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Neal Radice (Founder/Executive Director)
Mr. Radice is Founder and Executive Director of Alleyway Theatre. In addition to having directed or produced more than two hundred stage plays, musicals or operas during the past forty years, Mr. Radice has created scenery, costumes, or lighting for again as many productions. His credits as a playwright, music composer and lyricist include: BE YOURSELF, JACK!, BEOWULF: THE ROCK OPERA, WHAT ARE WE DOING IN BUFFALO?, CASEY’S SOCIAL CLUB, THE MISS GREATER LOESSERVILLE PAGEANT, MINIMUM HABITAT, PEER, THE PERPETUAL MOTION MAN, SHERLOCK IN LOVE, SHERLOCK ALONE, SHERLOCK FOREVER, GILGAMESH, THE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM, PAN-AMBITIONS, OVER THE FALLS, SHADOW SERENADE, COLUMBUS, TOOLEY AND MARY and ITALIAN SERENADE. Mr. Radice has composed countless pieces of incidental music for the theatre including his A PATCH OF EARTH suite, and he appears annually as Charles Dickens in his adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. |
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Joyce Stilson (Director Public Relations/Literary Manager/Artistic Director, KidShowCo)
Ms. Stilson is a graduate of University at Buffalo where she received her masters degree in Theatre and English. Her stage credits include roles in THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE, THE WINTER'S TALE, CRIMES OF THE HEART, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, TWELFTH NIGHT and numerous Alleyway productions including MORTICIANS IN LOVE, THE BOOK OF LIZ, RABBIT HOLE, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, VENUS IN THE BIRDBATH, THE VOICE OF AMERICA, THE JULIA SET, RATTUS RATTUS, THE HILLS, BEYOND THE PALE and THE CAREFUL GLOVER. Ms. Stilson directed the Buffalo United Artists production of THE CONSTANT WIFE, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s PHANTOM OF THE ORCHESTRA for their children’s series and Alleyway premieres of MODERN MATURITY, PEACEFUL CREATURES, ANSWERING NEPTUNE, POINTS OF DEVIATION and YOURS TRULY. Since 1992, she has served as Festival Coordinator of Alleyway’s annual Buffalo Quickies for which she has directed doxens of new one act plays. Ms. Stilson also serves Alleyway Theatre as resident costume designer, and Artistic Director of KidShowCo. She is a teaching artist for The Western New York Institute for Arts In Education, a member of New York State Theatre Education Association and a past panelist for New York State Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts SOS program. Ms. Stilson has twice received the New York Foundation for the Arts artist in residence award, received an ArtVoice “Artie” award for costume design, and a 2001 Pathfinders award for her contribution to Western New York’s Education system. |
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Todd Warfield (Resident Designer/Associate Director)
Mr. Warfield started his career at 22 as the youngest set designer ever to be admitted to the IATSE Set Designers and Model Makers Union, he quickly earned honors including an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences EMMY Award for his design work on the number one rated sit com CHEERS. He also designed for such television favorites as DEAR JOHN, FERRIS BUELLER and the original pilot set of Gene Roddenberry’s STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. He contributed special effects and design work to many feature films including CONEHEADS, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, BEVERLY HILLS COP III, WITCHBOARD IV and STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. Leaving Hollywood for his home of Buffalo, NY he quickly joined the Alleyway Theatre company and dedicated much of his design and directing work to the creation of new American plays, highlights include PINK FLOYD'S THE WALL IN CONCERT, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, HAPPY HUNTING, THE MAIDS, NAKED BY THE RIVER, BIG HAPPY, TAGGED and COLUMBUS. Mr. Warfield’s recent work includes numerous commercials and the set design for BUFFALO BILLS ALL ACCESS with host Steve Tasker. Mr. Warfield currently lives in Buffalo, NY in a home constructed entirely of stage sets including an Egyptian living room and bedroom he describes as ‘Louis XIV on Crack’. In his free time, he collects classic movie props, the most famous being Faye Dunaway’s dented coat hanger from MOMMIE DEAREST. |
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Kim Piazza (Artistic Director, Theatre Plus)
Ms. Piazza has been performing for nearly 20 years in theatre, operetta, commercial video, and as a solo vocalist. She was featured in the Alleyway Theatre world premieres of BIG HAPPY, COLUMBUS and WEDLOCK, and LOST IN HOLLYWOODLAND. She also appeared in the Alleyway productions of THE BOOK OF LIZ and REEFER MADNESS. Ms. Piazza was a member of the BUFFALO QUICKIES ’05 acting ensemble and performs in Alleyway’s annual production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. She is an experienced arts-in-education instructor and studied music at the University Of Buffalo. Ms. Piazza is Artistic Director of Theatre Plus, Alleyway’s resident women’s theatre company. |
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Mike Poe (Production Manager)
Mr. Poe holds a BA in Drama from Ithaca College, and is excited to join the Alleyway for the 2010/11 season. Besides stage management, he enjoys writing plays, and was shortlisted as a semi-finalist for the 2010 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theater Center in Waterford, CT. |
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Ann Perno (Stage Manager)
Ms. Perno holds a BA in History from SUNY Cortland and has worked in the Northeast and North Carolina as a theatre technician, performer and producer for the past sixteen years. A native of Niagara Falls, she lives in LaSalle with her husband and three cats. Ms. Perno joined the Alleyway Theatre staff in 2008. |
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Jessica Werner (House Manager)
Ms. Werner has a dual Bachelors degree in Theater Arts and Arts Administration from the State University of New York at Fredonia. Before coming to the Alleyway she was a House Manager for Rockefeller Arts Center in Fredonia. In addition to her work for the front of house, she essica has worked back stage as run crew, props artisan, and assistant atage manager for a variety of productions as a part of the Department of Theater and Dance at S.U.N.Y. Fredonia. She was also Stage Manager for THE BOOK OF LIZ performed by The Performing Arts Company at Fredonia. Of the shows she has worked on her favorites are PIPPIN, VICTOR VICTORIA, and THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ABRIDGED. |
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Savana Czekalski (Box Office Manager)
Ms. Czekalski currently holds an AS in Business Management and is currently an Interior Design student at Villa Maria College. She began her work with Alleyway Theatre as a technical and design assistant and will be managing the Alleyway Box Office for the 2010-2011 season. Ms. Czekalski enjoys painting, design and, in her free time, spending moments with her puppy, Lily. |
