Administration

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Kim Slade has worked as an arts educator for 25 years. She has also worked as a producer, director, and actress. Kim has produced and cast live Industrial shows for a huge range of national clients including companies such as Land Rover, Nortel, CNA, and MacGregor Golf. As a member of Actor’s Equity, Kim’s performance credits include featured roles in Alice in Wonderland, Chicago, The Heidi Chronicles, Lies and Legends, The Music of Harry Chapin, An Enemy of the People, Christmas in New York, The Dining Room, The Fantasticks, Going to See the Elephant, Portrait of a Madonna, An Actor’s Nightmare and An Evening with Tennessee Williams. Kim has also produced and/or performed in numerous film, TV and commercial projects, including the children’s television program Big Fun, Little Playhouse and the feature film Curdled starring William Baldwin. Prior to co-founding The Performing Arts Project, Kim served as Program Director of Broadway Theatre Project, where she worked in various capacities, including as a faculty member for 20 years. She is a graduate of the University of Tampa and studied theater at the University of Florida and the Burt Reynolds Institute and Theatre in Jupiter, FL, where she also performed as a Resident Company Member.

CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER/ FACULTY MEMBER

In addition to co-founding The Performing Arts Project, Juliet also co-founded the Key West Theater and is currently a theatrical producer, director, performer, and author. Her recent producing highlights include: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, directed and choreographed by Broadway choreographer Andrew Palermo, the new plays Locura (staged most recently at Guild Hall in East Hampton), and Eclipse, as part of the first theatrical exchange between the U.S. and Cuba in more than 50 years; the world premiere of the original musical Oklahoma Smith and the Pantheon of Annihilation; the East Coast premiere of Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up by Oscar-nominee Lucy Alibar; the short film Frances Eaton: the Untold Story of a World Champion, which she also wrote, directed, and starred in, as well as numerous shows and fundraisers including the annual island-wide Tropic Cinema 72-Hour Film Challenge in Key West and Let Me Try That Again at 54 Below in NYC. Juliet was also an associate producer with Back House Productions in NYC, which helped push more than 40 projects from page to stage. In addition to her producing career, Juliet helped create the Drama Club at Key West High School, where she still coaches the students. Juliet was also the Artistic Director of the Key West Theater from 2014-2018, has written more than 1,000 articles for Delta Sky, Glamour, NBC, and Time Out Magazine among others, and is the author of the book The Insiders’ Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West published by Rowman & Littlefield’s Globe Pequot Press.

MUSIC SUPERVISOR/FACULTY MEMBER

Dave began his career as a performer on Broadway with roles in Les Misérables, The Civil War (original company), The Scarlet Pimpernel (original company and Chaeuvelin on original concept recording). He was seen as Jean Valjean in the National tour of Les Misérables (2 years) and the National tours of Jekyll and Hyde as well as the pre-Broadway productions of Whistle Down the Wind (by Andrew Lloyd Weber, directed by Hal Prince at The National Theatre in DC) and Jekyll and Hyde (The Alley Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Seattle’s 5th Ave. Theatre). He was also featured as Corin/Amiens/Hymen in As You Like It at the Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. Other roles have included Che in Evita, Freddie in Chess, The Teen Angel in Grease, Dinadan in Camelot (starring and directed by Terrence Mann) and Richard in The Lion in Winter.

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