Artistic Personnel

Steve Josephson (Executive Artistic Director)

Steve Josephson has worked professionally as a Producer, Director, Choreographer, Author, Lyricist and Performer for the past twenty years. His critically acclaimed and award winning works have been seen across the country and internationally, and include many American, European and World Premieres by renowned authors.

A native son, Mr. Josephson is a graduate of Laguna Beach High School, and attended USC with scholarships from the Festival of Arts in both Theatre and Dance. His association with USC extended for 20 years as he became a Producer and the Resident Director/Choreographer and a Playwright in Residence with Festival Theatre USC/USA, a repertory company that attends the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe. For Festival Theatre he directed the European premieres of A. R. Gurney's A Perfect Party, Christopher Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You, Alan Menken's Weird Romance, Harold Arlen and Truman Capote's House of Flowers, William Finn's March of the Falsettos, Kenneth Lonnergan's This is Our Youth, as well as his own production's of Tea & Crumpets and The Aspern Papers.

In 2002 Mr. Josephson began a two-and-a-half year project in conjunction with Lucasfilm, Ltd. He produced the wildly successful production of Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes. SW30 was presented at the Lucasfilm Star Wars Celebration II in Indianapolis, Indiana and then subsequently in Los Angeles for the media release of the Star Wars episode II DVD. Following this production he produced the long-running production at the Coronet Theater in Los Angeles, and finally a performance for Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center.

In New York, he wrote, directed and produced the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway farce Some Summer Night which subsequently won the 1992 New American Musical Writers Festival. He also directed productions at NYU and for Circle Repertory. In Los Angeles, he produced and directed the West Coast premiere of Weird Romance, recipient of a Dramalogue Award. For Scottsdale's Ensemble Theatre Company he directed productions of Loot, The Lonesome West and 2 1/2 Jews, which later performed in Baltimore's Gordon Center for the Arts. In San Francisco, his production of Tea & Crumpets, which he produced, directed and authored, won the 1998 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical.

His eclectic background has brought him work crossing beyond normal boundaries. For Fox Sports and Primeticket he wrote and directed the televised USC Inaugural Sports Hall of Fame Induction hosted by Frank Gifford, which included his writing the last public address for former president Ronald Reagan. As a faculty choreographer for USC's Dance Theatre and as an original member of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre, his choreography was chosen as part of the inaugural International Modern Dance Colloquium in Mexico City.

In May of 2004, Mr. Josephson founded Gallimaufry Performing Arts as the culmination of his work in the performing arts.

Lisa Morrice (Associate Artistic Director for Music)

Sean Greene (Artistic Director, Gallimaufry & Greene)
At 19, Sean Greene began dancing at Pierce Junior College. Three years later, he joined the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company, where, as Principal Dance and "Master Teacher" he danced and taught all over the world for 19 years. In 1978, he appeared on the cover of Dance magazine and in 1980, received the Pasadena Performing Artist of the Year award. In 1988 Sean left the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company to direct Transitions Dance Company and the Advanced Performance Course at the Laban Centre in London for the next six years. In 1994, he served as Rehearsal Director for the Phoenix Dance Company in Leeds, before returning to the United States. In 2003, Sean was nominated for a Lester Horton Lifetime Teaching Award. In 2004, his duet from “La Famiglia del Inferno” was reconstructed and nominated for a Lester Horton Award. He now teaches at Chapman University.

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