RoaN
Productions produces works that
challenge, inspire, and entertain audiences through its reverence for
language, spirit of adventure, and through the staging of unique and
unparalleled new works and classics. RNP’s artistic policy includes: a
feminine perspective, a strong collaborative environment, and
non-traditional casting. Guided by a philosophy that brings light to
humanity, we are in pursuit of producing works whose potential and
beauty may otherwise be overlooked. RoaN Productions is dedicated to creating a supportive
community and
will continue to cultivate and nurture its artists throughout its
existence.  (Artistic director, director, producer) Raised in Texas, I always dreamed of launching new works and classics on an international level. Dreams do come true. Since moving to New York, some of my directing experience includes: critically acclaimed European Premiere Grasmere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Tough Guys Don't Shoot Blanks at the Fringe NYC at the Barrow Street Theatre, and Disillusioned at The Midtown International Theater Festival (picked up for an extended run & Winner, Top 3 Short Subject Plays). I am an Associate Member of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, a Lincoln Center Director's Lab Alumna and have studied with Jean-Guy Lacat and viewpoints creator Mary Overlie. Check out: www.noelneeb.com for a complete list of credits! CONTACT: noel@roanproductions.com  (co-founder, actor, producer) Having grown up as the youngest of three girls, living in Chile, Mexico and Arizona & raised by Texan parents, I’ve always been surrounded by people & places that have sparked my imagination for storytelling. Since moving to New York, a few of my accomplishments include: co-founding RoaN Productions, co-starring in film Shades of Gray, gaining international acclaim portraying Dorothy Wordsworth in European Premiere Grasmere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and is currently working on the webisode series Heroes and Monsters. I am very proud and excited to put together the RoaN Reading series & to share talented amazing actors & writers with our audiences. For more information, check out: www.rachelmckinney.com CONTACT: rachel@roanproductions.com  (Director of Communications) Jesse comes from highly collaborative and creative environments. His unique career experience - a blend of account service and corporate communications at both the global and single agency levels - gives him great insight into how all the pieces work together. His particular skill-set is leveraging his analytical skills to extend a company's brand by assimilating complex information quickly and conveying such complicated, nuanced information in an easily digestible form. Throughout
his career Jesse counseled numerous executive-level management teams on
corporate positioning, as well as on the crafting and delivery of marketing,
executive, internal, external and financial communiqués. He spent his early
career in the Philadelphia office of JWG Associates Inc, a national advertising
agency. In 1997 he moved to New York City and went to work at J Walter Thompson
Specialized Communications, the global advertising powerhouse, where he focused
on recruitment advertising. Using the next eight years honing his talents at a
boutique PR & corporate communications agency, Jesse then went on to
provide independent consulting services before moving to the client-side as the
Manager, Communications for a 157-member non-profit organization. Jesse
has also served as an assistant editor at a start-up magazine, and as a fiction
editor at Painted Bride Quarterly, an acclaimed literary magazine. This
Philadelphia native earned his BA in English from Shippensburg University, and
his MS in Publishing from New York University. He has lived in New York since
1997 and still feels it is the absolute center of the universe!
 (Literary Manager) Studied musical theatre with Kurt Weill's conductor Dr. Norbert Gingold at San Francisco Children's Opera. Around the same time, studied acting at American Conservatory Theatre. While earning her BA, she did a student exchange through Tribuwan University in Nepal. Later graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's MFA Playwriting program. More recently, in Switzerland, she studied for a Ph.D. in Film with Chantal Akerman, Catherine Breillat, and Jean Baudrillard. She has won the Mary Marlin Fisher Best Playwriting Award, Barbara Bosson Drama Fellowship, California Travel Troupe Annual Contest - 1st Playwriting and 2nd Directing. As a writer her works have been presented locally through New York Musical Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theater Club, and Playsmiths, and in California at El Teatro Campesino, and Interact Theatre. Internationally Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Scotland), Courtyard Theatre (London), The Lost Theatre (London). Whether as a dramturg, director, actress, or theatre practitioner, she has been associated with Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Cherry Pit, New York Shakespeare Festival, Young Playwrights Inc., San Francisco Mime Troupe, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Magic Theatre, Jordcirkus (Sweden), and La Cuadra de Seville (Spain). Before moving to NY, she was a university playwriting lecturer in the United Kingdom. She has appeared in several shows, SVU, NURSE JACKIE, ONION NEWS, to name a few. Last year, she was seen as Mrs. Salazar in the Fox Sitcom RUNNING WILDE. She just finished shooting WHAT MAISE KNEW with Julianne Moore. CONTACT: corina@roanproductions.com |
   
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