SenovvA is proud to announce that Arianna has signed on as the new Artistic Director for Bill Hanney’s North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts. With over 15 years of experience in regional musical theatre and on Broadway, Arianna is excited to return to NSMT where she began her professional career, and to, in collaboration with Bill Hanney, bring North Shore Music Theatre back to the forefront of the industry.
Arianna is currently an Associate Producer on the new Green Day musical American Idiot on Broadway and Video & Projection Supervisor for the new musical Bring it On, which premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and is now embarking on a national tour.
SenovvA’s work on American Idiot, Bring it On & [title of show] have been Arianna’s primary focus since joining the company in 2007. In addition to her work in New York and with NSMT, she continues to bring her expertise to a wide variety of regional theaters including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Center Stage, Seacoast Repertory Theatre and many more.
Because of Arianna’s unique expertise, SenovvA has expanded her producer role to include specific general management duties and consulting on all levels of the daily hands-on poduction, from concept to performance. With SenovvA, she is able to bring her theatrical and technical expertise together to create and produce for the stage with 21st century resources and innovations.
Many productions start out as a simple sketch on a piece of paper, others are simply a three-sentence concept. All start out as an idea that needs to go from the ethereal to the real. Paul is the guy who makes that happen, with spectacular results.
Paul was the founding partner of Avatar Media Design and still uses the simple tagline of “evolving context into content” for event design and management. Paul is a 22+ year veteran Technical Director and Content Producer of corporate, social, and entertainment events. He has provided production design and management services to such corporations as General Motors, Mercedes Benz, Qualcomm, Sun Microsystems, as well as hundreds of corporate, social, and special events in such faraway places as China, Australia and the Middle East.
Paul is a graduate of UC San Diego with a degree in Human Information Processing and Mass Media effects, with a minor in Theater production design. His experience runs the gamut from designing social and multinational events, to being a stage and studio musician. He is as happy calling a large international stage show as he is sitting behind a CAD station in the design studio. Paul is also a nationally published graphic artist and is in demand as a production industry technical trainer and technology consultant.
Peter comes to SenovvA with years of worldwide experience in lighting design, programming and media content projects. He’s built his career in roles of master electrician, moving light programmer, media server program, lighting designer and media consultant. He began that career traveling the world in the cruise ship industry and quickly found himself moving to Las Vegas to expand into the corporate and large-scale venue market. Over the years, Peter rose to division head of one of the largest global production gear houses and has made a high energy, client-centric, design-driven reputation for corporate, facility and entertainment clients alike.
Production credits include dozens of New Year’s Eve parties for eight of the top casinos in Las Vegas, production technical director for Toni Braxton, lighting programmer for 50-cent, Disney and Elton John in his charity events. He’s been a designer and consultant to Cirque, HP, Taco Bell, SiriusXM, the Miss America Pageant, Billboard Awards and a number of other event and permanent venue productions. His focus for clients has always been about taking their productions to the next level in practicality, technology and creativity.
Peter’s focus at SenovvA continues that love of the industry, working with corporate entertainment clients alike to design and develop their events, shows, media content and installations while pushing the envelope of design and technology.
Bringing over a decade of special event experience to SenovvA, Robert has worked in Operations, Production Supervision, as well as Project Management. His core competencies lie in the areas of theatrical, industrial, and large (and) small-scale special events.
Working as the Operations Manager for Masterpiece Productions he worked in many countries including England, France, Monaco, Germany and Mexico, with an impressive client list including, but not limited to, Taco Bell, Coca-Cola and 20th Century Fox.
For the last 5 years he has freelanced working in the United States as well as internationally. Robert’s experience includes: set and prop construction, audio and video supervision, tour management as well as overall Event Management. With experiences including the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the 2002 Salt Lake City and 2004 Athens Olympics, he has worked on events of the largest scale, managing large crews and budgets under extreme deadlines.
Frank McMinn’s loyalty to his clients is evident in every facet of his production philosophy. In return, his clients rely on him to elevate their productions from merely good to great.
During Frank’s illustrious 31-year career, he has worked with such clients as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Televised Academy Awards (19 years), the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Televised Emmys (15 years) and NBC (16 years). And this is merely a sampling.
Starting at AVW/Telav in the Dallas/Houston area, and by the age of only 24, Frank was head of their Sales Department. Frank then went on to AVHQ, where he started the Entertainment Department, and finished his tenure at AVHQ as Director of Sales. In the years just prior to SenovvA, Frank worked for Creative Technology as General Manager of the Los Angeles office. At Creative Technology, he managed a staff of 24 employees while creating their successful Entertainment Division. He left CT as Vice President of Entertainment.
