Board of
Directors

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Rajendra Ramoon
Maharaj Producing Artistic
Director |
Mr.
Maharaj is civil and arts activist.
Rajendra is the recipient of several prestigious grants
and awards including National
Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career
Development Program for Directors TCG New Generations Grant
in partnership with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, the
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Brooklyn
Arts Council Grant,
Puffin Foundation and Time Warner Diverse Voices Fund, Van
Lier Directing Fellowship. He is also the recipient of the Woodie
King Jr. Award for Outstanding Direction
and of four
AUDELCO awards
for his direction and choreography and fourteen
AUDELCO nominations
over his career. Mr.
Maharaj was the Assistant to the Director on the Tony Award
Winning Broadway revival of A
Raisin in the Sun
at the Royale Theatre. Rajendra is the Associate Artistic Director of Syracuse Stage.
He has held artistic residencies with The Public
Theater, Freedom Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Crossroads
Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, Arkansas Repertory
Theatre and Amas Musical Theatre. Mr.
Maharaj is the Co. Founder and Director of River Voices, an
African American and Latino Playwrighting festival committed
to developing the next generation of minority playwrights, in
collaboration with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre.
His regional credits include Freedom Theatre, Actors
Theatre of Louisville, St. Louis Black Rep, Arkansas Repertory
Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Prince Musical Theatre,
Theatre of the Stars, The Goodman Theater, Syracuse Stage, and
New London Barn Playhouse.
His New York City credits include the Public Theatre, Classical Theatre of
Harlem, Lark Play Development Center, New Federal Theatre,
Second Stage, Rebel Theater, Making Books Sing, and Here.
He is a former director in training of the daytime Emmy
Award winning directing team at ABC’s All My Children.
Mr. Maharaj was a founding member and the Producing
Artistic Director of Rebel Theater.
He has been a visiting lecturer at Carnegie Mellon
School of Drama, where he taught directing and acting.
He
has written several plays including It
Happened In Little Rock, Mississippi Night,
Diss Diss & Diss Dat, Twenty-Five,
Gray and BlackfootNotes. He is the
Co.-Conceiver of three spoken word plays Exposures,
History of the Word, and Union Square. Academically he holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts in
Directing from CUNY Brooklyn College.
Mr. Maharaj is an alumnus of Lincoln Center Directors
Lab, a member of Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers, Dramatists Guild of America, Negro Ensemble
Co., and the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People. Mr. Maharaj has served as a panelist for the
National Endowment for the Arts and Theater Communications
Group.
Mr.
Maharaj has been featured in the American Theatre Magazine,
Yale Review, New York Times, The NAACP Crisis News, Chicago
Sun Times, Ebony, Arkansas Times, Uptown Magazine and Variety
for his work in the American theater.
He is currently represented by Bret Adams Ltd., Mark
Orsini and Bruce Ostler agents 212-765-5630.

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Winston Batchelor Executive
Director |
Winston
Batchelor is
a a writer working as poet, playwright, editor, and short story
author.
He has worked in theater production as coordinator, graphic designer, assistant director, and as production assistant for Brooklyn College Theater Department, Black Goat Entertainment, New Federal Theater, 2060 Inc., and La Mama
E.T.C. Some of his writing projects have included his short story and screenplay
Early October, his play Death of the
Family, and his recent work as editor and playwright assistant
on It Happened in Little Rock. He is the author of the poems "A Touch of Destiny" and "Essence of Existence" published fall 2005 from his poetry collection,
Twilight Poetry, and he co-authored Union Square at the
Kennedy Center's Artist-in-Residence program in Washington, DC
(July 2005). Winston is a founding member and Executive Director of Rebel Theater Company
Inc.
As an actor,
Winston has performed in
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, West Side
Story, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Julie
Johnson, and White Nights which opened at La Mama E.T.C. Winston is a signed model for The Morgan Agency (Los Angeles, CA).
Academically, he is a June 2005 CUNY Brooklyn College English Honors graduate receiving his
B. F. A. in Creative Writing with a concentration in Fiction and a minor in Theater.
Winston is a proud member of the
Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society and the
Golden Key Honor
Society.
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Nick Petrie Associate Artistic
Director |
Nick
Petrie is a co-founder and the Associate
Artistic Director of Rebel Theater Company Inc. Producing credits
include: History of The Word, which premiered
at the Tony Award Winning Crossroads Theater, NJ, Rasa Theater
Company’s Abortion and The End
Apurnas. Currently he is the lead producer of the highly anticipated
docudrama It Happened In Little Rock which is scheduled
for the 2009 off-Broadway season.
He
has worked extensively as an Assistant Director at: The Fox
Theater (Atlanta, GA) Dreamgirls with Jennifer Holiday,
Rebel Theater Companies Ghosts, The Maverick
Theatre Exposures, Ensemble Theater Studio Blackfootnotes,
Rasa Theater Company Abortion and Movie
Man, Paul Robinson Theatre Jamaica, and at the
Actors Theatre of Louisville Classyass and Nightswim. He
is currently slated to Direct Rebel Theater Companies
production of The Black Doctor for their 08' Season.
As
an actor, Nick has worked in Theatre, Film & Television.
Recent credits include Arkansas Repertory Theater Actor number
6 in It Happened in Little Rock, Lark
Playwright Development Center as Casey in Breathe and
Agim in Man Measures Man.
Film
credits include: Target Practice and PotLuck. Television
credits include: Strangers With Candy. As a
recording artist, Nick was a featured performer/guitarist in
the film PotLuck, and was also a member of the Nervous Cabaret.
Nick
is a certified producer with Brooklyn Public Access Television
and is the director of "On Da Money," a finance talk
show. In addition to this theatrical work he works with
culpepper/williams, a film production company and is currently
developing new Film and Television projects.
In
addition to his work in entertainment Nick was an Analyst
at Credit Suisse a Project Manager at UBS and has worked at
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank in
numerous capacities. He also worked at Miramax Films in the
Marketing and Advertising department for the "Bridget
Jones Diary" and "Iris" campaigns.
Academically,
Nick holds a BA in Theatre and English from The
University of Vermont (UVM). While attending UVM he studied
Dramaturgy with theatre scholar George B. Bryan and attended
the Eugene O'Neil Theatre Center in Waterford CT (NTI).
Staff

