Creative Team
Ross Hewitt
Ross is an associate member of the American Dramatists Guild and a former member of the Village Playwrights, a group that gives LGBTQ playwrights a voice. His one-act plays produced by the Village Playwrights include Quicksand, Mother Knows Best, The Middle, Crossover and Witches Brew. His full-length play, When October Goes, was produced by the Ujima Theatre Company in Buffalo, NY. When October Goes received an ArtVoice Artie Award nomination for Best New Play. His one-act play Booties was a part of the 13th Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City. His jukebox musical, Rainbows and Ribbons, premiered at Don’t Tell Mama in New York City in 2017. His full-length family drama Echoes in the Garden was produced by the American Bard Theater Company Off-Off Broadway in 2021, of which he is a founding member and with whom he has appeared on stage in many past productions. Kris The Cat marks Ross’s first foray into screenwriting and film producing.
Amiee Todoroff
Aimee Todoroff is a freelance director, producer and arts advocate working in New York City. She has been a part of two Obie Awardwinning projects, performing in Peculiar Works Project’s Off Stage-the East Village Fragments and directing Green for the Metropolitan Playhouse’s 2010-2011 Season. She has also directed at Primary Stages, The Living Theatre, HERE Arts Center, The Westside Theater and at various site-specific locations around New York City. She has directed the premieres of works by Cusi Cram, Daisy Foote, and frequent collaborator Chris Harcum, including We Haven’t Told Anyone About This, Rabbit Island, and American Gun Show, a 5-star reviewed show in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As Artistic Director of the independent theatre company Elephant Run District, Aimee conceived and developed the popular Brecht in the Park Series, bringing free, outdoor performances of Brecht’s lesser known plays to an underserved community. She also created ERD’s Stampede Labs, a curated evening of independent work that mixes the heritage of off-off broadway with the artists making today’s most exciting work. Aimee received her MFA in Directing from Stony Brook Southampton Arts, studying with Marsha Norman, Nick Mangano and Rinde Eckert, and has taken master classes with Karen Kohlhaas, Joanna Merlin, and the SITI Company. Aimee was the Assistant Director under the director John Rando and the playwright David Ives for Classic Stage Company’s production of The Heir Apparent. Recently, Aimee directed a touring production of Deborah Karpel’s The Midwood Miracle, the American Bard Theater production of Ross Hewitt’s Echoes in the Garden, and Joanna Parson's Three Chords of the Apocalypse - a Transcriber's Tale. Aimee has produced the award winning comedy short The Big Pivot by Chris Harcum. Kris The Cat marks Aimee's first foray into the world of animated shorts. Currently, Aimee is the Managing Director of the arts advocacy organization The League of Independent Theater. For more info, please visit aimeetodoroff.org or elephantrundistrict.org.
SCEEENWRITER/PRODUCER
DIRECTOR
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Arnel T. Dime Jr.
PRODUCTION DESIGNER - ANIMATION
Arnel is a professional artist based in the Philippines. He has a wide variety of creative specializations, from simple illustration to complex animation and mostly everything in between.
He worked with numerous clients around the globe and always envisioned providing cutting edge yet affordable world class creative outputs for clients worldwide. Treat every project opportunity as his own. Thus, being part of Kris The Cat is one of the best projects that he handled that exposed him more into digital animation. You can check his past works at Portfolio and contact him at Facebook and Linkedin.
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Michael Harren
ORIGINAL SCORE
Brooklyn-based composer and performer Michael Harren combines elements of classical composition with experimental electronics and storytelling to create hypnotic and boldly intimate work. As artist-in-residence at Tamerlaine Farm Animal Sanctuary he created the solo multi-media theater piece The Animal Show, which premiered in New York City in 2016. In his first solo show, Tentative Armor, he combined piano, synthesizers, various electronics, and live musicians with his unique storytelling, resulting in a deeply moving, highly entertaining performance about intimacy, grief, and rebirth. Michael hosts and produces the long running podcast, MikeyPod, where he has conversations with activist artists who use their creativity to change the world.
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Jeanne Travis
SOUND EDITOR
Jeanne Travis (Sound Designer) Based in New York City, fourteen years experience as a sound editor, designer and mixer for film, theater and indie narrative features and podcasts. Jeanne is a New York Innovative Theater Award Winner. A native Texan, Jeanne studied flute and music at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Jeanne discovered the world of sound design when, as a kid, she watched a special behind the scenes feature on the sound design of the motion picture "Jurassic Park" and became completely obsessed.