Aztec Economy Projects: March 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

Cole Wimpee

Cole Wimpee RESUME (www.newyorkisdead.net) (www.thesandwichboxsite.org) (www.workingmansclothes.com)

Cole Wimpee produces, directs, and acts for the stage.He also associate produces new media/new technology art installations and small-scale performances. His producing credits include Binge Olympiad (Wings Theater,NY), New York is Dead (Ohio Theatre, Soho), Sodomy & Pedicures (NY International Fringe), fuckplays (Ohio / Galapagos Art Space Evolve Artist), and the 1st and 2nd Annual NYC Binge Festivals (Jimmy's No. 43). He directed Bring Me The Head of John Ford (the Brick), Sharpen My Dick (Galapagos), The Woodpecker (2007 O'Neill Playwrighting Finalist), and Cholera (CSV LES). His acting credits include IXOMIA (Crown Point Festival), Penetrator (at American Place Theatre), Kansas City Book of the Dead (Ohio Theatre), and pieces in Austin, Houston, and Washington D.C. An executive member of Working Man's Clothes Productions, Cole has interned with Soho Think Tank and Physical Plant Theatre (Not Clown, Soho Rep) and is from Dallas, Tx.

The Aztec Economy Spring 2008 - current

Co-Founder

Artistic direction and organization. Conception and producing. Marketing and event management. Team leading in various theatrical / live events for non-profit. www.newyorkisdead.net

The Sandwich Box Fall 2008 - current

Project Manager and NYC curator for Denmark’s The Sandwich Box (www.thesandwichboxsite.org)

Working Man’s Clothes 2006-2008 (2 years)

Event Planner, Marketing and Communications Asst, Asst Producer, Graphic Design

Supervised pre-production and production for multiple events including fundraisers, developmental readings, venue management, and full-length productions. Wrote press releases for numerous full productions and built press kits. Developed new and sustained previous relationships with industry contacts including reviewers and major publications listing editors. Updated and maintained websites for the company; kept patrons informed via e-blasts and newsletters. Served as point producer for several theatrical productions; managed a personnel roster of 50+ artists. Planned scheduling, finances, technical logistics, and implemented key elements of production. Created concept and designed postcards and promotional images for the company. Wrote proposals and grants for the company.

Physical Plant Theatre

Tour Manager, Marketing and Communications Intern, Accounting 2005-2006 (1 year)

Managed several aspects of major tour of production – via Soho Rep, NYC;

Assisted with marketing strategies to promote show for major press targets; Found and implemented promotional opportunities; built, bought, and maintained numerous properties; served as point person for travel issues and logistics; ran digital sound sytem.

Other companies (freelance or contract and internships)…Refraction Arts Project, Rubber Repertory, The Public Theater, Smarttix, Theater Row (42^nd Street Development), Classic Stage Company, CAP21, Esther’s Follies, ProArts Collective.

Certifications and Qualifications

New York State Fireguard

Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook / Quicken / Photoshop / Paciolan / Ticketsoft / Gettix / Tessitura

Network Solutions / Constant Contact / Myspace Layout and Design

Light and Sound boards

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree – Texas State University, 2003

Education / Training / Internships / Companies

B.F.A., Texas State University, 2003

Study Abroad Internship, Royal Shakespeare Co., 2003

Paramount & State Theatres, 2004-2006

*Ticket Services Management, Arts Administration

Physical Plant Theatre, 2005-2006

*Marketing, Accounting; Tour Manager for Not Clown (2006) at Soho Rep, NYC

Working Man’s Clothes Productions, 2006-2007

*Producing, Marketing Director, Communications

Soho Think Tank, 2007

*Ice Factory, Internship, Bar Manager, Building Upkeep

Workshops: Shakespearean Acting with Michael Kahn, Classical training with the Globe in London and the RSC Stratford Upon Avon; Commedia with Dell’Arte Institue, California; Suzuki and Viewpoints with SITI company’s J.Ed; Special Classes: Mime, Child drama, Stage Combat, NY State Certified Fireguard.

