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biographies
Executive Staff
 Kathleen
Anderson Culebro (Artistic Director)
Born and raised in Mexico City, Kathleen is a founding member of Amphibian Stage Productions. She is the author of Just Because You're Paranoid (Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get You), Vincent and The Crying Woman/La Llorona, which premiered off-Broadway at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row in February of 2007. Her play A Leopard Complains of Its Spots played off-off-Broadway in New York City in the summer of 2001. Design credits include: (scenic design) Miss Witherspoon, Below the Belt, 4 Edges, Leonce & Lena, Three Days of Rain, and Burn This; (costume design) Three Days of Rain, Macbeth, The Lost Moment; (makeup) Icarus, Fuddy Meers, Look Back in Anger, Communicating Doors. |
 Melissa M. Mitchell (Managing Director)
Melissa M. Mitchell comes to Amphibian after 30 years as a Family Counselor and 20 years in development, raising money for children's organizations throughout Europe. During her tenure with the Spleegenbarf Fund in Munich, she raised the endowment by one million dollars. Shortly thereafter, she was hired by the Institut Nationalenstadt der Kinder Guber as a consultant for the Departmentishtingen der Developmentegraftensteinstucke, which won her numerous awards. Due to a strong hankering for chicken-fried steak, she moved back to Fort Worth in 2004 with her husband and three children. |
 Carman
Lacivita (Artistic Associate/Fight Choreographer/Actor)
Amphibian credits include Icarus, Fully Committed, Leonce & Lena, Three Days of Rain, and Burn This. Broadway: Vicomte de Valvert in Cyrano de Bergerac, opposite Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner directed by David Leveaux. Off-Broadway Credits: One for the Road, Henry the 6th in Rose Rage; Henry the 6th Pts. 1, 2, 3 (Bayfield Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Shakespeare in NYC, Jeff Award, Drama League Nomination), directed by Edward Hall. Also works with The Public Theater, Theater for a New Audience, Primary Stages, The Mint, and The Drama League. Regional Credits; Chicago Shakespeare, Long Wharf, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Crossroads, Stage West, Ft. Worth, Dallas, and Kentucky Shakespeare Festivals. Carman’s performance of Romeo at Chicago Shakespeare directed by Mark Lamos was featured in the Sourcebook Shakespeare’s book on Romeo and Juliet, alongside Ralph Fiennes and Judi Dench. He also work-shopped On the Way, by Oscar Nominated writer Elaine May starring Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda and Debra Monk. Carman holds a BFA from TCU and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he trained with William Esper and Deborah Hedwall.
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 Chad
R. Jung (Artistic Associate/Resident Lighting
Designer)
Chad R. Jung has designed more than 100 productions for theatre, opera, and dance. Off-Broadway: Leonce & Lena; NY Credits: Julia Pastrana at Greenwich St. Theater, A Leopard Complains of Its Spots at Pantheon Theater; International: The Bear at the Festival of Russian Drama in Togliatti , Russia . Chad has worked with many companies including: Ballet Austin, Bruce Wood, Caroline Calouche, Casa Mañana, Dallas Opera, FW Symphony Orchestra, Opera Pacific, Metropolitan Classical Ballet, and UNT Opera. In addition to being the Resident Lighting Designer for Kids Who Care and Amphibian Stage Productions, Chad R. Jung is the Lighting Director for Fort Worth Opera. www.chadrjungdesign.com Resume |
 Jonathan
Fielding (Artistic Associate/Actor)
Jonathan is grateful to have performed in and produced several works with Amphibian Stage Productions including Below the Belt (Fort Worth Weekly Critics Pick, Best Ensemble), Leonce and Lena, 4 Edges, and The True History of Julia Pastrana… Broadway: Pygmalion (Roundabout Theatre Company with Claire Danes and Jefferson Mays). New York: Kicker (Triptych Theatre), The True History of Julia Pastrana… (Amphibian), Leonce and Lena (Amphibian). Other Texas: Lincolnesque (Circle Theater) Romeo and Juliet (KWC). New Jersey: The Proposal, Metonymy (Mile Square Theater), Candida (Holmdel Theater). California: 1905 (The Misa Table) Florida: The Drawer Boy (American Stage). Maine: Rough Crossing, A Christmas Carol (The Public Theatre). TV: Guiding Light. Jonathan was a voice artist for the audio portion of the dialect text book Classically Speaking by Patricia Fletcher. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts and is a proud member of AEA and AFTRA.
www.fieldingonline.com
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Board of Directors
Gregory Ibañez, chair
David Fielding, secretary
Kay Bolz
Jeff Davis
Leslie Dell
Peter Kowalski,MD
Timothy McClendon
Ann L. Rhodes
Whitney Smith
John E. Williams
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