Production Team
Producer: Chad Hudson
Director: Chip Klose
Stage Manager: Leslie Grisdale
Music Director: Peter de Mets
Choreographer: Jonathan Howard
Fight Director: John Hayden
Sound Designer: Chris Temple
Graphic Designer:  Gisela Garrett
Lighting Designer: Eric Larson
Costume Designer: Laura Frecon
Press Representative: Charlie Siedenburg, Sam Rudy Media Relations
 

Chip Klose (Director) is a co-founding Producing Director of Dreamlight Theatre Company. He began his career as an actor - proud member of Actor's Equity Association - performing roles at the Walnut Street Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, Prince Music Theater, Allen’s Lane Theater, and Foothills Theatre. His Directing and Choreographing credits include West Side Story (Annenberg Center for the Arts), the Philadelphia premiere of Sondheim’s Putting It Together (Gershman Studio Theatre), the World Premiere of Clayton Haske’s Three Little Birds (Adrienne Theatre), Godspell (Little Days Productions), Into the Woods (Lonely Sky Theatre Company), Finding Home: The Music of Ricky Ian Gordon (Opia Cabaret Theatre), and a number of cabarets, benefits, and concerts. He holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of the Arts. Much thanks to his wife, Lesley, and all his family and friends for their undying love and support.

John Jiler (book and lyrics) won the Kleban Librettists' Award for the original Playwright's Horizons production of AVENUE X, as well as the Richard Rodgers award with partner Ray Leslee. His first full-length play, SOUR SPRINGS, was the winner of a Weissberger Prize from New Dramatists and an Emerging Playwright's grant from the Jerome Foundation. His work has been seen coast to coast, at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwright's Conference, the Kennedy Center, Seattle Rep and many places in between.  As an actor he appeared at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Hartford Stage Company, and Chicago's Body Politic, where he won the Chicago Drama Critic's Best Actor Award.  His first non-fiction book, Dark Wind, was published by St. Martin's Press; his most recent, Sleeping With The Mayor, was named by The New York Times a "Most Notable Book."  As a free-lance journalist John's work has appeared in The Nation, The New York Times. and The Village Voice. He is currently at work on a novel, North Of Here, and a new musical with composer Georgia Stitt, BIG RED SUN, the winner of last year's Harold Arlen Award from ASCAP. His greatest productions, however, have been his children Jake and Stella.

Peter de Mets (Music Director) is the Artistic Director of Chamber Arts Guild, a Chamber Choir in Bucks County PA.  Peter served as the Director of Music/Organist at Forest Grove Presbyterian Church for 13 years, and is currently a teaching artist for The Mercer County High School for the Performing Arts.
A music director and conductor for over a decade, Peter served as the principle conductor of the Princeton Opera Association for five seasons.  Peter music directed and conducted performances at Bristol Riverside Theater in Bucks County, PA and at Passage Theater Company in Trenton, NJ.  He has conducted productions of West Side Story, The Secret Garden, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Working, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, Pippin, Man of La Mancha, Lucky Stiff, Bye Bye Birdie, Godspell, Merrily We Roll Along, Songs for a New World, and The Spitfire Grill.
Also a composer, Peter has been commissioned to compose choral, instrumental and theatrical music by; Central Bucks West and East Choirs, Passage Theatre, Council Rock School, Salem UCC, Susquehanna University’s Chapel Council, Princeton Opera Association, and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.  More information about Peter de Mets and his compositions can be found at www.peterdemetsmusic.com.

Leslie Grisdale (Production Stage Manager) is a native San Franciscan but now calls New York home.  In San Francisco she worked with various theatre (Magic Theatre, Curran Theatre), dance (Oakland Ballet, ODC/SF, Company C Contemporary Ballet) and opera (Merola Opera Program, San Francisco Opera Center) companies.  Here in New York she has worked on Broadway's Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, and for the Felice Lesser Dance Theatre. Leslie holds BFA in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University.

Christopher Temple (Sound Designer) is ecstatic to be playing a part in this production of Avenue X with such talented friends.  In his new career in audio, Chris has engineered sessions for CBS “Wife Swap,”  “Rap School” a new reality TV show for VH1 as well as working live venues for MTV including “VMA Kickoff 2006”, “All that Rocks 2006,”  “Daddy Yankee $2 Bill Concert,” and “30 Seconds to Mars.” A special thanks to God his friends and family for there undying love, tolerance and support. 

Laura Frecon (Costume Designer) works as a Costume Designer and Wardrobe Stylist in New York, Los Angeles and the Regional U.S. She is an Alumni of the New School for Drama/Actors Studio Drama School, where she received her M.F.A. and holds a joint B.A. in Theater Arts and Business from the University of Pittsburgh. Laura is a member of the esteemed Costume Designer's Guild as well as the Wardrobe Union for Theater, Film and Television in New York City.
Most noted Stage Design Credits include; "Picon Pie" starring June Gable; "Vincent"; "The Golden Ladder" under the direction of Tom G. Waites and "Refuge" at 29th Street Rep, New York. As a student designer, Laura's designs of "Twelfth Night" at the Pittsburgh Public Theater gained her much acclaim by critics and reviewers. Film and Television Design Credits include, "Color of a Doubt", "Life Outside of Pearl" and the children's television series, "Kid Fitness" currently airing on PBS.   Laura currently works as an Independent Costume Designer and Wardrobe Stylist as well as in the Costume and Wardrobe Department at the Juilliard School.

Eric Larson (Lighting Designer) most recently designed The Little Locksmith for the Castine Historical Society in Castine, Maine, Romeo & Juliet for Pulse Ensemble Theatre, 6 shows at the Millbrook Playhouse including Proof and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Embracing Freedom: The Immigrant Journey to America in the museum at Ellis Island, Tuesdays with Morrie at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, and the 2005 national tour of The Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker. He recently served as assistant lighting designer for the National Tour of Go Diego Go Live! for Live Nation & Nickelodeon, Durango at the Public Theater, and A Small Melodramatic Story for the LAByrinth Theatre Company. He holds a BFA in Lighting Design from Boston University. Please visit his website www.elarsondesign.com/.