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MARK ROBERT GORDON (Founding Artistic/Executive Director) is the
Founder of Off-Broadway's Do Gooder Productions, head of S-2-S (an independent film & TV production company focuses upon stage-to-screen adaptations), and his production company The Camelback Kid has several film and Broadway/Off-Broadway projects in development. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway shows and Broadway workshops and been a critically-acclaimed player on New York's theater scene for the better part of the past decade, where he has collaborated on stage with notables Lee Meriwether, Mary Wilson, Rosemary Prinz, Gil Rogers, Sylvia Miles, Len Lesser, Marvin Kaplan, Eve Plumb, Charlene Tilton, and Michael Rupert. Gordon has produced eight Off-Broadway plays, directed stagings at several Off-Broadway venues (and will direct the Off-Broadway premiere of Karla Jennings' new play Dish Babies for Do Gooder this season), and is the author of five plays: "H": Hamilton or Honour (a one-person play about Alexander Hamilton, whom Gordon will portray in New York this season), My Soul is Mine: A Runaway's Story (Off-Broadway-1995), Did You Evuh?, Nevuh!, and R'fua: Healing (slated for Off-Broadway production next season). He wrote the screenplay adaptation of the stage hit 21/2 Jews and is the lead writer and co-creator of "Next Case!", a new TV sitcom (a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional syndicated TV judge show and the relationship between a meddling mother and her independence-seeking son). Two years after his acting career was interrupted by a car-pedestrian accident, he made his return to the stage in 2001 with the national
production of Alan Brandt's Off-Broadway smash 21/2 Jews and is slated to reprise his performance
in the anticipated Broadway production and film adaptation of the play. A product of Phoenix's public
schools, he holds degrees from Princeton University, Columbia Law School, and Harvard's JFK School
of Government.
JOEL FELTMAN joined Do Gooder's management during the long-running New York production of 2 1/2 Jews. He has had a diverse career in the entertainment/media industry, serving at various times as head of THINK TANK TALENT Artists' Management, a producer/director for an entertainment newsmagazine program, an infomercial producer, a corporate video producer with several major corporate clients, a radio engineer for the NBC Radio Network, and a director of a New York JCC's Theatre/Communications Arts Department. He shares creator credit with Mr. Gordon on the new TV sitcom "Next Case."
JOSEPH C. KOENENN (Artistic Advisor) wrote the long-running New York Newsday theater column "Broadway Joe." He is a transplanted Southerner who has been a New Yorker since 1969. After earning degrees in journalism and political science, he served as a U.S. Navy officer for three years and then began his newspaper career in Montgomery, Alabama just as the Martin Luther King bus boycott was being successfully concluded. Other assignments took him to North Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida during the height of the civil rights movement. It is only recently that the last of the tear gas has washed out of his clothes. His New York career was based at Newsday and later New York Newsday, first as an editor and later as a writer, concentrating in the last six years on theater news before retiring in 1995.
GIL ROGERS (Artistic Advisor), seen on Broadway in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Great White Hope, and The Corn is Green and Off-Broadway in Frankie (written and directed by George Abbott) and (most recently) in Do Gooder's On Deaf Ears, has had a career which has spanned the countries' regional and touring theaters from Florida to Seattle, from New York to California and most points in between. He's completing his 12th year as "Hawk Shayne" on CBS' The Guiding Light. Before that he was Ray Gardner for five years on All My Children. His 19 films include The Children, The Panic In Needle Park, and WW and the Dixie Dance Kings. He is married to actress Margaret Hall. They have produced the beautiful young actress Amanda Rogers.
PETER SCOLARI (Artistic Advisor) Selected credits: founding member, Colonnades Theatre Lab (NYC, 1974). Moliere in Spite of Himself, Reflections, A Flea in Her Ear. Broadway/regional: Hairspray, Grease, Out of This World (Encores!), The Foreigner (title role, BTF Best Actor Award, Berkshire Theatre Festival). TV series: "Bosom Buddies," "Newhart" (four Emmy nominations, VQT Emmy Award), Disney's "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids." Features/MOW/episodic: Stop the World... (A&E), "The Ryan White Story," "Perfect Harmony," "Missing Children," "Twilight Zone," "Family Ties," "E.R.," "The West Wing," HBO's "From the Earth to the Moon," That Thing You Do!, Polar Express.
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