Team

Playwright Lance Belville has had more than 100 productions of 50 plays (six off-and off-off-Broadway). His plays have toured to 30 states. In January 2020, his Qaddafi’s Cook was featured in the Latin American Season of Actors Centre in London’s West End.

Lance received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, and a Kudos Award for Best New Play from the Twin Cities Drama Critic Circle. He was the founding playwright of History Theatre and became its artistic director. Holding a degree in Cinema from the University of Southern California, Belville won a Silver Medal Award for a documentary from the New York City International Film Festival.

Director/Actor Lynn Lohr spent 15 years in the professional theater in Minnesota, where with playwright Lance Belville, she founded the History Theatre, dedicated to doing all new work based on social issues, history and folklore.

As an actor, director and producer, she oversaw its growth to its present 597-seat home as an Equity theatre and received awards from the Twin Cities Drama Critics Circle including for Best New Production.

Lynn directed and acted in Qaddafi’s Cook and directed the 2018 Minnesota Fringe hit, Lance’s “family” tale, Atlanta Burning, Sherman’s Shadows, and in California, the Ross Valley Players’ sold-out 2019 success of her husband’s award-winning Scott and Zelda, The Beautiful Fools.

Co-Author Carlos Ambrosi has more than 20 years experience in hospitality. He began his career as a chef and then diplomatic and executive chef moving on to hotel management.

He is a strategic leader for organizing operational and administrative functions. Carlos is also a researcher for shamanism, comparative mythology and Zen Buddhism.

Alvaro Flores is a London based actor/musician and voice over artist of Mexican origin. Mexican/British.

Theatre includes: Falkland Sound (Royal Shakespeare Company), Our Man in Havana (Watermill Theatre), Day of the Living (Royal Shakespeare Company), Wig out (Royal Court Theatre); The Time of Our Lies (Park Theatre); ClubMex (Hope Mill Theatre); Love in the time of Corona (Jermyn Street Theatre), Chess in Concert (Royal Albert Hall), Madagascar Live (International Tour: Mexico, South America, Brasil).

Film Work: Rambo Last Blood, Las Reglas de la Ruina, The Last Bite.

Alvaro trained in London at the Royal Academy of Music and the Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts.

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Understudy for Fredy and Composer Adrian Paredes is a multidisciplinary artist trained under the system of the Royal College of Music in Mexico; researcher and permanent art student, as a self-taught artist.

Music, performing/scenic arts (in the format of ‘happening’): dance, acting, plastic and visual intervention, live coding and synthesis, videomapping and light/sound installations.

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Tom Berger served in the roles of Managing Director, General Manager, Production Manager, Stage Manager, Tour Director, Educational Project Director and Designer for over 60 world premiere productions by 45 playwrights/composers and took 12 of those shows on tour to 25 states for St. Paul’s History Theatre.

Since 2017, he has been a co-producer, production manager and designer for Belville Productions’ Qaddafi’s Cook, Cowboy and Widow, Eric and Friends Sing Songs from Plain Hearts and More and Atlanta Burning, Sherman’s Shadows. He is currently co-producing a world premiere Brazilian-based musical based on the journals and reportage of Lance S. Belville.