Kyle Bostian

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; ">I like to cook. People seem to like eating the food I make. If you give $250 to this campaign, you can get a taste for yourself.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; "><br></span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; "><span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri; ">I'm also the founder of two independent companies -- NEW stAGE and Pittsburgh PACT -- through which I've produced shows in Wisconsin and Pittsburgh. My most recent project,&nbsp;<i>Casino Liberty</i>, was performed at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in May 2010, supported by grants from The Pittsburgh Foundation and the Sprout Fund, with a budget of over $12,000</span>.</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; ">As for my artistic background, I hold an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Washington and a PhD in Theatre and Dramaturgy from Florida State University.&nbsp;I've worked as a dramaturg at the Asolo Theatre in Sarasota and at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. My experience in new play development includes several projects directed by Daniel Sullivan at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and the world premiere of a work by Neil Simon directed by David Esbjornson at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.&nbsp;I directed a play-in-progress by Arthur Kopit with the playwright in residence at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, and I've continued to work with Kopit in a dramaturgical function as the script has been revised for an intended Broadway production.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; ">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Lastly, I'm no stranger to one-person shows, having performed my own autobiographical piece <i>Sex, Drugs, and Spiritual Enlightenment: Or, How I've Become the Man I Am Today</i>&nbsp;at the Bricolage space in Pittsburgh in 2008. I've also written and directed a solo show about Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><br></span></div></span><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; "><br></div></div></div>

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