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John Pollard Resident
Scenic Designer
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John Pollard is the
Resident Scenic Designer of Rebel Theater Company Inc. Selected Theatre - Off
Broadway: Broadway Remix (St. George Theatre);
Diss Diss & Diss Dat (Henry Street Playhouse);
The White Whore & The Bit Player (Theatre Row
Theatre); Off-Off-Broadway Premiers: Exposures
(Baruch College), Love Soup (Sanford Meisner Theatre),
Autoeroticism in Detroit (Blue Heron Arts Center),
Beeping Henry (30th Street Theatre), Captains &
Courgae, Barking Sharks, Life Happens (T.
Schreiber Studio); Regional / Opera: Underneath The
Lintel, Jesus Hopped The A Train, The
Illusion, I Am My Own Wife, Dog Stories
(Stageworks/Hudson); Merrily We Roll Along (Yale
Dramatic Association); Suor Angelica, Gianni
Schicci, Die Fledermaus, Gondoliers,
Brigadoon (Brevard Music Festival, NC); Pirates of
Penzance, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to The
Forum, Die Fledermaus (Light Opera Oklahoma); and over
nine productions at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. TV
Production Design: Whitney Houston, Jessye Norman, MTV,
House & Garden; TV Art Direction: 2001-2002 Tony
Awards (CBS), Law & Order Original Series
(NBC), The Bedford Diaries (Warner Bros.). John is a
graduate of Purchase College and his website can be viewed at
http://www.jpollard.com/

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Leslie Bernstein Resident
Costume Designer
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Leslie
Bernstein is the Resident Costume Designer of Rebel
Theater Company Inc.,
Off-Broadway
credits include; Brothers Booth at the Samuel
Beckett Theatre, The White Whore and The Bit Player at
Theatre Row Theatres, Women’s Work at the Phil
Bosokowski Theatre and Hard Feelings at the Women’s
Project Theatre. Regionally, Leslie has designed The
Opposite of Sex at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco,
History of the Word
at Crossroads Theatre in
New Jersey, and recently for Arkansas Reparatory Theatre,
Intimate Apparel. Off-Off-Broadway credits
include: Bad Girls by Joyce Carol Oats, and Love
In The Age Of Narcissism, at the Directors Company, The
Marathon at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Beach
Plays and First Course at H.B. Playwrights, The
King of Clocks and Life’s a Dream at Here Theatre.
She has designed several plays for the Terry Schreiber Studio
including Hedda Gabler, The Big Knife, The
Happy End, Hopscotch, Shooting Gallery,
Hot L Baltimore, Loot, Life Happens,
An Ideal Husband and A Month in the
Country.
While
resident designer at the Brevard Music Center in North
Carolina, Leslie's credits
included the operas: Abduction From The Seraglio,
Cenerentola, Romeo et Juliette,
and
A Midsummer Nights Dream. Leslie is the
currently the assistant costume designer at
Law
and Order. Other Television credits: All My
Children, Guiding Light, and Dellaventura.
Film credits include: The Opponent,
Stepmom, Private Parts, Rounders and
Godzilla. Leslie is a graduate of Purchase
College.

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Blaise C.
Hancock Marketing & Development Director |
Blaise C. Hancock is
the Marketing & Development Director of Rebel Theater Company Inc. Mr. Hancock has over 15
years of marketing development experience, including: creation
of the first online prescriptions ordering system in the US;
development of marketing initiatives for 11 online
communities; and creation of on-and-offline marketing
campaigns for the first chemical & odor-free odor product
used in the Pet, Janitorial and Funeral industries. Mr.
Hancock is a writer, model, actor and videographer. He has
appeared in numerous print advertisings, and his television
appearances include: NY Graham Norton, Experience
New York and Criminal Minds. Mr. Hancock was a
contributing writer and managing editor for a book on
matchmaking. In addition to producing and hosting his own
television show Urban Adventures, Mr. Hancock is
currently writing his own book on dating.
Mr. Hancock studied History
and Cinema at Hunter College, New York. In the early days of
the AIDS epidemic, Mr. Hancock was a founding volunteer for
St. Clare's Hospital’s first AIDS ward and was a fundraiser
for their first Christmas program for children with AIDS. Mr.
Hancock has been a regular fundraiser and volunteer for St.
Luke in the Fields, Holy Trinity Church, and St. Clement's
Church. Since 2002, Mr. Hancock has been on the board and
raised thousands of dollars for: Teens Prepared for Life, a
not-for-profit organization whose mission is to counteract
violence directed against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
teens.
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