ROUND WENT THE WHEEL
Creative Team
Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, 2019
Frank Ceruzzi
FRANK CERUZZI (Writer) is a New York based playwright, lyricist, and high school English teacher. He co-wrote the book and lyrics to WikiMusical, which was an Official Selection of The 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival (Book & Lyrics by Frank Ceruzzi and Blake J. Harris; Music by Trent Jeffords). In 2016, WikiMusical won Second Prize in New Musical Inc.’s “Search for New Musicals”. Frank has an MA from Georgetown University and has also studied at the New School and at the Einhorn School of Performing Arts (Primary Stages). He currently teaches English at Scarsdale High School. He specializes in creative writing and American drama.
Janet Bentley
Janet Bentley (Director/Sound Design) holds an MFA in dramaturgy from the University of Iowa and a BA in theatre from the University of South Florida. Select directing credits include: The Waiting Room (Ashtar Theatre, Ramallah, Palestine), The Dark and Our Fantasia by John Patrick Shanley (Nylon Fusion), Brooklyn (Cain’s Adventure) by Mario Fratti (Theatre for the New City), Basement by Michael Hagins (Roly Poly Productions), Abu Casem’s Slippers by August Strindberg (Strindberg Rep), After Tartuffe by Judy Klass (Wild Project), and The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh (Surfside Players, Cocoa, FL). For complete CV & bio, please visit www.rolypolyproductions.com
Mike Schulz
MIKE SCHULZ (Lighting Design) is a freelance Lighting Designer and Technical Director in NYC, currently Venue Manager at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, and Production Stage Manager for That Physics Show! and That Chemistry Show! at The Playroom Theater. He graduated from the CUNY BA Program in June 2018 majoring in Entertainment Production Management. Recent work: TD; Pippin (Hudson Guild). Lighting Design; Evelyn: A New Musical (Dixon Place), Cabaret (Baruch College), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Baruch College). Sound Design; Anna In The Tropics (Baruch College), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Baruch College).
Daniel Patrick Hogan
DANIEL PATRICK HOGAN (Scenic and Properties Design) is a versatile artist who has roots in Opera and Musical Theatre. Daniel attended Texas Tech University and studied Classical Vocal Performance and fell in love with production design. Since then, he has worked as a Scenic Designer, a Makeup Artist, a Hair and Wig Stylist and a Painter. He was the Production Manager of Moonlight Dinner Theatre and produced musicals in a renovated Dairy Refrigerator and designed scenery, hair and makeup for outdoor musical theatre at the Wells Fargo Amphitheatre in Lubbock, Texas. Daniel loves telling a story and working to find the heart and soul hidden in the details onstage.
Andy Evan Cohen
ANDY EVAN COHEN (Sound and Projection Design) is an award-winning sound and video designer and composer. His New York stage credits include off-Broadway productions of My Parsifal Conductor, Pushkin, In Bed With Roy Cohn, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (MasterWorks), Our Trojan War (Aquila Theatre US Tour), and Ay Carmela! (Repertorio Español), as well as nearly 100 off-off-Broadway productions with companies such as Animus Theatre, Boomerang Theater, New Light Theater, Nylon Fusion, Red Fern, Stable Cable, Strindberg Rep., White Horse, and T. Schreiber. His national tour credits include work on Oklahoma! (Networks Broadway), The Hungry Hungry Games (Mills Entertainment), and The American Soldier (Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, The Citadel). Other media credits include music for “Marty’s Shadow”, short films “The Mall” and “Show & Tell Tango”, the web series “Off Off Kilter”, and music for PBS Documentary films and UN Radio (Africa). Andy holds degrees from Oberlin and The Manhattan School of Music. Twitter: @AndyEvanCohen
Catherine Fisher
CATHERINE FISHER (Costume Design) has designed over 100 shows for theater, dance, film, and television, is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, a New York State Counsel for the Arts awards recipient, and has been recognized with an Outstanding Costume award, Hamlet Bound and Unbound, Midtown International Theatre Festival; Planet Connections Theatre Festival (Costume award, The God Particle). Her work has been seen at 59e59th ; NYC Fringe and Prague Fringe Festivals, as well as many other NYC Festivals; The Producer’s Club; Riverside Theatre; has IMDb credits for both acting and design, and is a founding member of Honest Accomplice Theatre. www.catfisher.homestead.com