Walt brings over 27 years of multimedia staging, theatrical, and digital cinema experience to SenovvA.
Walt’s career began at Plummer Auditorium in the Orange County area and by the age of 21 he attained the job of Technical Director. While working at Plummer Auditorium, he worked as a freelance Lighting Designer to Los Angeles and Orange County theater/ dance groups. Since 1999, Walt has worked as a Technical Director at Disney’s El Capitan Theatre, as Director of Production & Building Operations at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, and as an independent Technical Director for DreamWorks SKG.
Walt has worked as Technical Director at the Cannes Film Festival, the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay, and numerous domestic and international premieres, screenings, and special projects for major studios, including DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures and Disney. He has also overseen general sessions and keynote presentations for Intel & Microsoft and Pfizer/Wyeth Pharmaceutical. Walt’s experience includes producing screenings in unusual venues, such as a 3,000-year-old Greek amphitheater, as well as a 5,000-seat concert venue in Tokyo, Japan.
Walt specializes in 3D digital cinema projection engineering using RealD, Dolby 3D, and XpanD systems. He has extensive expertise designing high profile events using three-dimensional CAD modeling.
Ms. Montalvo brings over 8 years of executive and management experience to SenovvA having worked with high volume, multi-million dollar companies managing daily office needs. Her skills have allowed her to manage a staff of 120+, while handling HR, accounting, and client support.
As office manager, she’ll be handling day to day operations from planning company events to providing professional and personal executive assistance, and everything in between. Ms. Montalvo’s roll is as an intricate part of SenovvA’s success using her organization skills to assist in keeping everyone on task.
They say that discovering and recruiting talent is one of the most important abilities in business. If anyone knows that, it’s SenovvA’s founder K Lee (Kevin) Harvey. Mr. Harvey has put together an amazingly talented and experienced production team. His personal and extensive production experience doesn’t hurt either. Mr. Harvey’s career covers everything from theatrical tours, industrials, commercials, films, concerts and large-scale events, in hundreds of venues in over a dozen countries.
Highlights include an assortment of full-scale, multimedia industrials, premieres and events such as the 2002 Winter Olympic Torch Relay, Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Concerts (2001 thru 2010), along with a long client list featuring such notable companies as Coca-Cola, 20th Century Fox, NBC, ABC, In Style Magazine, DreamWorks, Nederlander Producing Company of America, Really Useful Group, and the Shubert Organization, to name just a few.
The live stage has always been Kevin’s first love. With SenovvA, he has been part of the Broadway producing team(s) for the critically successful American Idiot and 2008’s hit [title of show]. Theatrically, he’s General Managed Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan for a successful 2+ year tour and New York engagement, in addition to the tours of Camelot, first starring Michael York and then Lou Diamond Phillips, and Happy Days, A New Musical created by Garry Marshall. Additionally, he served as the Production Supervisor for the Jesus Christ Superstar Tour starring Carl Anderson. Prior to SenovvA, Kevin’s Broadway resume includes Les Miserables, Cats, Chess, The Apple Doesn’t Fall directed by Leonard Nimoy, Starlight Express, and Smile.
Highlights of his numerous National and International Theatrical Tours: Sunset Boulevard, Les Miserables, Cats, West Side Story, The Martha Graham Dance Company and the farewell tour of The Odd Couple starring Jack Klugman and Tony Randall.
He is honored to have brought together the best technicians and managers in show business today. They are SenovvA.
As a chief engineer and Systems Project Manager, Michael is in a class by himself. His specialties are project management and engineering oversight of integrated video systems for permanent installations and engineering support and production management for live events.
Put in simple terms; Michael works on such high profile, high octane projects as the Academy Awards “Oscar” telecasts, television’s “The Marriage Ref”, Broadway’s “American Idiot”, the 2010 Emmy Awards telecast and the Kids’ Choice Awards. Needless to say, this means that Michael has managed a wide variety of projections for live and taped broadcast shows, worked with large blended screens, color matched large numbers of screens/projections in the same venues, along with trouble shooting and problem solving projectors, signal paths, and support equipment.
Mr. Irwin received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Television/Radio at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and began his video career as an intern in the newsroom at KNBC in Burbank, California. Marcus got his first “real world” experience with the Home Shopping Club working as a Master Control Operator, Cameraman, Editing Assistant, and with the ENG crew.
With thousands of hours of video experience behind him, Marcus began working at Audio Visual Headquarters (AVHQ) as a Video Engineering/Projection/Video Playback Technician. Responsible for the set up and operation of live event video systems, Marcus worked on countless live events, with many of the industries premier producers and directors.
