| The Founders |
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| Written by Jinn S. Kim | |
| Thursday, 19 August 2004 | |
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Jinn S. Kim Graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Business Administration in 1990. Upon completion, he drove across the country to study Acting and Theater in New York. In 1995, he auditioned and was accepted into LAByrinth Theater Company. In the subsequent years, he was elected as the first official President of the company, where he helped lay the foundation for its current growth and success. He also became involved with Developing Artists, a theater school and company for young adults and The Lobby, a community of poets, musicians and artist that perform and inspire each other in a BI-weekly event. In addition, during the last 3 years, he produced 3 LAByrinth productions: WHERE'S MY MONEY? by John Patrick Shanley, CULTURE BANDIT & DARWAZA by Vanessa Hidary & Ajay Naidu and OUR LADY OF 121ST STREET by Stephen Adly Guirgis. WHERE'S MY MONEY? and OUR LADY continued its run Off-Broadway and CULTURE BANDIT & DARWAZA can be seen playing at various venues across the country. As an actor for LAByrinth, he appeared in QUEEN LATINA & THE POWER POSSE VS THE EVILS OF SOCIETY by David Anzuelo, RACE, RELIGION & POLITICS by Stephen Adly Guirgis (co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman), DREAMING IN TONGUES written by the cast, A WINTER PARTY by John Patrick Shanley and will be one of the cast members of a new play by Webb Wilcoxen to open Feb. 3rd of 2003. At the close of 2002, he left his position at LAByrinth to start A Bow & 3 Arrows with co-founders Ernesto Solo and Maurice Wingfield. Jinn S. Kim remains a member of LAByrinth Theater Company, continues to consult Developing Artists and is actively involved with The Lobby. Film and TV credits include:GRAVESEND HURRICANE STREET, OZ and LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT. Ernesto Gonzalez Ernesto Solo was born in Venezuela on December 2 1969: Under the mangos tress, where his toes were washed by the Caribbean sea, his time spent reading Sartre with his father, watching Buñel's films on his own, and painting next to his mother. His love for film, theater and other medias was a process of survival and understanding people. At the aged of 17, Ernesto entered college, where he studied 4 years of Communication. While in college, he started to get involved in theater and film: Theater with the national company and film with the most important directors and producers in Venezuela, where he also had the opportunity to work in TV. After 7 years of work with the national independent filmmakers - learning the process of workshops, editing, lighting, writing - he decided to complete his own first film titled PILLOS. The film won a public selection in Venezuela for: Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. His film was invited to be screened in Brazil at the annual festival of Short Films and was also shown in Overhausen, Germany and Huelva, Spain. In 1997, after a big economical depression and an invitation to join the school of film in France Le Femis for four month, Ernesto decided to stop in New York for vacation. After the first week, he loved the city so much that he decided to stay. He finished his college education in one of the many CUNY institution - graduating Sumac Lauded. He was also asked to join LAByrinth Theater Company, where he began to collaborate in mainstage productions to bring multi-media elements to the stage as well as to write. In the meantime, he was begining to work more in films in the states - primarily in production design (Commercials: Advil, Sears, Coca-Cola, and others; Short Films: The Fish, Vista a la Otra Orilla, others and Features films: Brother to Brother,When Will I Be Loved by James Toback, Jailbait by Brett Leonard and The Motel by Mike Kang) while continuing to write plays and screenplays, which he ultimately plans to shoot. Maurice spent hundreds of hours in the pottery studio his mother built in their home. Studying the principals of draftsmanship and life drawing under his father, he was introduced to the tools needed to give form to idea. The addition of an IBM PC clone to the Wingfield family studio redefined what an art education was to entail. Living and working in New York since October 2001 has provided an education to compliment the art training he recieved from his parents. Storyboarding and drawing comics gives him the oppertunity to tell stories with the pictures in his head. Maurice is working on several projects coming to a head in 2004. Tru Warriors has existed since 1996. Its grown into a comic book seriese, a video game, and a habited world of fiction. Maurice is looking foreward to telling these stories with the collective talents of A Bow & 3 Arrows. |
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