Call-Back with Geoffrey Short: August 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010

The Avenue Rocks Another Wedding!

The Avenue from Jerry Bruno Productions kept the dance floor full all night long at another great wedding reception! This time the Lisa Grandinetti/Jason Swoger Wedding!

August 28, 2010
Walden Inn - Aurora, Ohio

Geoff Short- Vocals
Tiffany Marchak - Vocals
Leigh Peterson - Vocals
Bob Kessler - Bass
Ray Porello,Jr.- Drums
Joe Blues - Guitar
L.R. Smith- Keyboards
Chris Vollstadt - Sax/EWI
Shawn Delaney - Sound

Sunday, August 22, 2010

THE AVENUE - Grace and Kim Lee Wedding, Severance Hall 8-21-10

The Avenue from Jerry Bruno Productions entertained at the beautifully elegant wedding of Kim and Grace Lee. Great to work with Genevieve Nisly Photography and Amy Hissa with At Last Event Planning!

Geoff Short - Vocals
Leigh Peterson - Vocals
Tiffany Marchak- Vocals
L.R. Smith - Keyboards
Bob Kessler -Bass
Ray Porello, Jr.- Drums
Joe Blues - Guitar
Chris Vollstadt - Sax, EWI
B.J. Bishop - Trombone
Nate Heath - Trumpet
Shawn Delaney - Sound

Friday, August 13, 2010

My new Vid for FPAC's Pride & Prejudice!

Another video preview I produced for the amazing Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory! This time for Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"!

Produced By Geoff Short
http://www.geoffreyshort.com

CORRECTION: The actor credited as Ryan Stafford is actually Amnon Carmi as "George Wickham"

Pride & Prejudice at Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory (FPAC)
August 12-15, 2010
440-782-4087

original adaptation by James Maxwell
revised by Alan Stanford

Novel by Jane Austen

Director - Mitchell B. Fields
Set & Lighting Design -- Ben Needham
Costume Design - Craig Tucker
Sound Design - Carlton Guc
Stage Manager -- Mandalyn Stevens
Assistant Stage Manager - Kayla Spira
Assistant Director - Anthony Ritosa

All productions are performed at Mayfield Village Civic Center,
6622 Wilson Mills Road, Mayfield Village (just off the I-271 / Wilson Mills exit)

ABOUT GEOFF

Geoff produces and hosts the video series "CALL-BACK", focused on local community theatre.

Geoff is also the producer of STAGES: Stories from the BW Music Theatre Program. "STAGES"is a documentary series that follows the stories of the students and teachers of the acclaimed Baldwin-Wallace College Music Theatre Program led by Victoria Bussert. STAGES gives viewers unprecedented access to this exclusive program that draws the very best talent from around the country to this small private college in Berea, Ohio (just southwest of Cleveland). Graduates of this program often go on to careers on Broadway. Learn more about Baldwin-Wallace College at www.bw.edu. See other theater video documentary series from Geoff Short at www.youtube.com/CallBackCleveland.

STAGES: Stories from the BW Music Theater Program

Geoff has spent his career in television, radio, print and online advertising, sales and marketing. He has been responsible for the local advertising, branding and promotions for some of the biggest companies in the country including Wal-Mart, The Cleveland Clinic and McDonald's.

Geoff has also spent a lifetime in the performing arts. He is a singer, actor, director and songwriter who has performed in musical theater, pop groups and other performing groups since he was 10 years old. He has written music for radio and television as well as the stage and his jingles and parodies have been heard frequently on Cleveland airwaves.

In 2013, Geoff Directed Jesus Christ Superstar at Brecksville Theatre on the Square. In 2010 Geoff directed Gypsy at Brecksville Theater on the Square. In the 2009 season Geoff Directed the musical City of Angels at Brecksville Theater on the Square and Oklahoma! at Huntington Playhouse. In 2008 Geoff directed the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical revue Some Enchanted Evening at Huntington Playhouse in Bay Village, Ohio and Assassins with the Berea Grindstone Players at the Cassidy Theatre in Parma Heights, Ohio. Geoff also directed the musicals Violet and Dreamgirls both in 2007 and at the Cassidy Theatre. He has appeared in many area musical theater productions most recently in the musical revue The World Goes Round at Brecksville Theater on the Square. Other productions include Five Guys Named Moe (Big Moe, Beck Center) and Cassidy Theatre productions including Godspell, Carousel (Billy Bigelow), Ain't Misbehavin' ("Ken), Ragtime (Coalhouse Walker, Jr.), Cats (Old Deuteronomy) and as The Voice of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. Geoff also appeared in the 2007 Cleveland Playhouse Club cabaret Motown! and in 2006 developed his own musical cabaret act for Playhouse Square’s Cleveland Cabaret Project.

Geoff is proud to have served for two years as the Board President of Cassidy Theatre, Inc. and also served on the board of the Cooperative Alliance of Medina Entertainment Organizations.

Geoff has been the co-host of the weekly on-air television segment Cheap Date at seen on WKYC TV3’s Good Company program and is also currently one of the lead singers for the band The Avenue.