Special Skills

Graphic Design, Stilt Walking, PR and marketing, Technical Theatre, Management, Proposal / professional writing, Event Planning, Management

New York City Producing

Marfa Lights Williamsburg Secret Shows November 2008

Binge Olympiad Wings Theater / West Village August 2008

New York is Dead Ohio Theater / Soho April 2008

2^nd Annual Binge Festival Jimmy’s No. 43 / Village September 2007

Sodomy & Pedicures New York International Fringe Festival August 2007

Fuckplays Ohio Theater / Soho + Galapagos Art Space March 2007

1^st Annual Binge Festival Jimmy’s No. 43 / Village September 2006

New York City Directing

AntiGone With the Wind Monkey Town, Brooklyn May 2009

Bring Me The Head of John Ford The Brick Theater, Brooklyn June 2008

Sharpen Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg March 2007

The Woodpecker American Place Theater, NYC February 2007

Cholera CSV, Lower East Side August 2006

Men Eat Mars Bars (asst) Under St. Marks, East Village June 2006

New York City Acting

Puke marfa Lights Aztec Economy / Williamsburg

Doc Going After Cacciato Manhattan Theater Club

Knave The Queen is Dead Playwright’s Horizons

Lee Boy Kansas City Book of the Dead Ohio Theatre / Soho

Goose More Songs from the NeoFascists Secret Shows / Williamsburg

Deke Ixomia Crown Point Festival / LES

Euronymous Lords of Chaos Working Man’s Clothes / NYC

Eater Oblivia Connelly Theater / East Village

Woody Penetrator American Place Theater / NYC

Richie 1.1-1.7 Ohio Theatre / Soho

Axel Bloody Elephants Working Man’s Clothes / NYC

Dr. Death Oceanside Parkway American Place Theater / NYC

New York City Marketing / Press Release and Press Kit Composer / Publicity Director

Marfa Lights The Aztec Economy

Penetrator American Place Theater / Working Man’s Clothes

Binge Olympiad Wings Theater, West Village

New York is Dead Ohio Theater w/ Soho Think Tank

37 Stones Working Man’s Clothes

Many Worlds Red Room Theater

I Used To Write on Walls Gene Frankel Theater

Sodomy & Pedicures NY International Fringe Festival

Fuckplays Ohio Theater and Galapagos Art Space

Men Eat Mars Bars Under St. Marks Theater, East Village

More references available upon request

Isaac Byrne – WMC, Artistic Director 917-734-8206

Vanessa Sparling – STT, Assoc Producer 917-306-4694

Chastity Hodges - ATA / Ticket Services 512-692-0515

Marilyn Mithra Stone

Marilyn Mithra Stone BIO (www.newyorkisdead.net)

Marilyn Mithra Stone is a transplant from the UK and the Executive Director of the Aztec Economy - an emerging, Brooklyn-based new media/performance art/tech group. She has worked as a director, assistant director, and managing director for various underground and breakthrough performances in London including Grafting and Budding with Sheila Ghelani at BAC, The Three Billy Goats Gruff(Garlic Theater), The Hot Zone (Conspirator's Kitchen) and Fight Face (with Sophie Woolley) at Lyric Hammersmith. She was an associate for programming for Barbican's BITE'07 theater selections and assistant directed Fecund at the Chelsea Theater. As a director she has several shows that have premiered at Camden People's Theater including Urashima Taro, Late Night's Shifting Sand, Trace [Fish] 46, and most recently, Literature Do at Camden Fringe. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as an ensemble actress, she switched roads and studied directing at LAMDA. She did a year long internship for management at the Royal Court Theater and has made a career both in theater administration and music, recently recording her first album, MithraTHOPE, to be released in summer 2010 in the UK. She is excited to be in NYC now with her fiancé and with the Aztec Economy.

