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The Company

Jed Bernstein - Producer. After 11 years as President of the League of American Theatres and Producers, now the Broadway League, Jed Bernstein launched Above The Title Entertainment, a new Broadway/Television production company and marketing consultancy that combines his skill at marketing and promotion with love for the theatre.

While at the League, Jed provided leadership in developing such industry wide programs as Kids Night on Broadway, the Internet Broadway Data Base, televised editions of Broadway on Broadway, creation of Broadway Under the Stars, live and televised, a corporate sponsorship program that generated $150mm+ of cash and measurable media support over eight years, and an expansion of Tony Award related sponsorships and activities. Jed also played a central leadership role in the industry's response to the events of 9/11.

First projects in this new venture have included Passing Strange, nominated for 7 Tony Awards and the smash revival of Equus starring Daniel Radcliffe. More recently, he co-produced David Mamet's Oleanna with Julia Stiles and Bill Pullman and the acclaimed Tony-winning revival of Hair. His next project is Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer winning play Driving Miss Daisy starring Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones.

Kimberly Roy Canning (Managing Director, Producer).  As Managing Director of Parallel Lines Productions LLC, Kimberly has overseen the company’s script development process, assembled its creative and production teams, managed theatrical relationships, captained its fundraising campaigns, and served as in-house counsel.  An attorney, and the former administrative partner in a litigation, commercial, and corporate law firm, Kimberly has represented a wide range of clients, including major insurance, reinsurance, banking, construction, and real estate development firms.  More recently, she has focused on entertainment law, providing legal counsel for Parallel Lines and other organizations and individuals in the entertainment industry.  As an actor, she has performed in numerous productions on the Connecticut stage, including Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie Dillmount), Sweet Charity (Charity), 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer), Dames at Sea (Ruby), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Germaine), and Chicago (Liz).  She is an active participant in arts outreach programs. 

She received her BA, with honors, from The American University and her JD from The University of Connecticut School of Law.  She attended La Sorbonne, l’Ecole de Danse à Clichy, and France’s renowned Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris.  As a producer, she has completed the Commercial Theater Institute’s Three Day New York Weekend Intensive program, Producing Workshops, Readings, and Showcases seminar, and Dramaturgy course.  E-mail:  kimberlyc@parallellines.org

Christopher d'Amboise - Choreographer. Born into a family of dancers, Christopher has had many careers: dancer, director, choreographer, playwright, teacher and educator. d'Amboise became a principal dancer in the New York City Ballet, where he worked closely with George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, dancing all the major roles as well as originating several new works. He left the company in 1983 to pursue other interests, including performing in the Broadway production of Song and Dance, which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for a role in which he only danced. From 1990-94, d'Amboise was the Artistic Director, President, and CEO of the Pennsylvania Ballet, where he presented classic repertoire as well as introduced new works by contemporary choreographers. His choreography explores the integration of text, dance, music and drama and seeks to reinforce a positive perspective of humanity. He has created more than eighty ballets for numerous international companies, including those in San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Flanders. His latest work, Tribute, premiered with NYCB at Lincoln Center in 2007. For the musical theatre, he has choreographed productions of High Society and the rock musical William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a project conceived by his brother-in-law, Terrence Mann. Television credits include two appearances on the Kennedy Center Honors, Live from Studio 8H, and the Emmy Award-winning documentary He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing. As an educator Christopher has initiated outreach programs, community development initiatives and taught master classes and workshops at schools and universities world wide. He also developed MOVING STORY, a unique visual storytelling curriculum specially designed to integrate image based drama into contemporary theatre.

Ed Hyland - Actor (Sledge) Broadway: The Man Who Had All the Luck, Festen, The Price, and Ah! Wilderness. Off Broadway: Big Doolie and Juno and the Paycock. Regional: Ford's Theatre - The Heavens Are Hung in Black; Arena Stage - Passion Play and Theophilus North; Shakespeare Theatre of Washington D.C. - Macbeth. Also, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Huntington Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Missouri Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival, among others. Film/TV: The Happening, The Caller, Asylum Seekers, The Next Big Thing, Cradle Will Rock, "Law & Order" franchise, "Gossip Girl," "Guiding Light," and "One Life To Live," among others.

James B Murphy II is the author of Promise and The Grand Design. Other plays include Seaside Dive and Caroleena. Companies presenting his work include Guardian Spring Productions, Toronto; Stages Repertory, Houston; and The George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, he has served on the executive committee of the O'Neill Theatre Center, a leader in new play development. He created the acclaimed Musical Masterworks Chamber Music Series, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

As a journalist, Murphy wrote more than 100 articles for TIME Magazine, including the cover story on the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic, and interviewed many notable people as diverse as James Watson and Francis Crick, the discoverers of DNA; Robert Duvall, the renowned actor; and Don King, the legendary boxing promoter. He is represented in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations.

He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in History and studied dramatic arts with Meisner protege Fred Kareman and voice with Antonia Lavanne. Email: jamiem@parallellines.org

John Tillinger - Director, is one of the leading directors on the Broadway stage. He spent his early years on Broadway as an actor, appearing in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1968), Othello (1970), Hay Fever (1970), and The Changing Room (1973). Tillinger's first Broadway directing credit was Solomon's Child in 1982. Since then he has helmed Love Letters (1989) with Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards, The Price (1992) with Eli Wallach, Three Men on a Horse (1993) and The Sunshine Boys (1997), both with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, Inherit the Wind (1996) with George C. Scott and Charles Durning, Night Must Fall (1999) with Matthew Broderick, Judgment at Nuremberg (2001) with George Grizzard and Maximilian Schell, Say Goodnight, Gracie (2002) with Frank Gorshin, and Absurd Person Singular (2005) with Paxton Whitehead and Sam Robards. Tillinger's many off-Broadway directing credits include Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1981), After the Fall (1984), Loot (1986), What the Butler Saw (1989), The Lisbon Traviata (1989), Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991), Sylvia (1995), and Jewtopia (2004). He also has directed numerous regional theatre productions.

Graham Winton (Randy) Broadway: A Man for All Seasons; The Tempest; Two Shakespearean Actors Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure, Age of Iron; Othello; Hamlet; (more)

 

 

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