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To promote & showcase -
through live performance - Louisiana's most precious natural resources; its talented Performing Artist, its art and culture and its colorful history.
The Company Perry Martin - Producing Artistic
Director Perry Martin is the President of Evangeline Entertainment, a company that offers developmental
& consulting services for the theatre, concert, television, film, talent & facility management industries. He is the
Producing Artistic Director for the Halifax Theatre Co. & the Bayou Playhouse. National television appearances include;
CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, ABC Nightly News & CNN. Mr. Martin was awarded a National Telly Award for Advertising
and continues to participate as an annual judge for the Daytime Emmy Awards. New York theatrical credits include: The Kingfish,
A Different Woman & Mirrors Of Chartres Street. He was the developmental consultant for the National tour of Smoke
& Mirrors, starring Anthony Herrera of As The World Turns. Mr. Martin has directed & produced over 80 theatrical productions
including the world premieres of Earl Long in Purgatory, Miz Caraway & the Kingfish, Spiritual Gifts, Tant Que Durera
La Terre, Confederacy of Dunces and 5 newly discovered Tennessee Williams plays. His award winning regional premieres include;
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Walk in the Woods, Filumena, Okra, All My Sons, The Great Big Doorstep, Tiger Tail, I Can’t
Imagine Tomorrow, Burn This & The Playboy of the Western World. He is currently writing his first novel, A Blur in the
Eye of the Storm, a tragic-comic account of his 10 day adventure which started with his 2005 Off Broadway world premiere of
A Different Woman and continued back to Louisiana and being stranded in the French Quarter during the devastating landfall
and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Perry Martin is visually impaired, thus the novel’s title. Karissa Kary - Producing Managing Director Karissa Kary is the
Producing Managing Director for Halifax Theatre Company. Ms. Kary has been the production manager of numerous staged productions
including five previously unpublished one-acts by Tennessee Williams. An avid writer, Karissa’s fiction and non-fiction
work have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Over the past five years she has worked as the associate director
for the celebrated Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and as an organizer with Saints and Sinners Literary Festival,
both of which take place in the French Quarter every spring. An arts enthusiast and advocate Karissa is a management consultant
with Greenlight Operations (www.greenlightoperations.com) where she works with several non-profit and arts groups to promote
greater education and social awareness through the arts. She has organized literary scavenger hunts in the New Orleans French
Quarter, bluegrass festivals in the Missouri Ozarks, appeared in film and stage productions in China, London, and Argentina,
and annually attempts to unite all winged, magical, and mythical creatures as they march in the New Orleans Mardi Gras Krewe
du Faye Fairy Parade. David Guidry - Technical Director David Guidry is the Technical Director for the Bayou Playhouse. Guidry has designed
lights for numerous productions across Louisiana and traveled as technical director with New Orleans’ Southern Rep.
theatre to Budapest, Hungary. Guidry has acquired the sound and lighting equipment from the True Brew Playhouse and 100 of
the original theatre seats from the Saenger Theater, which he generously provided for use to the Bayou Playhouse. Both
New Orleans venues remain closed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005. Cindy Griffin - House Manager Jenni Bedell - Box Office Manager
Evangeline Entertainment and Greenlight Operations present: HALIFAX Theatre Company on the Bayou Playhouse A message from Perry Martin, Producing
Artistic Director, HALIFAX Theatre Company. As a director, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to
travel across this great country telling stories about our proud Cajun heritage. Whether on the East coast or the West coast,
however, my journeys have always led me home to the Gulf Coast. It is my belief that South Louisiana is ready to support a
Southern-based professional theater that focuses primarily on tales about Louisiana told by Louisianans, and I am excited
for the chance to share this new venture with you. We took a hard hit in 2005 and even now, many parts of our great
state are still in recovery from the devastation caused by Katrina and Rita. Now more than ever we as a people, as a community,
and as a culture need to remember who we are, where we came from and what wonderful history we’ve yet to make. For my
part, I aim simply to share these stories with others through the performing arts. Join us at the Bayou Playhouse on our mission
to promote and showcase Louisiana's most precious natural resources; its amazing people, its beautiful art, history, colorful
heritage, and its culture. On behalf of the Producing Managing Director Karissa Kary, Technical Director David Guidry
and myself, The HALIFAX Theatre Company invites you to come out and join us as we celebrate Cajun culture past, present and
future. "Come pass a good time" and support the Bayou Playhouse through ticket purchases, season subscriptions,
corporate sponsorship or any other form of support your pocketbook and busy schedule will allow.
I encourage you to take a few moments and visit us at www.bayouplayhouse.com to find out how you can join in and help.
For those who aren't Cajun, I highly recommend that you don't miss this party! I'll see you "down on the bayou."
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