The Producers

 

BOB BYARS
Writer / Producer / Director

Bob has been in the visual and performing arts for over 50 years. He began classical voice training at age 11, and his high school summers were spent at Interlochen National Music Camp and in professional summer stock musicals in the Midwest and on the East Coast, working with such choreographers as Helen Tamiris and Wakefield Poole. While in high school, he coproduced two seasons of classic plays broadcast by Pacifica Radio and appeared in theatre productions at Wayne State University and the Vanguard Theatre.

He continued performing after moving to Manhattan at 17, and later worked in textile design, graphic design and publishing, also authoring several books. Along the way, he was a muralist and studied printmaking at Pratt Institute, as well as playwriting with Harvey Perr, dance with Kai Takei and Eiko & Koma, and acting with Arthur Storch and Maria Piscator.

He produced and directed and choreographed off-off-Broadway, and studied feature film production at The New School, also working in the early days of independent video production. He assisted production designer Richard MacDonald on a major Hollywood feature and later studied under production designer Harry Lange.

“The Marquise Project” is his first feature film.

 

 

 

TO-REE-NEE WOLF
Coproducer / Dramaturge

To-Ree-Nee began acting at the Providence, Rhode Island, Free School and went on to do roles with the Young Shakespearean Theatre while in high school. She began studying ballet, modern and jazz at the age of 14, and was already playing guitar.

At 16, she began to perform professionally as a singer/songwriter, appearing at venues adjacent to the Newport Jazz Festival, and soon was opening for Larry Coryell, Brownie McGee and Sonny Terry, performing her own material.

After studying illustration and painting at the Philadelphia College of Art, To-Ree-Nee threw the I Ching and undertook a life-changing journey to the Southwest, ending up in Tucson, where she has worked with Arizona Theatre Company, Ododo Theatre Company, and Amerikan Hoo-Doo Theatreworks.

In 1993, she traveled as Artist-Ambassador to Pecs, Hungary—sister city to Tucson—where she conducted master classes in performance and painting.

She has also appeared in Tucson productions at AKA Theatre, Borderlands Theatre, Arizona On Stage and Beowulf Alley, as well as at the Invisible Theatre, which also presented her one-woman show, “Walking Between Worlds”, in 2003. More recently, she has studied acting with Phil Bennett.

As a dancer, To-Ree-Nee was seen in the Great Performances broadcast production of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s “The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land”, and has been a guest artist with ORTS Dance, Liz Lerman, and R. Carlos Nakai.

In addition to being an award-winning visual artist who has won multiple commissions for public art projects, she is currently recording her first album of original songs, which will be released soon.

 

 

 

PJ MCARDLE
Coproducer / Camera

PJ Mcardle began his photographic career in the United States Marine Corps. He continued photographing after his tour of duty and earned a Bachelor of Arts in photojournalism. His photographic assignments include Nicaragua, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Alaska, France and the United States. Recently he has been working with motion photography and embracing the new HD technology built into 35mm DSLR cameras. Now he combines motion and still photography and is working in both arenas.

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