The Team
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Susan di Rende- executive
director Susan is a an award-winning writer and director with a background in circus, opera and theater. Before coming to Los Angeles, she ran a weekly cabaret in Seattle for three years and started a women’s theatre company. |
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Kaat Cleenewerck - associate director Kaat is an experienced producer originally from Brussels, Belgium, whose work includes projects with TV Brussels before coming to Los Angeles. Most recently she was the events coordinator for the entertainment nonprofit "Australians in Film". |
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Michelle Clay - associate director Michelle is a freelance editor and filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. She has worked in film and television for over a decade and was an award recipient for screenwriting in the inaugural year of Broad Humor. She has helped with the festival ever since. |
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Luci Hamilton - production manager Luci has been a law firm Executive Director and Chief Administrative Officer in California and Rio de Janeiro for over 25 years. She is working on a non-fiction book based on her grandmother's life in Brazil at the turn of the 20th Century. |
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Jenny Hodges - venue manager One of the best stage managers there is, Jenny works where and when she pleases, and, luckily, Broad Humor pleases her. When not managing, she writes, and is currently finishing her book on figure modeling, "Drawing from the Nude." |
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Donna Wheeler - public relations and outreach Donna Wheeler is a globe-trotting, award-winning MFA filmmaker based in Los Angeles who's starting a new film movement. |
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Janice Kennedy - organizational
liaison Janice was a part of the first incarnation of Broad Humor as a theater event of short plays by women. Her play, The Dark, was adapeted into the short film, “Man.Woman.Blackbird.,” which screened at Broad Humor and other festivals around the country. |