After leaving AVHQ, Marcus provided video systems engineering and design, technical direction, and video directing as an independent contractor. Among his credits are PLAY! A Videogame Symphony (World Tour), E3 for Sony, TCA Press Tour system design and video director for the SenovvA Dali Lama Project and the Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Night. He has covered meetings, presentations, special events, marketing tours, trade shows, and conventions. Also, as a Video Technical Director, he has done shows for Fox Sports West (international soccer), Sony Consumer Entertainment, Bugs on Broadway, and system engineered numerous Microsoft events, product launches and meetings.
Marcus’ most recent projects have been with NBC Special Events (Infronts), DreamWorks, Ellen DeGeneres (50th Birthday party, Las Vegas Comedy Show, Ellen’s Really Big Show, and Ellen’s Even Bigger Really Big Show), and the MTV Movie Awards After Party.
During his 30 plus year career, Dave has worked on literally thousands of live events, providing his expertise and professionalism to a wide variety of clients: from live broadcast events, to corporate sales conferences and everything in between.
Dave worked 15 years with AVHQ, ultimately becoming Director of Special Projects, where his expertise was in the areas of live video and technical direction, technical management, project management, stage management, large screen video projection and LED, video engineering, and CAD.
Before joining SenovvA, Dave spent a decade within the live entertainment industry as an independent Video and Technical Director and Technical Manager. His many skills include lighting and scenic design, scenic construction, audio systems and engineering, multi-image and film projection, multi-image programming, video projection, display and engineering, and installation design.
His credits include 21 years on the Academy Awards, 15 years on the Emmy Awards, and various Political Conventions, Olympic Ceremonies and Super Bowl Halftime shows. He has been the Technical Producer of the semi-annual Television Critics Association Press Tour for over 15 years, and has been an integral part of the event since 1981. His impressive client list includes NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, HBO, Showtime, Discovery Networks, MTV, Turner Broadcasting, The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and many other television clients. The non-broadcast clients include: Ford, Toyota, GM, Apple Computers, Microsoft, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and many more.
Known for his innovation and risk-taking in professional theater, Mr. Kimbell has received the Elliot Norton Award and the New England Theatre Conference Award for Outstanding Achievement in The American Theatre, Salem State College’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Moss Hart Award for his musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
In 2006, Mr. Kimbell accepted the Kenneth A. MacDonald Award for Theatre Excellence presented by the Independent Reviewers of New England, and was honored by the Town of Danvers with the 2007 Drum Major of Justice Award for his leadership in promoting tolerance. Mr. Kimbell has also been the recipient of the Bay State Banner Award for employing artists of color both onstage and off, and received the Actors’ Equity Association’s Rosetta LeNoire Award for North Shore Music Theatre’s outstanding commitment to non-traditional casting.
Not surprisingly, he has been involved in the development of 60 new musicals including Memphis, winner of four 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, currently in its 2nd year on Broadway.
Mr. Kimbell serves as Vice Chair of the Board for the New York Music Theatre Festival. For 25 years, he was President and Treasurer of the Council of Stock Theaters, and has served as a panelist and evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Hampshire Commission on the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Maine State Council on the Arts and Humanities, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston.
Recent productions he has directed include Our Town and Man of La Mancha for Seacoast Rep, his adaptation of A Christmas Carol, now in its 21st year, for North Shore Music Theatre and The Wizard of Oz for Prescott Park Arts Festival. Kimbell is Executive Producer of Langston in Harlem, an original musical that opened Off-Broadway in 2010 to rave reviews and won four 2010 Audelco Awards, including Best Musical. Audelco Awards celebrate excellence in Black Theater.
A Cal State University Northridge graduate, Tristan helped establish the first and only Central American Studies program in the nation. He also partnered in creating the Central American Research and Policy Institute (CARPI) at CSUN. Published twice in the Academic Journal of the Central American Studies Program, he held the position of Executive Director of SPACE (Student Productions and Campus Entertainment), which was a cabinet-level position in the Associated Student Government.
His professional career began as a freelance Lighting Designer, designing and programming for concerts, film, television, corporate, and special events. He went on to hold the LD position at Multimedia Presentation Group (MPG) and, within a year, rose to be one of the two top Project Managers in the company. In this position, Tristan traveled over 200 days a year managing events across the United States.
Tristan left MPG to work for Concept Design Productions as an Account Executive/Production Designer. He successfully spearheaded the company’s first turnkey production in its 30-year history, melding audio, video, lighting, scenic, breakouts, and stage management into one package. Now, Tristan brings these turnkey skills to SenovvA.
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