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Alan Jordan, Artistic Director, has been a professional actor/director/producer in Canada and the United States for over thirty years. He is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York where he studied with the renowned Sanford Meisner. Mr. Jordan’s many stage credits include starring roles at New York’s Circle Repertory Company, Manhattan Theater Club and Playwrights Horizon as well as Stratford Festival. He toured the United States in national companies of the musicals Applause, and Shenandoah.
Television and film audiences have seen Mr. Jordan, as guest star, in over one hundred productions such as Hill Street Blues, Dallas, Falcon Crest, Knight Rider, Fall Guy, Friday 13th, Echoes in the Darkness, Sorry Wrong Number, Woman on the Run, African Journey, The Young and the Restless, and Santa Barbara.
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In Hollywood, Mr. Jordan was Chairman of the Board at Theatre West; and in San Francisco, he was an advisor to the Young Conservatory at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT).
In Toronto, Mr. Jordan founded The Actors Workshop where he was Artistic Director for fifteen years. Alan Jordan also co-founded Actors Repertory Company, a professional company that that continues to produce in Toronto.
In San Miguel, Alan Jordan has produced and directed several plays, including the one-woman show by Claudia Shear, Blown Sideways Through Life (2005); a collection of first-person voices from 9/11 and the Iraq War, In Their Own Words (2007); and an original play, Sex, Lies and Quilting (2007). Mr. Jordan produced Love Letters (2006-2007), and the Norm Foster play, The Love List (2008), in which he also starred.
The 2009 season had Mr. Jordan directing both Woody Allen’s Central Park West, and co-directing a collection of one-acts and monologues, Mixed Nuts, as part of Iguana Production’s ambitious Iguana Festival 2009. Mr. Jordan produced the Festival, which included: play and poetry readings, a musical event, a one-woman show in Spanish, and a local artisans fair. |
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Kirsten Dehner, Executive Director, was directed by the acclaimed John Houseman in the UCLA Theater Group’s production of Chekhov’s The Seagull. In Los Angeles, as a member of Leonard Nimoy’s theater group, Ms. Dehner played Jocasta in Oedipus by Sophocles; she performed with the Uplifter’s Ranch Theatre in Rustic Canyon; and as a member of Charles Polacheck’s Theater East, she acted in the role of Nora in Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars. She played Nurse in Frederick Durrenmatt’s The Visit at Theater St. Paul, Minnesota.
She starred in the independent film, Amelia’s Afternoon, directed by Ben Jackson who was an early alumni of the Animation Workshop of UCLA, and she appeared in network television series and national commercials.
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Ms. Dehner has also written extensively for multimedia projects like IBM’s Columbus: Encounter, Discovery and Beyond, developed a nationally recognized bilingual consumer health information website named NOAH: New York Online Access to Health (http://www.noah-health.org/), and as a jazz vocalist she performed with such fine L.A. jazz artists as Kent Glenn, Ed Bennett, Gene Stone, Harold Jones, Al Mahafee, and Paul Kreibich.
Ms. Dehner studied acting with the renowned Jeff Corey and appeared in many student film and theater productions at UCLA. Kirsten has also studied acting with Alan Jordan at San Miguel Actors Workshop.
In San Miguel, Ms. Dehner starred in Claudia Shear’s one-woman show, Blown Sideways Through Life (2005); she directed Love Letters (2006-2007); wrote, and co-edited In Their Own Words (2007); and performed in Sex, Lies and Quilting (2007). She also starred in the Norm Foster play, The Love List (2008).
In 2009, as part of the Iguana Festival de Artes ’09 which she helped produce, she starred in Woody Allen’s Central Park West, and co-directed with Alan Jordan and Jim Newell an edited collection of scenes and monologues, Mixed Nuts. |
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Tony Cervantez, Graphic Designer, works out of San Miguel and San Francisco. He has designed original concepts for such companies as Office Depot, The Good Guys (electronic store), Boudin Bakery. Tony was also the associate creative director for clients such as Amazon.com, American Express Rewards, and Mrs. Fields cookies.
Tony has designed the Iguana Production posters since 2006, including last season’s jam-packed Iguana Festival de Artes ‘09.
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Fernando Orozco, Stage Manager, born in San Miguel de Allende, is a graphic designer and graduate from Universidad del Valle de Mexico. He has worked as a technician mixing music, still images and video for several local theatrical and musical productions. Mr. Orozco specializes in image and sound editing to create sound/image events, and enhance web pages. He has served as the Iguana Productions stage manager since 2005. |
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