Making artful use of what’s at hand, Bricolage uses the distinctive resources of the pittsburgh region to create theatrical events that stimulate a heightened sense of involvement for the audience.
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Artistic Director
Jeffrey Carpenter founded Bricolage in 2001 and is now in his tenth season as Artistic Director. This season for Bricolage he directed Speech & Debate by Stephen Karam. He directs, writes and performs in Bricolage’s second annual Midnight Radio Series running this June through October. Other directing credits with the company include Wild Signs, Biedermann and the Firebugs, Stroke, The Servant’s Lament, Troilus and Cressida, Key to the Field and Peace. Recently he conceived, produced and directed the Bricolage/Pgh. Filmmakers multi-media project: In Service: Pittsburgh to Iraq about the lives of local veterans returning from the war. The full-length documentary was featured in this year’s Three River’s Film Festival and most recently on WQED as part of Filmmaker’s Corner. Jeffrey attended NYU’s Tisch School (Adler) where he received the Award for Outstanding Achievement. His acting credits with Bricolage include two critically acclaimed world premiere productions Wild Signs and Holler both by David Turkel. He has acted in companies in NYC (Westbeth, 45th Street) as well as regionally in Boston (Merrimack Rep), Philadelphia (subcircle), and North Carolina (Archipelago, Carolina Ballet), as well as locally with City Theatre, Quantum, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical, The REP, barebones, Pittsburgh Playwrights, and Unseam’d Shakespeare. NYC directing credits include Athol Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye (Ensemble Studio Theater), and Unbecoming (45th Street Theater). Among his all-time favorite productions was his first as director in Pittsburgh: Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck (timespace). Jeffrey also co-founded the American Shorts Reading Series, now part of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures.
Producing Artistic Director
Tami Dixon is in her fifth season as Bricolage Production Company’s Producing Artistic Director. Most recently at Bricolage she produced and starred in the critically acclaimed production of Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, as well as conceived, wrote, produced and performed in Bricolage’s smash summer series Midnight Radio. Directing credits include the sold-out run of the Pittsburgh premiere of Chicks With Dicks: Bad Girls On Bikes Doing Bad Things, Future 10-Minute Play Festival, SWAN Day Festival and numerous readings for local theatre companies. As an actor Ms. Dixon has appeared on a number of Pittsburgh stages including Metamorphoses with The Pittsburgh Public, the U.S. premiere of The Clockmaker, A Marriage Minuet, the world premiere of The Missionary Position, and The Muckle Man with City Theatre, Rock and Roll with Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, El Paso Blue with Quantum, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and the world premiere of Key to the Field with Bricolage and the world premiere of The Chicken Snake with The Rep. Prior to coming to Pittsburgh Ms. Dixon spent 10 years in New York working with theatres and companies like The Adobe Theatre Company, The Henry Miller Theatre, The Century Center for the Performing Arts, The Lucille Lortel, The Ohio Theatre, hERE Arts Center, LaMama, The Blue Heron, The Chelsea Playhouse, and many others. Awards and honors include 2008 TCG Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, The Thomas Auclair Memorial Scholarship Award, and nomination for a New York Innovative Theatre Award.
General Manager
Corinne Neal is thrilled to join the Bricolage team, having previously worked with the company on Chicks with Dicks and Speech & Debate. She holds a BA in theater from Vassar College and a Master of Arts Management degree from Carnegie Mellon. Her professional experience includes three years spent producing and directing plays in New York City with a variety of Fringe and off-off-Broadway companies, as well as extensive freelance work in technical theater and production. She served as Theater Manager for Ars Nova, a 99-seat theater in Hells Kitchen, and later as Program Director for LightBox Theatre Company in downtown Manhattan. In her spare time she founded a company called The Henge and produced and directed its debut production, The Dead Guy, at the Producers Club Theaters. Upon moving to Pittsburgh in 2008 for graduate school, she joined the staff of Future Tenant, and served as its Co-Director from 2009-2010.