Casey Wimpee

Casey Wimpee RESUME (www.newyorkisdead.net)

Casey Wimpee is a short fiction writer , playwright, freelance arts critic for Hex education journal, and new media writer living with his wife in Brooklyn, Ny. His short plays included The Search Party (Texas State University showcase), Bloody Elephants (Working Man's Clothes), The Map is Not the Territory (Gene Frankel Theater, NY), What The Hell (Center Stage, NY), Hot Damn (the 2nd Annual NYC Binge Festival), More Songs from the Neofascists...(The Tank, NYC), Kansas City Book of the Dead (Ohio Theatre), Bring Me The Head of John Ford (The Brick, Brooklyn), Take Out Chinese (Wings Theater,NY) and Arms & The Octopus (Ohio / Galapagos, NY) for which he was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre award. His short play, The Queen is Dead was made into a short film by Everybody Row Films and was selected as Samuel French nomination for it's publication competition in 2008.

writer, producer, co-founder of Aztec Economy

(www.newyorkisdead.net)

459 Keap Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

williamtellact@yahoo.com

(347)-526-9142

2009

July- Pontiac Firebird Variations writer

(upcoming) Directed by Matthew Hancock

w/ Aztec Economy

The Underground Zero Festival, P.S. 122

June- Exit, Pursued by Bears writer

(upcoming) Directed by Julie Rossman

w/ Aztec Economy

The Anti-Depressant Festival, The Brick Theater

May- Antigone With The Wind writer

(upcoming) Directed by Cole Wimpee

w/ Aztec Economy

Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY

March- Fragments: Comics and Drawings by Tim Sinaguglia (art review) writer

Published by Hex Education Journal

February- Elegant Youth (short story) writer

Published by Hex Education Journal

2008

December- Amphibians writer

Directed by Jeremy Torres

w/ The Search Party

Dream. One Festival, Austin, TX

November- marfa Lights writer; lighting design

Directed by Julie Rossman

w/ Aztec Economy

Brooklyn, NY

August- The 3^rd Annual NYC Binge Festival co-producer

‘The Binge Olympiad’ at Wings Theatre

w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

- Take Out Chinese writer

\ Directed by Stephen Brackett

w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

Wings Theatre, West Village

July- The Queen is Dead (play)* (nominated for Sam French Publication) writer

Directed by Matthew Hancock

w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

The Sam French OOB Festival, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre

June- The Queen is Dead (film) writer

Adapted & Directed by Karl Newman

w/ Everybody Row Films

Brooklyn, NY

May- Bring Me the Head of John Ford writer

Directed by Cole Wimpee

w/ Aztec Economy

The Film Festival: A Theatre Festival, The Brick Theater

April- Kansas City Book of the Dead writer

Directed by Matthew Hancock

w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

The New York is Dead Festival, The Ohio Theatre

March- More Songs From the Neo-Fascist Nursery Players’ Troupe writer/director

Directed by Casey Wimpee

w/ Aztec Economy

The Bushwick Starr (subsequently @ Collective Unconscious, Tribeca)

2007

December- What The Hell writer

Directed by Jeffrey Schulman

w/ Evil Eye Productions

Centre Stage, NYC

October- Constellation Golf writer

Directed by Michelle Bossy

w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

The Dewey’s Nightmare Playwright Challenge, Gene Frankel Theatre

September- The 2^nd Annual NYC Binge Festival co-producer

at Jimmy’s No. 43 Cabaret, East Village

w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

- Hot Damn writer

Directed by Gia Forakis

w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

Jimmy’s No. 43 Cabaret

April- Arms and the Octopus* (nominated best short script NYIT Awards) writer

Directed by Isaac Byrne

w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions

fuckplays, The Ohio Theatre (subsequently @ Galapagos Art Space)

2006

September- Bloody Elephants writer

Directed by David Carr-Berry

w/ Working Man’s Clothes Productions, Jimmy’s No. 43

Kalli Newman

Kalli Newman CV (www.everybodyrowfilms.com / www.newyorkisdead.net)

Kalli Newman is a director, cinematographer, and film editor from Reyjavik, Iceland.

