Howard Olah-Reiken (Visual Media Design) is excited to be working with the amazing creative team of A Brooklyn Boy. He’s worked with Brad Peterson and Jordan Battiste, separately, on various theatrical and technological endeavors, and is grateful to join forces with both of them on this compelling, important piece. Howard is a theater producer, investor and occasional performer. He is also president of Preferred App Consulting, a software company that creates Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experiences for theatrical and non-theatrical enterprises.
Max Selfridge (Stage Manager) is a recent Brooklyn Tech graduate. He previously stage managed The Bench at Cherry Lane Theatre, and is also currently the stage manager for The Bench’s run at East Village Playhouse. Max is excited to be gaining professional theater experience in stage management, lighting, and sound before attending university in the fall.
Reed Ridgley (Company Manager) currently works as the Development Manager at Cherry Lane Theatre. Reed previously held management roles for the Vineyard Theatre, Classic Stage Company, the BAM Next Wave Festival, and The New York Musical Theatre Festival. His production highlights include The Scottsboro Boys (world premiere), The Book of Mormon (workshops), The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel, Carrie (Lucille Lortel Theatre), A Boy and His Soul by Colman Domingo, Wig Out! by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Avenue Q (world premiere), and [title of show] (world premiere). Reed is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a proud member of the teaching staff at Modo Yoga NYC.
Don Hoffman (Press) is the co-founder of East Village Playhouse. He is also a two-time Emmy Award winning producer, television reporter and host and is a Senior Vice President at DKC Public Relations in Manhattan. He began his journalism career in Los Angeles, California at KNBC and later moved on to Milwaukee, Wisconsin--where he reported for CBS 58 News for more than five years. He has extensive background in health, arts and nonprofit media coverage as a special projects producer. In addition, Hoffman was the Director of Communications and Public Affairs for Milwaukee Public Schools where his efforts won several national PR media awards. Hoffman is a native New Yorker and a product of the New York City Public School system. In his spare time, Hoffman is a published Scholastic and Peek-A-Boo Publishing Group children’s book author, 16 times over. His title A Very Special Snowflake sold more than 1.5 million copies since its release Nov 2008.
Emily McGill (Press) is a publicist with nearly a decade of experience working in entertainment in New York City. She has represented the Tony Award-winning productions of A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington, Memphis, and Billy Elliot, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock and CATS, George Takei’s Allegiance, This Is Our Youth, Rock of Ages, Ghost, Elf, and First Date. Since that start, she’s expanded out to other forms of entertainment, including music, film and television, and worked with companies large and small, from Disney, HBO, Amazon Studios, Fathom Events, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Westfield Corporation to boutique talent agencies, internet startups, non-profits, string quartets and male strippers. www.EmilyMcGill.Rocks
Siobhan Kavanagh (Press) is an award winning TV, Radio and Content Producer from Ireland. Chosen as a "One to Watch" by the prestigious Edinburgh Television Festival in 2014, Siobhan has worked extensively with National UK and Irish Television and Radio Broadcasters including BBC, TG4 and RTÉ. Now based in New York, Siobhan works as the Head of Production at The CityKids Foundation and was part of the core team that opened the East Village Playhouse. She is a fluent Irish Gaelic Speaker and she produces Irish Gaelic Events in New York. She also regularly contributes to BBC and RTE programming a guest speaker, reporter and panelist.
Megan Ching (Production & Business Manager) is a senior at New York University in the Gallatin School of Individual Study, studying entertainment producing and media studies. Most recently, she worked for socially conscious theater company Culture Project as an Associate Producer, producing two week variety series Prologue to Progress. She has also worked with film distribution upstart Hewes Pictures, and Broadway PR firm Boneau/Bryan-Brown. Her credits include Assistant Producer for One Way or Another Productions’ upcoming feature film 2050, and Producer for Fur, a short film directed by Ibrahim Beyah.
