Staff
David Coyle, Managing Director
David has spent most of his business career in Information Technology in the San Francisco Bay Area, designing, implementing, managing, and consulting for system development on mainframes and personal computers. Other business areas have included managing social service and health care functions as well as running a retail store. He appeared in a few theatre productions while in college and quite a few more while in the USAF. After his enlistment was up and he returned to IBM, he left theatre for 38 years, only returning to it after he moved to Sarasota to open a store selling therapeutic footwear. Here he has acted, written plays, functioned as stage manger and house manager, and co-founded two theatrical companies, this and Gotta Van Productions, producer of the annual SaraSolo Festival. He has designed the computer, business, and operational processes that have let these organizations thrive.
Alan Brasington, Artistic Director
After college and high school teaching, Alan was awarded scholarships for a 2-1/2 year stint at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in England. He spent a year with APA Repertory at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, appearing in The Misanthrope, Hamlet, and Pantagleize. Other Broadway shows included Jesus Christ Superstar, A Patriot for Me, and Two Shakespearean Actors. Other theatrical adventures included plays at The Guthrie, Missouri Rep, Syracuse University, Penn State, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He was an actor and teacher for 35 years until a sideline business began to demand all his time. He provided 1,200 Chevy trucks for Old Navy Stores and other props for Ralph Lauren-POLO, GAP, JCrew, Tiffany, Banana Republic, etc. He helped outfit over 100 movies, including Dark Shadows, Captain America, both versions of The Great Gatsby, and The Woman in Gold. He was on the New York Arts Council for 3 years and has appeared on television and in films. He writes and records on the internet for Steinbeck Now. He has been in Sarasota since late 2014.