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Rudy is an out-of-touch theatre director tackling a major regional production of Macbeth, but his avant-garde approach alienates and confuses his key actors. Jonesy, his lead, wrestles with Rudy's note-giving ability - or lack thereof - after Cat and Shana are shut down with unreasonable changes to their performances.

  • Noah Todd
    Director
  • Noah Todd
    Writer
  • Noah Todd
    Producer
  • Eric Michaelian
    Key Cast
    "Rudy"
    Deadly Western, Fatal Justice
  • Howard Hendrix Powell
    Key Cast
    "Jonesy"
    Overdue, Down & Out
  • Jamie Leo
    Key Cast
    "Shana"
    Glass Bottle, The Piano Man
  • Caleigh Lozito
    Key Cast
    "Cat"
    The Binge
  • Nick Kolinsky
    Director of Photography
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Comedy
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 11 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 13, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    21:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Noah Todd

Noah Todd is a Jewish American theatre and film director, a multi-instrumentalist and composer, a writer, and an educator.
He is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and he was previously the Assistant Artistic Director of Flock Theatre and a theatre director and professor at Mitchell College. Noah has performed at the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, and in 2020 he received Emerging Artist recognition from the Connecticut Office of the Arts. He writes folk rock music as Dear Samson, and his humor has been published in McSweeney's.

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Director Statement

Working primarily as a theatre director under his arts production umbrella The Brookside Project, Noah Todd is committed to human-centric creation and uncompromised access to the arts. His work through The Brookside Project celebrates human intelligence, curiosity, and ingenuity, with large language models and any artificial intelligence tools to come in the future never being incorporated into Brookside's writing process, text analysis, or media generation.