Sweet Corn Productions is devoted to highly entertaining
presentations that affirm self-esteem and social equality.
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Demian’s Directing Résumé
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Demian
206-935-1206
demian@buddybuddy.com
Sweet Corn Productions
Seattle, WA
My involvement in the performing arts spans from the 60s to the present.
I use video, film, theater, and radio to entertain and educate. Because of my emphasis on social responsibility, I consider myself to be a cultural worker.
My doctoral thesis was based on leading 130 theater workshops, as well as touring a workshop-developed play on sexism.
Besides directing and producing my own original scripts, I have also directed showcases for other writers, as well as children’s summer camp shows such as “Oliver” and “South Pacific.”
I founded Sweet Corn Productions in 1971 to produce dramas, satires, musicals, marionette opera for children, concerts, and productions on liberation issues.
I’ve produced numerous shorts, experimental and animated films. Currently, I use high-definition 16:9 format digital cameras, and a crane and a 3-axis gimbal for stabilization.
Besides directing and writing, I’m also skilled as an actor, photographer, script doctor, movie maker and editor, and rabbit wrangler (as easy as wrangling cats).
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Directing
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Movies -
Producer, Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
“Conducting Flowers” - 10 min. (view video here)
Transforming a backyard weed wasteland into a haven for butterflies, birds and bugs.
And conducting the flowers. (2021)
“Volta: Highlights from the Cirque du Soleil Dress Rehearsal” - 13 min. (view video here)
Performances tender and dynamic.
“Why I Created ‘Swamp Emperor’ ” - 4:45 min. (view video here)
A political, comic, graphic novel about a monster named Trump.
“Laura Stone - T’ai Chi Ch’uan” - 6:30 min. (view video here)
Demonstrating the meditation/martial art at Lincoln Park.
“Radiation Diaries” (links to videos here)
Documentary. “Smart” Meters & other EMF health issues Video series.
Araya’s Place” (view video here)
Documentary. Araya Pudpard’s Seattle, Thai restaurant, vegan since 1991.
She also demonstrated two recipes.
“Director’s Commentary”
The director speaks, and won’t shut up.
“Two by Demian” DVD
View excerpt here on YouTube
“The Fight Before Christmas”
A musical about a male couple saved by angels
Steve Bryant, music direction
Scott Henderson, music; Debbie Greig, lyrics
Excerpt: “Demian’s Film & Video Projects” DVD
“The Right to Marry”(view excerpt here)
Civil rights documentary. DVD.
“Gertie Takes a Trip to the Moon and a Man Recycles”
Animation.
“Demian’s Film & Video Projects” DVD
“Rainbow Flags” (view video here)
Documentary 2009
“Gay Pride Day” - Seattle 2010 (view video here)
Documentary
“Gay Pride Parade - Seattle 2016” (view video here)
Documentary
Extensive use of 3-axis gimbal for fluid, floating shots
“Leggo”
Animated flight of fancy.
“Demian’s Film & Video Projects” DVD
“Fog” (formerly titled “Didi”)
A somber, obscured view of a relationship
“Demian’s Film & Video Projects” DVD
“T’ai Chi Chuan” (see excerpt here)
Master T.T. Liang demonstration and interview.
“Two by Demian” DVD
“Project W.E.E.”
Documentary on an ecology field study with
5th grader kids, Massachusetts.
“Timeless Wisdom: Being the Knowing” (see excerpt here)
Dharma teachings with Ven. Thubten Chodron and Ven. Ajahn Amaro.
“Timeless Wisdom: Bringing Compassion to Living and Dying”
Discussion with Ven. Thubten Chodron and
Lee Paton, hospice counselor
“Lectures on Buddhist Meditation and Philosophy”
Four discussions with Ven. Thubten Chodron
Promotions -
Videographer, Editor
Jilly Eddy - Lipsologist
Bill Robinson and Beverly Schuster - Mimes
Linda Severt - Juggletunes
Corporate Clients -
Writer, Videographer, Editor
AmKor Pharma - VNR on phase 1 trials
Group Health - Lecture documentation
PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology and Health)
In-house greetings to new employees
Publicis Dialogue - Client pitches
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Theater -
Director, Producer
Orphée (Jean Cocteau) (see video here)
view Demian’s photos and narrative of this production
UBU (Alfred Jarry)
First U.S. puppet production; toured Massachusetts
Scaredy-Kate and the Monsters - or -
How to Pay the Rent (Demian) (see excerpt here)
Marionette opera set to Haydn’s music
Played at the Bumbershoot Festival in 1982
The Voice of an Angel:
A Castrato Remembers (Demian)
Music of Glück, Haydn, Mozart
Voted “Best of the Week” at the
1986 New City Theater Director’s Festival
Ondine! - Theda! (Yarók aka John Green)
Our Old Gang Grows Up (Demian)
Commissioned by the Gay Theater Festival, 1985
Assorted Shelters — or — Do You Have Nightmares
When You Sleep on Your Back? (Demian edit)
Developed through workshop improvisations
Inseparable Pieces: A Sequence of Power Plays (Demian edit)
Developed through workshop improvisations
Directed Children in numerous summer camp variety shows, as well as standards such as Oliver (Lionel Bart) and South Pacific (Rogers and Hammerstein).
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Radio -
Director, Producer for
plays aired on WFCR, WMUA, WYEP, WBUR, WCAS, KPFA and KPFK:
Wedding on the Eiffel Tower (Jean Cocteau)
One Way For Another (Jean Tardeau)
7 Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism (Living Theater)
Suet (Dave Smilo, Demian)
Queer Hour (Demian, ensemble)
Return of Queer Hour (Demian, ensemble)
Host and Producer for 130 public affairs programs (WMUA, WBUR)
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Theater Workshops
Theater Workshops
Lead 130 workshops aimed at developing improvisational
skills and interpersonal relationships in a safe environment.
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Writing
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Writer for most of the film and video projects listed above, plus:
Sweet Corn Productions
8 Feature Film Scripts -
Available for reading by producers or agents.
Hey, Citizen
Street theater against the war
Broadcast Television
Perspectives on the Martial Arts on “NightShift,” Boston
T’ai Chi demonstration and narration
Script consultant:
Jimmy Rosenfield - Jimmy Rosenfield
Graphic Cypher Productions - Ray Woodall
Bursting Universe Productions - Kelly Abbott
PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology & Health) - Chris Ellias
AmKor Pharma - Robert Abbott
Script Doctor - Clarify and enhanced many theater and film scripts
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Video & Film Editing
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Editor for all the film and video projects listed above, plus:
Promotional:
The Silent One (Ray Woodall)
A sword and sorcery/noir fantasy trailer.
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Producer
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For many film, video, stage, and radio productions I have managed contracts, cast, crew, transportation, locations, equipment, costumes, food service, and publicity.
I have also managed personnel and supplies for a food coop, vegan restaurants, a cold storage operation, and arts departments for summer camps.
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Special Skills
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Acting, Puppetry (and the funny voices that go with them), Puppet Creation, Improvisation, some American Sign Language, Photography and Illustration, T’ai Chi, Script Doctor, Watch Repair, Videography, Computer Wiz, Web site Programming, Rabbit Wrangler.
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Education
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- Ed.D. and M.Ed., University of Massachusetts
(Doctoral thesis based on leading 130 theater workshops)
- B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art (painting major)
- Theater and movement workshops with Carolee Schneeman and Yvonne Rainer
- Theater workshops with The Open Theater, Manhattan Project, and The Living Theater
- Certificate in Clock and Watch Repair, San Francisco Community College
- FCC Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit
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