susan Rubin's BITCH, Tom Jacobson's BUNBURY, THE FRIENDLY HOUR, and CYBERQUEER, Larry Fineberg's THE CLAIRVOYANT, Michael Kearns' WHO'S AFRAID OF EDWARD ALBEE, Donald Krieger's THE TESLA PROJECT, Tony Valenzuela's BAD BOY NEXT DOOR, Guillermo Reyes' SIRENA QUEEN OF THE TANGO, Mimi Seton's BLUE CORRIDOR, etc. He directed the American premiere of Meredith Oakes' THE NEIGHBOR, the 25th Anniversary Production of Lanford Wilson's RIMERS OF ELDRITCH, and major revivals of Mark Savage's BALLAD OF LITTLE MIKEY, STEAMING, etc. His stage work has garnered major awards, including LA Weekly Awards, Ovation and LA Drama Critics Circle nominations, and a GLAAD nomination for Best Play of the Year for BUNBURY. He wrote and directed the neo-noir film, OBEDIENCE, and directed two Pilot projects for HBO, TUG & BUSTER based on the underground comic books, and THE CAVEMAN with Tim Curry. He also directs music videos, as well as live projects, events, and shoots for the fashion industry.

MICHAEL J. BEAHM, Stage Manager

MICHAEL J. BEAHM has been stage managing and directing theater throughout Los Angeles for the last several years. He has been proud to work on a variety of Ovation Award winning shows, including: THE WOMAN IN BLACK (Coronet Theater), THE BIRD AND MR. BANKS (Road Theater), and THE FRIENDLY HOUR (Road Theater). In New York, he assistant directed a staged reading of CHANG AND ENG for the New York Musical Festival. Currently, in addition to stage managing ABOVE THE LINE, Michael has been teaching children aged 6 - 18 acting on camera skills.

ADAM SOCH, Cinematographer (Website, IMDB, Facebook)

Adam fled communist Eastern Europe in 1980 to seek creative freedom in the United States. He has been lauded by the media for the "stunning, remarkable and compelling" images that are a hallmark of his films and theatrical productions, as well as his editing style. With director Reza Abdoh, Mr. Soch designed projections for The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice, Bogeyman, The Law of Remains, Tight Right White, Quotations from a Ruined City. The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has introduced images of his work to their study collection.

For television, Mr. Soch is one of the four originators of the ARTS Channel's Classic Arts Showcase, a program broadcast nationally 24 hours a day featuring the classic arts of music, ballet, opera, theater, documentary and dance.

Over the past five years, Mr. Soch has created five films with director Christopher N Rowley both narrative and documentary. Collaborated with Indecent Exposure and Susan Rubin for the past 15 years.

JEREMY PIVNICK, Lighting Designer

Off Broadway: THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES (Westside Theatre); Other NY: GOOD BOBBY (59E59 Theatre), CORPUS CHRISTI (Rattlestick Theatre), MOSCOW (Connelly Theatre); Regional: WINTER WONDERETTES (Laguna Playhouse), THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES (Laguna Playhouse and Northlight-Chicago), TRANCED (Laguna Playhouse), TALES OF A 4TH GRADE NOTHING (South Coast Rep), DOUBT (Pasadena Playhouse); International: CORPUS CHRISTI (Edinburgh and Dublin); Los Angeles credits include over 200 productions with companies like the Colony Theatre, Theatre @ Boston Court, Rubicon Theatre Company, East West Players, Falcon Theatre, International City Theatre, Echo Theatre Company, Playwright's Arena, Robey, Son of Semele, and many others. Awards include: 2 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards (17 nominations), 4 Backstage West Garland Awards and the LA Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement.

KEN ROHT, Songwriter (Website)

KEN ROHT is a Los Angeles-based artist, most recently commissioned by Center Theater Group to create a song and dance spectacle, currently in the workshop phase, and is a recipient of a 2010 COLA Grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Ken is the creator of the yearly holiday musicals THE 99¢ ONLY SHOWS, now in its seventh year. He was the recipient of the 2003 Audrey Skirball Kenis TIME Grant, awarded to only five others in the country. Ken has been granted and/or commissioned by Bard Summerscape (NY) L.A. County Cultural Affairs, Rockefeller Foundation, Durfee, Dance Theater Workshop, California Arts Council, and Bootleg Theater. His one-act opera LAST RESORT opened REDCAT's Workshop Festival. Ken also choreographs for other directors, notably at the Getty Villa, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, South Coast Rep, Great Lakes Theater Festival and Lookingglass in Chicago. As a performer Ken has worked with Bill Viola, Paul McCarthy, Reza Abdoh (for whom he was also a choreographer for seven years), and sang the principle tenor role in a micro-tonal opera by composer John Eaton. He stars in a feature length silent film that accompanies the concerts of composer David Soldier. Other performance experiences include a rock opera with Grace Jones and Billy Zane, and singing Ancient Egyptian text as part of the the Tut/Egyptian antiquities exhibit that is touring the world.

JOHN ZALEWSKI, Sound Designer (Website)

John Zalewski is a sound and visual artist, designer and narrative scorer based in Los Angeles. Theater awards include Ovations, Garlands, LA Weeklys and even two of the very last Dramalogue Awards. He’s a grateful alum of the TCG/NEA Designer Fellowship and has designed and scored for institutions like The Humana Festival, LA Phil, CenterTheaterGroup, South Coast Rep, Geffen, Pasadena Playhouse, EastWestPlayers, LATC, Boston Court, Redcat, Actors’ Gang, Evidence Room, Padua Playwrights, CircleX, NY Fringe, and sundry others in LA and NY. Upcoming are Circle X’s world premiere of Sheila Callaghan’s LASCIVIOUS SOMETHING, several instances of LATC’s 2010 season. He also scores moving pictures and is jiggered to help Ms. Rubin accomplish some more rude theater.

