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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Brent Wellington Barker III |
Brent has been producing, directing, and performing theatre all over Manhattan since relocating there in 2008. Brent has spent the past year apprenticing under theatre legend Judith Malina (founder and director of The Living Theatre). Taking up residence in a loft above the tech room, he has acted as Associate Manager of the space, working with visiting companies and making sure that all aspects of in-house productions run smoothly. Brent has also taken on important roles designing and acting in the companies last two critically acclaimed off-broadway productions – Red Noir and Korach. His prior acting credits include: Pippin; Pippin, PVT. Wars; Silvio, Godspell; Herb, Arsenic and Old Lace; Mortimer, Grease; Kenickie, H2$; Bud Frump, Cabaret; Cliff and dozens more. Brent has also tried his hand at directing and was honored to have his 2008 production of James McLure’s The Day They Shot John Lennon featured at the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival. KCACTF has also nominated him for multiple awards in the acting and sound design categories. Perhaps his favorite role to date is ‘Alfred’ from Josiah Houston’s play Cracked (Upon a Time) - Piece Theatre Company’s first production. Brent relies heavily on the brilliance and generosity of his amazing family and friends. | |
Josiah Houston |
A critically acclaimed performance poet in his youth (as seen on CBS 60 Minutes), Josiah Houston has been walking the tightrope between audience and expression his entire life. Upon completing his Honors degree in Theatre, and writing an award winning thesis exploring the dramatic canon of Jean Genet and “the Plague of Consciousness”, Houston packed his twenty year old life into a bright blue backpack and began traveling the world. In the four years that followed, he lived as both a vagabond and volunteer, visiting over twenty countries (including the vastness of his own), and finding homes in Austin Texas, South Africa and the Samoan Islands. As a volunteer, his work consisted primarily of running educational programs in English, Drama, Speech, and Poetry for both elementary and high school students among other community projects; while his artistic output included three full albums of original music, countless poems, and numerous plays of varying size, style, and substance. Knowing at his core that he is a theatre maker, Josiah Houston returned to the United States in order to rejoin trusted collaborators in the creation of PIECE Theater Company in New York City. He is currently the PIECE Theatre’s Resident Playwright. | |
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Anthony has been been acting for as long as he can remember! (people closest to him tell him he’s been at it longer than that) A social chameleon, he finds himself dissatisfied with the growing social divide occurring in this world and has begun to try and make a difference in the only way he knows how... Theatre. Most of his training being on the performance side of things you could consider him an “actor’s director” having just completed his first off Broadway production as a director and receiving a national award for outstanding direction, Anthony is ready to change the world... One piece at a time. |
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