Russell McGee
Artistic Director
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Russell grew up in Spencer, Indiana. In 2001, he received his Bachelors in Theatre with a creative writing minor from Indiana State University. He is a Meisner trained actor and he has been directing for seventeen years. In 2002, his full-length play, Ankhenaten & Nefertiti, earned him a scholarship to attend the W. B. Yeats International Summer School. In 2005, he founded Monroe County Civic Theater’s Dinner Theater Series. In 2007, he was awarded the Basile Playwriting Fellowship through the Indiana Theatre Association for his ten minute play The Clockwork Man. His play Silent Cinema won the Artsweek Playwriting Competition. Also in 2007, he co-found the Laura Shiner Studio Series playwriting workshop and annual BloomingPlays Festival at the Bloomington Playwrights Project. In 2008, he founded Starrynight Productions and was the Literary Manager of the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Russell is currently in post-production for his feature length film The Babbling Banshee. He is a member-at-large on the board of the Monroe County Civic Theater and the Artistic Director of Starrynight Productions.
Chris Eller
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Education Director
Chris joined Starrynight Productions early in the creative process as a photographer creating promotional materials and capturing production stills for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Rocky Horror Show. He has spent several years providing photography services, through Chris Eller Photography, LLC, to a variety of local performing arts organizations including: Bloomington Playwrights Project, Monroe County Civic Theater, Windfall Dancers and Theatre South at Bloomington High School South. He later decided to put his theater education degree from Indiana University in 1999 to use as gaffer, electrician, and rigger on Starrynight’s feature film, The Babbling Banshee. Chris has recently expanded into writing screenplays for Starrynight’s Script Development Series. He is keeping busy working toward a masters degree at Indiana University developing skills and techniques in 3D cinematography while holding a full time job at the IU Advanced Visualization Lab.
April Smallwood
Literary Manager
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Bio coming soon!
Jennifer McGee
Box Office Manager, Webmaster
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Jennifer earned a Bachelors in English from Rutgers University in 2003. While at Rutgers, she worked as an editorial intern for the Painted Bride Quarterly and earned the Ralph Bergen Allen Prize in English Composition (2000) as well as the John C. Wentz Prize in Advanced Composition (2004). In 2006, Jennifer completed her Masters in Library Science with a concentration in Rare Books and Manuscripts at Indiana University. Jennifer wrote and managed a fully-funded grant project for Monroe County Civic Theatre (Indiana Arts Council Regional Arts Partners project grant FY2007/2008). She produced a number of shows for Monroe County Civic Theatre before co-founding Starrynight Productions in 2008. Most recently, Jennifer served as producer for Selections from the Spoon River Anthology. In addition to box office and webmaster duties, Jennifer acts as an editor for all press releases and textual material.
Meagan Eller
Meagan received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science degree from Tri-State University, where she attended on a partial scholarship and was honored with the Outstanding Science Student award. She has a knack for data after 4 years of processing electronic payments for Oak Trust Credit Union and 3 years maintaining transcripts in the Registrar’s Office at Indiana University. She works behind the scenes at Starrynight Productions as a researcher as well as catering staff meetings. Meagan has also been a creative consultant on several projects, including The Babbling Banshee, An Ancient Pond and Project Z-6463, and is co-writing a script for a project currently in pre-production. She has published one poem, “Dementia and Chaos”.
