Joe McClean (Associate Artistic Director and Dramaturg)

Joe McClean studied at Southern Utah University (home of the Utah Shakespearean Festival). He was on a Shakespeare performance scholarship that lasted a year, and when the money dried up Joe moved to NYC where he worked as a carpenter for 5 years while working his way into the NYC theater scene. During this time he was chosen to study acting at the Royal National Theater studio program in London England where he got to study with some of the great names in English theater. His time in NYC culminated with 2 years of acting and crewing 4 nationally touring productions. He was a road manager and actor for The National Theater of the Performing Arts, and an assistant stage manager/ actor for Theatreworks USA. His love for movies brought him to LA in 2005 where he started Red and Tan Productions, an independent film production company and premiered his first feature film THAT FALL (Written, produced, and staring McClean) in 06 at Culver Studios and the Fairfax Regency in Beverly Hills. Red and Tan's most recent project is a short film called Travesty (written and produced by McClean) which garnered nominations for Best Dramatic Short Film and Best Actor in a Short Film. On the side McClean supplements his income with write-for-hire screenplays, has written 5 of his own, and his first novel S-Factor (Based on his screenplay by the same name) is currently being edited for future publication.