kef


	Who is kef?
	Who is kef?
	kef productions	is an independent producing company that helps small theatre companies and individual theatre artists produce singular theatrical works. Rather than predetermine a season, kef productions looks for projects fueled by the desire of the individual artist. With the much appreciated help of many, Adam Fitzgerald and Lori Prince, kef’s Producing Directors, strive to raise standards and produce theatre that is exciting and relevant to both the audience and the artists.
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	Adam Fitzgerald Producing Director	Producing: Crooked - The Summer Play Festival (Arielle Tepper, Executive Producer); ‘Tis the @#$%-ing Season, Corpus Christi, School’s Out!, I Have a Better Idea, FestivaL, Blood Wedding - kef productions; Roll by Mac Rogers - Ring of Fire Productions/kef productions. Directing: With kef: Corpus Christi, V (festivaL), Why am I Always Attracted to Narcissists? (‘Tis the @#$%-ing Season), The Female Terrorist Project (staged reading); Roll - Ring of Fire Productions/kef productions. Other New York: Women of Manhattan (John Patrick Shanley) - Blank Slate Theater Co.; Everything in the Garden (Edward Albee) - Big Break Productions; Vag and the Boys (selected scenes), Deathbed, Love is Blind and The End (staged readings) - The Genesius Guild; Family Values - The American Theater of Actors; Administrative Assistant and Cabfare for the Common Man - Brass Tacks Theatre Company; Finding the Mango (staged reading) - DiverseCity Theater. Atlanta: Exposure and Splicing Genes - Synchronicity Performance Group; Cyrano de Bergerac (A.D.) - Atlanta Classical Theater; A Rustle of Wings (A.D.) - Seven Stages; Ma Crime (A.D.) - Theatre Gael. Acting: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Canterbury Tales - New Vic Theatre of London (US Tours); Wit! and A Christmas Carol - The Alliance Theatre Company; Betty’s Summer Vacation - Brass Tacks Theatre Company; You Can Do Better and Radio Play - Manhattan TheatreSource.
	Lori Prince Producing Director	Producing: Corpus Christi (Jean Cocteau Repertory), School’s Out! (Theatre Row Studios), I Have a Better Idea (Theatre Row Studios), FestivaL (Charlie Pineapple Theatre), Blood Wedding (CSV), and Roll (Producers Club II) all with kef productions. Acting credits include: Pirandello’s Henry IV (St. Louis Repertory) The Front Page (Playmakers Repertory) Hamlet (Geva Theatre Center), Key West (Geva Theatre Center) Sarah, Sarah (Manhattan Theatre Club), Lobby Hero (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), The Book of Ruth (Alliance Theatre Company), A View From The Bridge (Theatrefest), Loot and And Then They Came For Me (George Street Playhouse) and Shayna Maidel (The Bickford Theatre). Film credits include the independent features No Money Down and 212 (official selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival). TV credits include: Law & Order: SVU and As The World Turns. BFA in Acting from Syracuse University; Edward J. Greer Award for Classical Acting.
	Michael Poignand Producing Director	joins kef productions from a diverse background as an actor/producer. A founding member of Ring of Fire Productions and Chatham Light Films, Michael has produced a dozen plays, two musicals and one film. Michael’s film, The Poker Game, won Howl’s New Filmmaker Audience Appreciation Award at the New York International Film Festival. His staged festival productions include: Strange News From Another Planet (New York International Fringe), Roadicide: the album (Here’s American Living Room), The Autumn Festival (Chishama’s Oasis), as well as Roll, It must Be Love, Film of My Life and Median Line at his own FlashPoint Festival at PCII. Michael’s other staged productions have been showcased in various NY venues from Mid-town Manhattan to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As an actor Michael recently played the Narrator in the Off-Broadway run of Rush’s Dream. He also played Badger at the New Victory Theater in The Wind in the Willows. Michael’s regional credits include: Man#1 in My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra (Fulton Opera House), Stewpot in South Pacific (Hangar Theater), Michael in Godspell (Syracuse Civic Center) and the Syracuse Stage productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dragon Slayers, and pre-New York The Wind In the Willows. NY credits include: Orchidelirium (PST), Christmas Carol (PST), Principia Discordia (GTC) and Henry IV (ROF). Currently, Michael’s playing a cop in the independent film adaptation of The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe.
	Kimberly Conzo Outreach Director	Current: City Lights Youth Theatre (teacher); Educational Advisor for the LATCH program at PS 24Q. Other Credits: Curriculum Director for the Rebel Shakespeare Company; Artist-in-residence for Marblehead Public Schools and MA Dept. of Mental Health; Educational/Outreach Officer - Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland and AD for the Abbey's production of Men to the Right, Women to the Left. Kimberly earned an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College where she directed Much Ado About Nothing for the North Shore Players and Bringing It All Back Home for Emerson College. She has also earned a BFA in Acting from Syracuse University where she was a facilitator for the Young Actors Workshop for young adults with Downs Syndrome. Acting credits: Love's Labours Lost - Hudson Shakespeare Co.; Cloak and Dagger - Rough&Tumble Theatre Co.; A Wrinkle in Time - Syracuse Stage.
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