BOOTLEG THEATER (Website, Map, E-mail)

BOOTLEG IS A SPACE FOR ART Our mission: to capture the zeitgeist of contemporary theater by developing and producing new work, and by nurturing relationships with established and emerging artists and other cultural organizations.

To apply contemporary theater practice to previously produced plays that fit our criteria which are: a play has to be one or more of the following: transportive, connected to the heart, escapist, insightful or thrilling.To produce artistically and culturally diverse performing arts and film programs.To become a greater presence within the cultural life of Los Angeles by having a space that works for theater, dance, music and film.

Bootleg is a hybrid theater model. Bootleg engages with its community in three ways: by presenting the work of an existing artist group without a venue, by co-producing with a group of artists who have a work-in-process but are unable to finish it due to lack of resources or space, and producing, by either commissioning individual artists to write a new work or by collaborating with the writers of a recently completed piece. Whether presenting, co-producing or producing, Bootleg curates these works to insure high artistic standards and brave, boundary pushing subject matter.

PIPER FERGUSON, Production Photographer (Website)

In all of PIPER FERGUSON’s work there’s an electric relationship between high style and pure spontaneity. Whether she’s shooting a musician or politician, she looks through a rock ‘n’ roll lens, producing images that are compelling, bold, occasionally surreal and always alive. Her secret, says Piper, is simple: at heart she’s still as much a fan as she is a photographer and director. And her appreciation for her subjects has led to some pretty unforgettable moments – hanging out with Joe Strummer at the Chateau Marmont, filming a video for her friend Ed Harcourt in the Nevada desert, or photographing Steve Jones and Billy Idol together for the cover of SWINDLE MAGAZINE, a gig she calls “the most full circle life experience I’ve ever had.”

Born in Petaluma, schooled in San Francisco and living in Los Angeles for the last decade, Piper is a California girl whose visual sensibility was forged by cutting edge ‘80s fashion and the hyper-reality of MTV. Although her photographic heroes – Ellen von Untwerth, Patrick Hoelck, William Eggleston, David Bailey – have very different styles, she and they all share a meticulous attention to color and an innate sexiness.

Early on Piper felt an affinity for British culture, and in 1996, she and a friend started the Brit pop/Mod/Indie club Café Bleu in L.A. that set up the new styled platform that many new clubs use today. She booked bands like The Dandy Warhols, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, BRMC, Maroon 5 and many other local acts have graced the stage. Café Bleu is where Piper began shooting many bands of the time, including some of the biggest British acts like Richard Ashcroft and Supergrass. Café Bleu eventually morphed into a super club called; Bang, which is still thriving today on Hollywood Blvd every Saturday night with over 800 souls a week.

Recognizing her obvious rapport with musicians and an ability to work on the fly in Levi’s hired Piper to photograph bands in a makeshift studio at the biggest music festivals in America, including SXSW, WMC, The VMA’s and CMJ. Over the course of four years she estimates that around 400 Levi’s clad artists have mugged for her camera. A film project, also initially commissioned by Levi’s, inspired the indie rock documentary OUR TIME: THE SEARCH FOR CHERRY RED A story of the indie music scene through the eyes of a music photographer and finding herself through the process. She’s currently editing the story.

In 1999 Paul Tollett of Goldenvoice had Piper assemble the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival film team. She gathered her friends who had shot music videos for her in the past with bolex’s, 16mm, video cameras, a very limited budget and they set out to start what became the Coachella Movie of which she was credited Associate Producer. Piper has photographed Coachella every year since it’s inception and her live photos can be found on the DVD.

Piper has also been directing indie music videos since 1997 which were initially photographed by her mentor and teacher Matthew Libitique, the cinematographer for Pi, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, THE FOUNTAIN, IRON MAN 1 & 2 and many more.

Her latest Video which is still in post production, is for UK Band Amusement Parks On Fire. This is the first music video ever shot on a 360 degree camera.

Aside from the many music videos on her plate these days, In the last 3 months Piper has photographed a beautiful spread featuring Devendra Banhart for Mojo Magazine, Dead Mans Bones featuring Actor Ryan Gosling also for Mojo, The New Cover of Filter for Winter Featuring Julian Casablancas. She has also been chosen by Sam Beam and Howard Greynolds to develop a book project on Iron And Wine over the years to come which she has began shooting.

This summer the Lucie Foundation, who’s mission is to honor master photographers and cultivate emerging talent, asked Piper to participate in their summer series where they featured many music, fashion, fine art photographers.

“I like to think about what makes something art,” says Piper. “Every time I do something my approach is different, and because of that I capture what is unique about each person.”

KAREN JORDAN, Scenic Painter

Karen is a California native and a graduate of the Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy. She has been a Paint Intern with the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts (Santa Maria and Solvang, CA) for several seasons.

JESSICA AMADOR , Scenic Painter

Jessica is a San Diego native and a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts. She currently does freelance work with the Barkley Theatre in Irvine.

BRADFORD BISSEY, Website Designer

Bradford is thrilled to telecommute from his home studio in Denver to work once again with INDECENT EXPOSURE. A self-trained Multimedia Designer/Producer, Bradford's formal education includes Theater, Film and TV Production, and a BA in Communication from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He's had the pleasure of working on thousands of Multimedia projects, big and small, over the past 22 years including advertising, graphic, web and video design with many wonderful clients including Theater Companies (INDECENT EXPOSURE and Ken Roht's ORPHEAN CIRCUS), several nightclubs and artists as well as providing 10 years of design and management for a Federally funded Collaborative Environmental Science website (among many, many others.)