He enjoys collaborative projects which mix a hybrid of multi-media, new form mediia, performance (live), technology, and music. He has recently directed and adapted the two shorts -The Queen of Astoria and The Queen is Dead - the first of which was controversial enough to be banned from multiple video-sharing sites such as youtube and myspace. His screenplay, The Fart Collector was recently adapted and staged by Working Man's Clothes in New York City and he received excellent NY reviews for his visual work on Bring Me The Head of John Ford in Brooklyn's Film Festival:Theater Festival. He has experience in theatre, film and is known mostly for his music video work in Iceland and co-founded Everybody Row Films. Vid drullum i buxurnar af gledi.

Karl Newman, 12.27.1976 330 S. 3^rd Street, #27 Brooklyn, NY 11211 kalli_newman@yahoo.co.uk T: 646-246-2722

Education:

2005 - 2007: The New School/Parsons. Graduated with M.A. Degree Program in Media Studies and Film. 2003 - 2004: NYFA, King's College, London, UK. Graduated with Diploma in Film Production. 1999 - 2003: University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland. Graduated with B.A. Degree in Literature. 1992 - 1996: MR, Reykjavik, Iceland. A-levels, Secondary School.

Film/Video: 2008: -The Queen is Dead. Short Film. DV. Director, director of photography, editor. 15 min. -Bring me the Head of John Ford. Play/Video. Visuals. 30 min.

2007: -The Queen of Astoria. Short Film. DV. Writer, director, editor. 10 min.

2006: -Tveir Vinir(Two Friends) - Baggalutur. Music video. DV. Director, director of photography, editor. 3 min. -I'm leaving - KK. Music video. DV. Director, director of photography, editor. 3 min. -We Came - Hitman & Limpy. Music video. Mini35. Director of photography. 4 min. -Ristretto. 35mm sync-sound short film. Director, d.p., editor, producer. 7 min. -HAL And Dave. Animation. Writer, director, editor, sound designer. 30 sec. -Welcome 2 Reykjavik. Music video documentary. Director, d.p., editor, producer. 4 min.

2005: -The Creation of Animation. Short animation/live action film. DV. Writer, director, d.p., editor, sound designer. 5 min. -Pleased To Meet You. 16mm sync-sound short film. Director of photography. 10 min. -Geometry. 16mm sync-sound short film. Director of photography. 10 min. -My Mouse. 16mm sync-sound short film. Sound mixer. 8 min.

2004: -Lindin(The Pond). Feature Film. DV. Director of photography, editor. 90 min. -Borgin(The City) - Hjalmar. Music video. DV. Director, director of photography, editor. 5 min. -Sid - The Wedding Band. Music video. DV. Director of photography. 3 min. -Never Too Late – Skandinavia. Music video. DV. Director, director of photography, editor. 4 min.

2003: -What is your name, 41? Super 16mm film. Grip, 2nd assistant camera. 60 min.

-The Banana Picnic. 16mm short film. Writer, director, editor. 2 min. -The Birthday Boy. 16mm short film. Writer, director, editor. 5 min. -The Bird Watcher. 16mm short film. Writer, director, editor, producer. 7 min. -The Fly Keeper. 16mm short film. Writer, director, editor, producer. 33 min. -Simon and Manuel. 16mm short film. Writer, director, editor, producer. 2 min. -Stone Joe Cool. 16mm short film. Director of photography. 10 min. -Dr.Vanilla. 16mm short film. Director of photography. 9 min. -Voodoo Pony. 16mm short film. Director of photography. 3 min. -The Sad People Trilogy.v16mm short film. Director of photography. 10 min. -Dark Days - Skandinavia. Music video. DV. Director, director of photography, editor. 5 min.

2002: -The Puffin Hunters. Documentary. DV. Director, editor, producer. 35 min. -Audition. Documentary. DV. Director, director of photography, editor. 32 min.

2001: -Old Bones. Short Film. DV. Writer, director, editor. 30 min. -Froskar Berja Mig(Frogs Beat Me). Documentary. DV. Director of photography, editor. 34 min.

