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Artistic Director & Founder
Jeffrey Carpenter
Jeffrey Carpenter founded Bricolage Production Company in 2001. He seeks alternatives to more traditional theater models, resulting in work that explores dynamic and deep modes of connectivity, placing each audience member at the center of the experience from which everything else spins. In this style in 2018, he co-created The Clearing. In 2017, he co-created DODO, set inside and produced in collaboration with the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. In 2014 he received a Visionary Artist award from The Pittsburgh Foundation to create OjO: The Next Generation in Travel, featured in La Jolla Playhouse’s 2015 Without Walls Festival. In 2012, he led the creation of the immersive work STRATA, named Top Production of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and featured on the cover of American Theatre Magazine. He conceived, produced and directed the Bricolage/Pittsburgh Filmmakers multi-media project In Service: Pittsburgh to Iraq, about the lives of local veterans returning from war, nominated for a Mid-Atlantic Emmy.
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Principal Creative & Co-Founder
Tami Dixon
Tami Dixon joined Bricolage Production Company in 2005 and has created dozens of programs, written countless episodes of Midnight Radio, and spearheaded initiatives of inclusion and accessibility like 5th Wall and Between the Lines: Community Conversations around Racism in Pittsburgh. Ms. Dixon is a recipient of the TCG/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Emerging Artist Award from The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation, the Frankel Award from City Theatre Company, and was named Performer of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Most recently, she received the 2016 Tribute to Women Leadership Award for Creative Arts from the YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh. She is a Co-Director and Creative Team member for Bricolage’s groundbreaking immersive works DODO, STRATA, OjO: The Next Generation of Travel and the Immersive Encounters series. She served as writer and director of Welcome to Here, Bricolage’s first immersive experience for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Ms. Dixon’s first play, South Side Stories, received its world premier and subsequent remount at City Theatre Company to critical and box office acclaim. As an actress she’s originated the roles of Miss Julie in the world premiere production of Miss Julie, Clarissa and John at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company and Pace Creagan in Naomi Wallace’s The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival. Ms. Dixon has been seen locally in A Streetcar Named Desire with Barebones Productions, The Clockmaker, Marriage Minuet, The Missionary Position, and The Muckle Man with City Theatre, The Hothouse, Celebration, and Rock n Roll with PICT, The Task and El Paso Blue with Quantum Theatre, The Chicken Snake with The Rep, Metamorphoses with The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and OjO: The Next Generation of Travel, Midnight Radio, STRATA, Dutchman, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, and Key to the Field with Bricolage.
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Production Manager
Michael Young
Michael Young is a Pittsburgh native and holds degrees in theatre and environmental studies from Allegheny College. Michael first came to Bricolage as a production intern in 2014. Since then they have worked with Bricolage as a fellow, production assistant, house manager, performer, and general production MacGyver. Most recently, Michael managed Enter The Imaginarium, an immersive theatre escape room created by Bricolage and ScareHouse. Michael previously worked as a non-profit apprentice in Nicaragua, focusing on arts and entertainment as a way to foster community and education. Michael couldn’t be happier to join the Bricolage family and be a part of such an amazing group of people.
Board Members
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Anthony Mologne
President
Edgewood Resources LLC -
Ann Lapidus
Accessibility Consultant -
Rod Schwartz
Proprietor
All-American Events -
Deryck Tines
Proprietor, Pastor, Musical Director
Deryck Tines Group and Lemington Chorale -
Tami Dixon - EX OFFICIO
Principal Creative and Co-founder
Bricolage Production Company -
Jeffrey Carpenter - EX OFFICIO
Artistic Director and Founder
Bricolage Production Company