Award-winning storyteller Slash Coleman brings to life his nationally televised PBS Special with 30 characters who tell an expressive, touching and heart-warming story about best friends, following your heart, and a journey home.
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Becca Bernard
(Director for Television)
Becca Bernard is the director of the television version of The Neon Man and Me. She is also a performer, choreographer, mask designer, educator and writer. Recent theatrical work includes national shows with the Big Apple Circus, the Zany Umbrella Circus and the New York Goofs. Other performances include collaborations with Dog & Pony DC in Washington DC, Henley Street Theatre, KDance and the Richmond Triangle Players in Richmond, VA. Love of physical theater led Becca to intensive studies in Commedia DellArte (comedic 17th century Italian street theater), clown, and mask performance in Italy at the Accademia Dell Arte. She became an apprentice for the international mask performance company Teatro Punto touring in 2008 to the Netherlands and Spain and then to Sweden to work with Master mask-maker Torbjörn Alström. She holds a BFA in theatre performance and an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a contributing writer for the New York Trade magazine ShowBusiness.
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Shanea N. Taylor
(Director)
Shanea N. Taylor is the director of the stage version of The Neon Man and
Me. She received her MFA in Theatre Pedagogy with a concentration in directing from
Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently the Director of Education for
Sycamore Rouge theatre in Petersburg, Va. and teaches theatre at Meadowbrook
High School. As a freelance director, actor, and educator her credits include: Rebekah L. Smith’s That Color Blind Kind of Love as part of the Kennedy Center’s from Page to Stage project and the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC, Artisia Green’s The
Straight and Narrow of Beauty vs. the Gap Tooth as part of the DC Black Theatre
Festival, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Steel Magnolias, Jar the Floor with Sycamore
Rouge, Birth by Karen Brody with The Firehouse Theatre Project and Will Power to
Youth Richmond presents: Romeo and Juliet in collaboration with LA Shakespeare and the Richmond Gang Reduction and Intervention project.
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Slash Coleman
(Playwright-Performer)
Slash Coleman is the author of "The Bohemian Love Diaries." The hard back will be released by Lyons Press next June. It's a memoir about all his failed love relationships. He reluctantly blogs about the same topic for Psychology Today under the title "The Bohemian Love Diaries." As a storyteller he's best known for his award-winning PBS special, "The Neon Man and Me" and is currently at work on his 2nd PBS special about the re-birth of storytelling in America. As a storyteller, he’s been featured at: TEDx, The International Storytelling Center, The National Storytelling Festival, and Pete Seeger’s Clearwater Festival. Descended from a grandfather who was a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, a grandmother who was a painter, and a father who is a prolific sculptor, Slash draws much of his material from being raised by an offbeat, creative family. He is currently on a quest to find the perfect French fry.
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