2000: -10 Haikus. Experimental Film. DV. Writer, director, d.p., editor. 12 min. -Flugufrelsarinn - The Falcons. Music video. DV. Writer, director, d.p., editor. 4 min.

1999: -Keflavikurrokk - The Falcons. Music video. DV. Director, editor. 4 min. -Pipeline - The Falcons. Music video. DV. Director of photography, editor. 3 min.

Acting:

2001/2002: -The Powder Keg - Djore The Lunatic. Production by The University Theatre in Iceland. -Ungir menn a uppleid - Thordur the Accountant. Production by The University Theatre in Iceland.

Music/Sound:

2006: -Brothers(Dance Theatre). Sound Designer. Production by Steinunn Ketilsdottir, choreographer. -Woman(Dance Theatre). Sound Designer. Production by Steinunn Ketilsdottir, choreographer.

2005: -Penetrator(Play). Sound Designer. Production by the Reykjavik Arts Theatre

2002 - 2003: Session musician for Deluxxe Management in London.

2001 - 2002: -The Rise of The Flesh(Play). Composed and performed original music. Production by the University Theatre in Iceland. -The Powder Keg(Play). Composed and performed original music. Production by The University Theatre in Iceland. -Road(Play). Composed and performed original music. Production by The University Theatre in Iceland. -Falkar Fra Keflavik(LP) - The Falcons. Recorded guitar and drums.

1999 - 2000: -From Keflavik with Love(LP) - The Falcons. Recorded guitar, drums, percussion. -Tartuffe(Play). Composed and performed original music. Production by the University Theatre in Iceland.

1996: -Underwater(LP) - Modfisk. Recorded drums.

Courses/Workshops:

2002: Acting course with Bergur Ingolfsson, actor/director in Iceland. Photography course with Brian Sweeney.

1998: Jazz guitar course at the New Music School in Reykjavik.

Social activities:

2001 - 2002: President of The University Theatre in Iceland.

1999 - 2002: Member of The University Theatre in Iceland.

2000 - 2001: Founder and spokesperson for Filmundur, the only commercial film club in Iceland.

1999 - 2000: President of the Moving Picture Society, the University film club.

Other skills/experience:

Worked as an assistant photographer for Bjork's photoshoot for her album, Medulla. Worked as technical assistant in the 3-D department of the children's tv show Lazytown. Good computer knowledge, extensive experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Photoshop CS3, After EffectsCS3, Final Cut Studio and Avid DV Express. Also have a lot of experience working with Canon XL1, XL2, XM1 and XM2DV cameras and Arri SR 1-3 16mm and super16mm cameras. I play guitar, bass and drums and write music. I have journalistic experience and I write film and music reviews for a weekly newspaper in Iceland called Fokus.

Interests and hobbies:

Films, music and literature in all shapes and forms. Football, billiards and puffin hunting, of course...

References:

Bergur Ingolfsson, director/actor at the Reykjavik City Theatre. beggipopp@hotmail.com Gudni Elisson, Ph.D. in literature, University of Iceland. gudnieli@hi.is Sigurdur Eyberg Johannesson, director/actor.

se.johannesson@frostros.com Jane McGee, director's craft teacher at NYFA. mcgee.jane@hotmail.com Diane Wagg, talent agent and owner of Deluxxe Management. diane@deluxxe.co.uk Hilmar Oddson, feature film director. ho@ismennt.is Phil Katzman, cinematographer. katzmanp@newschool.edu John Freitas, filmmaker/producer. freitasj@newschool.edu Melissa Friedling, filmmaker. bely@aol.com Paul Ryan, video artist/author. ryanp@newschool.edu Diane Mitchell, multimedia producer/designer. mitchelld@newschool.edu Many more references available upon request.

Aztec Economy Projects

Monday, March 30, 2009

Cole Wimpee

Marilyn Mithra Stone

Casey Wimpee

Kalli Newman

Kalli Newman CV (www.everybodyrowfilms.com / www.newyorkisdead.net)

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