Meet Our Creative Team
Justin P. Cowan
Director/Co-Adapter
As a Producer/Director: Producing Artistic Director of North Carolina Summer Rep in Greensboro, NC. Producing Artistic Director of Big Arts Herb Strauss Theatre, in Sanibel, FL. The Santaland Diaries (Paper Lantern Theatre Company). Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical, A New Brain, The Piano Lesson (UNCG School of Theatre). Single Rider (The University of Alabama). As a Conductor/Music Director: New York regional credits include West Side Story, The Producers, Hairspray, Cabaret, and Annie Get Your Gun. Other regional credits include Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George (North Carolina Summer Rep), Damn Yankees, Avenue Q, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Legally Blonde, How To Succeed... (Ocean State Theatre Company), South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Dirty Blonde, A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage), The Fantasticks (Florida Repertory Theatre), The Drowsy Chaperone (Maples Repertory Theatre), Always…Patsy Cline, Ethel Waters’ His Eye is on the Sparrow (Florida Studio Theatre), Little Shop Of Horrors, Something’s Afoot, A Grand Night For Singing (the Schoolhouse Theatre), The Secret Garden, Into the Woods (The Gallery Players), Zombie Prom, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (North Carolina Theatre Alliance), Caroline, or Change, Heathers, Hairspray, Into the Woods, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, A Year With Frog and Toad, Dani Girl, Cabaret (UNCG School of Theatre). Church Basement Ladies, Are We There Yet?. The Winter Wonderettes (Prather Entertainment Group), Little Women, Single Rider (University of Alabama), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Das Barbecü, Songs For A New World andThe 25th Annual...Spelling Bee (BIG ARTS Herb Strauss Theatre). He holds D.M.A. and M.M. degrees in Conducting, a B.A. in Voice, and a Doctoral Cognate in Stage Directing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Kamilah Bush
Co-Adapter
Kamilah is the current Literary Manager for Portland Center Stage in Portland, OR, and the former Artistic Assistant for Two River Theatre in Red Bank. NJ. A graduate of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she earned a BFA in Theatre Education, Kamilah is a homegrown North Carolinian who is committed to telling the varied and complex stories of Black women through playwrighting and dramaturgy. James Baldwin said that an artist’s responsibility to their society is to “never cease warring with it” and she takes this responsibility very seriously.
Clifton Chadick
Scenic Design/Digital Art
I am a New York-based scenic designer and creative director with a passion for designing evocative environments that spark curiosity, stir emotions, and ignite creativity.
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For me, theater has always been a vital outlet for self-expression and emotional exploration. As I child I’d act out my favorite fairy tales for my family with our garage door acting as a grand drape and a rusted-out trailer serving as the stage. My grandfather was a NASA engineer and an amateur magician, so I was exposed to the art of illusion and the engineering behind the magic at an early age. It was this marriage of storytelling and technical skill that really ignited my passion for scenic design.
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Over the past decade, I have cultivated my own unique style, which foregrounds the emotional landscape of a play. For ‘Only You Can Prevent Wildfires’, I placed the audience inside a burnt-out theater that was simultaneously a decimated national park. For Grant Varjas’s new play, Accidentally Like A Martyr, set in a West Village gay bar, I gave the audience a voyeuristic perspective by positioning them behind the barback mirror, which acted as the 4th wall. For my bare-bones production of 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' I spent a large portion of the production's resources creating an edible landscape of oversized candy flowers to elicit an awe-inspiring sense of wonderment, which received nightly applause upon it's reveal.
Amanda D’Archangelis
Composer/Original Music
Amanda is a composer and actress in NYC. She holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theater from The Boston Conservatory. She is a composer in the renowned BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. With Anderson Cook, she has written two musicals: The Disembodied Hand That Fisted Everyone to Death--The Musical! and Blatantly Blaine--A “Family” Musical. Both were listed as “Best Things to See This Week” by TimeOut New York. She is the resident composer of Bluelaces Theater Company, which provides theater and outreach for people with developmental differences. Her new musical The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical, written with Sami Horneff and Lisa Mongillo, was one of the winners of the Players Theatre Short Play and Musical Festival. This past fall, she had an equity reading of Fat Kid Rulesthe World written with Anderson Cook and Ben Lapidus. Fat Kid... is an adaptation of a young adult novel of the same name, and was originally commissioned by Marc Eardley.
Kimille Howard
Lead Video Editor
Kimille is a New York based director, deviser, writer and filmmaker. She is an Assistant Stage Director at the Metropolitan Opera and recently worked on the new James Robinson production of Porgy and Bess. She is the newly appointed Artistic Director of the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship. Select directing credits include: Soil Beneath by Chesney Snow (Primary Stages/59E59), $#!thole Country Clapback by Pascale Armand (Loading Dock Theatre), The Fellowship Plays (Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation), A Light Staggering by Jeesun Choi (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Tidwell: or the Plantation Play by Rodney Witherspoon II (Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival - winner), Low Power by Jon Kern (EST), BLACK GIRLS ARE FROM OUTER SPACE by Emana Rachelle (National Black Theatre), Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau (TheatreSquared) and TRIGGERED by Gabriel Jason Dean (Cherry Lane Theatre). Her work has also been seen at The Circle in the Square Theatre Circle Series, The Flea, The Lark, JAGFest, NYU, Sea Dog Theater, and Atlantic Acting School among others. Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (Assistant Director). She has worked with Des McAnuff, Rebecca Frecknall, Ruben Santiago Hudson, Emily Mann, Stephen Wadsworth, Lorca Peress and more. Recent Fellowships: New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellowship and the Manhattan Theatre Club Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship. Currently a Resident Director at The Flea Theater. She has produced shows at the HERE Arts Center, FIAF, and more.