Meet the Creative Team
Jefferson Turner (Vocal Director, Vocal Arrangements) has been a professional music director in New Orleans for eleven years. He received the first Big Easy Award for cabaret for his revue of the music of Gershwin, and was recently named one of Gambit Weekly’s “40 Under 40” for his work as a young professional in the arts. Jefferson has been on the faculty of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts since 2003.
Court Watson (Set & Costume Design) New York: Run For Your Wife, Other People’s Money, Lend Me a Tenor, The Foreigner, Dear Edwina. International: Jekyll & Hyde, West Side Story (Magdeburg, Germany), Frau Luna (Salzburg Landestheater), AIDA, Rockville (Amstetten, Austria) Regional: A Christmas Carol, Little Shop of Horrors (Ford’s Theatre), Meet John Doe (Goodspeed) 1940s Radio Hour, Fully Committed (Barksdale Theater). Television: One Life to Live, All My Children. MFA from New York University. Court dedicates his work to his Grandfathers, an Army Corp. Engineer and a Navy Medic in WWII.
Adam H. Greene (Associate Lighting Designer) NYC – ‘Embedded’, ‘Beau Brummel’, ‘Cooking for Kings’, ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’. Los Angeles – ‘Blood!Love!Madness’, ‘Pera Palas’ (Garland Award for Lighting), ‘Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said’, ‘Little’, ‘Funny Business’, ‘Self Defense, or death of some salesmen’, ‘Orlando’. NYC - The Public Theater, Lincoln Center. HERE Arts Center, 59E59,Henry Street Settlement. Los Angeles - The Actors’ Gang, Evidence Room, Boston Court, REDCAT.
Sean Patterson (Writer) is a writer, actor, director, educator, and native New Orleanian. Currently a bookwriter-lyricist in the Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, he has taught acting at Tulane, playwriting at University of New Orleans, and drama/musical theatre at New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. He is a member of Actor’s Equity and the Dramatist’s Guild. He divides his time between New Orleans and Brooklyn.
Brad Robbert (Stage Manager) has worked as a stage and production manager throughout Louisiana, and has been a member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1996. A New Orleans native, Brad has also worked around the world (literally) as a Lighting Designer and Production Manager on the six-star luxury cruise ships of Crystal Cruises. In 2007 he was the premier recipient of the Fred B. Vogel Memorial Scholarship to attend the Commercial Theatre Institute in New York. Brad is a regularly invited speaker at the Texas Educational Theatre Association Conference, and teaches Stage and Production Management courses for Tulane University’s Dept. of Theatre and Dance.
Blake Coheley (Director/Choreographer) started dancing at the age of three and has been in the studio ever since. Blake has had the opportunity to train with great teachers like Jerome Robbins, Gus Giordano and Bella Lewisky. He has toured internationally with Tops in Blue, (the United States Air Force Active Duty Entertainment Showcase), as well as toured nationally with Oliver, West Side Story, Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof, Bye-Bye Birdie and Annie. Blake has taught all over the world and his unique teaching styles, combined with his personality and strong varied techniques, keep him in constant demand on the road. He judges for several major dance organizations/competitions and has had the opportunity to actually train judges at the international level. His students are now in dancing and performing in major theme parks, on Broadway and in professional dance companies. Blake had his own studio in Jackson MS where he started his own children’s dance company (an non-profit dance troupe of 28 dancers) called the Union, and brought dance to hospitals, service industrials and even movie premiers. He is an award winning director/choreographer of musical theatre, industrials, national competition winners and has had the opportunity to inspire many young artists along the way. He has directed and choreographed great shows like Side Show, Working, Floyd Collins, Starmites, Anything Goes, H2$, Godspell, Gypsy, Nunsense, The Fantastiks, South Pacific, Steelpier, Copacabana, Footloose, A Chorus Line, Godspell, Tommy, Singing in the Rain, Jane Eyre, Bat Boy and many others. His passion is dance but his love is animals – (he has six dogs, plus many other animals – exotic birds, cats, an iguana and many more). Blake serves as the President of Dance Teachers United (a southern regional dance teacher organization). He specializes in Tap, Jazz, Modern, Lyrical and Musical Theatre. Blake has a Masters Degree from Buxton University, London, England. His varied and wide background have led him to teach Marching Band at Bay High, Panama City, Florida and also Dance at the Jackson Public School’s Academic and Performing Arts Complex in Jackson, Mississippi. After six years in United States Air Force, several national tours and touring the world teaching and performing he has settled down and is now happy in the Big Easy and enjoys teaching, choreographing and inspiring young artists. Blake is the Chair of the Dance and Musical Theatre Departments at NOCCA/Riverfront and has recently been awarded the International NETWORK of Schools for the Advancement of Arts Education Teacher of the Year for 2007. He is honored to be part of the magic of bringing back the era of the Stage Door Canteens.
