Christopher Windom - Director/Choreographer
Excellence Award for best choreography and an Honorable Mention for directing Central Avenue Breakdown. Dean Goodman Choice Award for best choreography for Ragtime at TheatreWorks in California’s Bay Area. Directing: The Beard by Paul Mancini, A Christmas Carol, The Three Times She Knocked, Church Basement Ladies, Clue: the Musical, Big River, Chicago, Our Country’s Good, Mo’Reece and the Girls by Jackie Sibblies, TOT! by Ian McDonald, Blood Knot, The Tempest, and Woyzeck. Choreography: Dessa Rose, Crowns, Oklahoma!, Chicago, My Fair Lady, Swing!, Gypsy, Bye, Bye, End in the Tony Award winning shows Fosse and Damn Yankees, starring Jerry Lewis. Christopher has performed on Broadway, National Tours and London’s West End. He has also performed at the St. Louis Repertory Theater, The Cincinnati Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, St. Louis MUNY, Stages St. Louis and the Sacramento Music Circus. BFA, Musical Theater from Webster University. MFA, Directing, Brown/Trinity Rep. 2012 Drama League Directing Fellow.
Jisun Kim - Scenic Design
Jisun Kim is excited to be working on this production of Central Avenue Breakdown for DIMF and NYMF at the same time. She has worked as a set designer, scenic painter and interior designer. Her set design credits include Dally with the Devil (Theatre Row), New Play Festival 2011 for LPTW, Carnival Round the Central Figure (IRT), The Bilbao Effect (AIA), Thoroughly Modern Millie (NMHS) and Browntown (2004 Fringe NYC). She has worked for several Broadway shows including Desire under Elms. MFA from Mason Gross Art School at Rutgers.
T. Pope Jackson - Technical Director - NYMF
T. Pope Jackson a multiple award winning Harlem native, completing his first award winning documentary while still attending high school. Pope is proud to be apart of “Central Avenue Breakdown” He started his own Production company Actuator Inc & Award Winning Design team Onyx Arts. Pope received recognition for advocating & educating the learned behavior of Domestic Violence through a Proclamation from the Mayor of NYC, Michael R. Bloomberg, deeming Oct 30, 2009 the "Death of a Dream" day, won the NY 48 hour Film Project(2005), worked on a Grammy nominated album with Wynton Marsalis (2006) & has Stage Managed at the World Famous Apollo Theater.For more info check out www.ActuatorInc.com
Josh Liebert - Sound Design
Recent Designs Include Ain’t Misbehavin’ (European Tour); Ragtime (Manhattan School of Music) 40 Weeks (Inviolet Rep.); Off Broadway Designs include: Emily: An Amythest Remembrance, Refuge of Lies; Surviving Billy Boy; Sessions; Every Girl Gets Her Man. Regional Designs include: Ice Glen, King John, The Taming of the Shrew, Martha Mitchell Calling, Kerfol (Shakespeare & Co.); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Studio Players); The Storm (Walking the Dog Productions); the distance from here (Montclair St. Univ.); Fiddler on the Roof, Evita, Crazy for You, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Surflight Theatre). Associate Sound Designer: City Club (Off-Broadway); The Opera Show (Kilworth House Theatre, Lestershire UK); Race for Love (Broadway Asia International/Huairou Theatre), A Christmas Story (Kansas City Rep., pre-Broadway). Assistant Sound Designer (Broadway): Relatively Speaking, Baby it’s You, Irena’s Vow, La Bête MFA: CCM; BFA: Ithaca College. Thanks to Mark, Judi and Ben for their eternal support.
Janell Berté - Costume Design
Janell is thrilled to be part of the Central Avenue Breakdown team for a second NYMF season and Korean tour. NY credits are Trav’lin,(NYMF ’10) directed by Paul Stancato, Civil War Voices (MITF ‘10) directed by Dennis Courtney, winner of 6 awards including best of show and outstanding costume design, Off-Broadway: Family Dinner (Beckett Theater) directed by Jamibeth Margolis, Plagued-a Love Story (NYMF ’09), Regional Theater : Sound of Music (John Engeman Theater) . Movie credit- Something New, (Focus Features-Hope Hanifin, costume designer). Ms Berté is nationally known for her bridal gown designs that have been featured in every major national bridal magazine. www.Berte.com.
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