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ABOUT BRAD McENTIRE

Information... Biographical and Otherwise

Dribble Funk is what you're looking at right now. It is the website of low-rent jet-setter and performing artist Brad McEntire (that's me). Under the Dribble Funk moniker I create and perform solo works for the stage and fashion various works of art as a self-initiating freelance theatre artist. Dribble Funk also happens to be the name of the long-form improvised solo format I continue to develop. I will now switch to the more official-sounding third-person...

Born and bred in Texas, Brad McEntire is a mask and puppet maker, performer, playwright, director and teacher. From 1999 to 2006 he was the founding Artistic Director of theatre group Audacity Productions. He currently is the Artistic Director of Audacity Theatre Lab and the Literary Manager at the Undermain Theatre in Dallas.

Brad is an original member of the DFW Playwrights' Alliance, a current member of UNIMA-USA, and a former company member with Dallas' innovative Our Endeavors Theater Collective. He has also been a performer, director and instructor with Plano Children's Theatre where he has worked intermittently as part of their Professional Touring Series for over seven years. Brad is a veteran of several sketch and improvisational comedy troupes including Estranged Bedfellows (NM), Molotov Cockroach (NYC), The French Club Dropouts and the Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour (both of Dallas, TX). He most recently performed with the improv group The Victims and is currently one half of the comedy duo Fun Grip.

Brad studied shadow puppetry at Hong Kong's Ming Ri Institute of Puppetry and mask performance technique with international teacher/performer Hoi Chiu. Brad has also trained in European style clowning with Texas' Jeffry Farrell and Spain's Andreu Segura and American circus-style clowning with Barry "Grandma" Lubin and John "Mr. Fish" Lepiarz of Big Apple Circus as well as Larry Pisoni (Founder of the Pickle Family Circus) at the NY Goofs. Brad has studied improv with the likes of Charna Halpern (ImprovOlympic), Asaf Ronen (YesAnd.com) and Andy Eninger (Second City, Chicago). Brad holds a BFA in Theatre and Performance Arts from New Mexico's College of Santa Fe and a Master's degree in Playwriting from Texas Woman's University.

Brad's play FOR THE LOVE OF AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST world-premiered at Dallas' 2004 Festival of Independent Theatres. His musical shadow puppet retelling of RAPUNZEL, created in collaboration with musicians Lee Holt and Stuart Grant, played in 2006 and 2007 in Hong Kong. His plays and stage creations continue to be staged, mostly around the United States. In the summer of 2008, Brad had his first collection of plays published. Brad is one of a handful of pioneering performers in the sub-arcana of solo improvisation (there are only a dozen or so practitioners in the United States). He is the creator of the original solo improv format Dribble Funk.

Artistic Statement...

Well, this changes periodically (which I think is a good thing), but for the time being it would be:

I aim to explore the relationship between the artist and the audience using traditional and non-traditional performance tools as my means of communication. I am drawn to, and strive to create, dynamic and visceral art that has importance; that makes a powerful, universal statement in a contemporary, spontaneous way; that is, above all, theatrical.

For a more detailed statement, click here.

For more info...

Visit my other online homes such as: MySpace. LiveJournal. InfoZoom. Or the Audacity Productions website.

Contact Brad...

I can be e-mailed at: dribblefunk@yahoo.com

Special Thanks to Tony at Optimum Return for his help with this site. Thanks, dude!