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Brad McEntire

Artistic Director

Artistic Director Brad McEntire is an interdisciplinary artist and the co-founding mastermind behind Audacity Productions. Holding a BFA in Theatre from the College of Santa Fe, Mr. McEntire's an experienced actor, director, producer, designer, educator, therist as well as a published cartoonist and produced playwright. Mr. McEntire has taught theatre arts at Richland Community College, Collin County Community College, RL Turner High School, Yavneh Jewish Academy of Dallas, Plano Repertory Theatre, Plano Children's Theatre and the Dallas Theatre Center. His plays have been performed in Dallas, Santa Fe, Buffalo, New York City, Denton and Austin. His play FOR THE LOVE OF AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST world-premiered this past summer at the sixth annual Festival of Independent Theatres, garnering both critic and audience raves. McEntire also performed his original one-man show THE LUNATIST (AND RELATED TALES OF WOE) in October 2004 at Chicago's third annual Single File Solo Performance Festival. He is currently a M.A. Theatre candidate at TWU and at work on an improvised solo performance project entitled DRIBBLE FUNK. He is an active member of the DFW Playwrights' Alliance and Managing Director of the now-defunct anarcho-theatrical sketch/improv performance troupe, The Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour.

In July 2001 he directed the first production by the North Dallas based Rover Dramawerks, Edward Albee's EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN (for which he won a Dallas Theatre "Column" Award) as well as directing and producing his own play RED PAJAMA BLUES at the Fifth Annual New York International Fringe Festival for Audacity. During the summer of 2001, McEntire interned and trained with Off-Broadway's internationally-reknowned classical troupe, the Aquila Theatre Company. In the summer of 2003 he was an offical participant in the Directors Lab West at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles. He currently lectures/leads workshops in Playwriting and Improvisation and teaches youth theatre. As of Summer 2006, McEntire resides in Hong Kong, where he teaches theatre to elementary school age Chinese children as part of an ESL program.

If not too financially strapped at the time, he can usually be found at a bar after a show and will not hesitate to expound on such topics as: the creation and reinvention of new performance techniques in theatre, humor as a culturally subversive tool, the necessity of falling in love with someone as dysfunctional as you are, the gentle tactics of revenge, the downfall of current civilization, the pleasures of frequent travel, and the strive for understanding and purposeful existence over mediocrity and day-to-day numbness. He really likes his beer and cigars (when he can afford them).

More information at dribblefunk.com or you can read about his adventures at his LiveJournal.