Collaborations Limited, a Subchapter S Corporation, is a theatrical development and production company founded by Jeremy Black in 2003. CL develops new plays and musicals that display a potential for broad popularity.  CL is a member of the National Alliance for Musical Theater.

History of SPLIT ENDS and Collaborations Limited:

In February 2004 CL produced an Off Broadway cabaret workshop production of SPLIT ENDS at the Triad Theater in NYC (click for review).

The limited run played once a week for 18 weeks. The workshop was staged by Tony Stevens (Broadway choreographer and Bob Fosse assistant) and several costumes were designed by Bobby Pearce (Tony Award nominee, TABOO). Sue Maskaleris was Music Director and the show featured actors Sidney Myer (MAC award winner), Marty Grabstein (voice of "Courage the Cowardly Dog") and Jeremy Black (clones in "The Boys from Brazil").  

CL continued to develop the show with the writers by bringing in other artists to expand the show from cabaret to musical theater. CL is building a creative team that currently includes Fred Stroppel as head bookwriter and Phil Reno (PRODUCERS and DROWSY CHAPERONE) as Music Supervisor. Creative work sessions and readings of SPLIT ENDS are shaping the show for the next production level.

History of JOURNEY TO CREATION and Collaborations:

                   

After a concert presentation at Joe’s Pub, part of New York’s Public Theatre, Collaborations helped bring the musical to the attention of director Tom O’Horgan (HAIR, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR).  With the help of Suki West, O’Horgan mentored further development in a series of staged readings.  The musical also benefitted from the guidance of the late Rebecca “Sami” Sargent of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.

In further close collaboration with the writer, CL has reworked the musical’s original premise and themes.   CL is currently seeking a bookwriter to bring into the project. Click here for more info.

Jeremy Black, Founding Producer / President
Jeremy is an actor, writer and producer. His first year acting professionally was at age fourteen, when he appeared in Robert Anderson's "All Summer Long" at Southbury Playhouse.

Shortly after that, he was cast in the film "The Boys from Brazil", as the clones of Hitler. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in English, he performed with Chicago's Remains Ensemble in Brecht's Puntila and His Hired Man.. In New York, he has appeared in the Actor's Playhouse production of Mice in the Theatre, in Anna Karenina at Circle in the Square, and in various productions at the Access and Castillo theatres.

In 2002, he collaborated with the composer Victor Koulaphides and wrote the libretto for Perpetua, a short opera about the life of the Christian martyr. As producer, he designed an WNYE radio program of stories written and recorded by children. He also co-produced, Nothing Really Happens, a film which won first prize at the Director's View Film Festival. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Theatre Arts at SUNY Stony Brook.

Jason Hale, Managing Producer Jason is an actor, director and producer. He has performed across the United States with many regional theaters and ensembles including the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble and was a resident actor with the Pennsylvania Stage Co. Jason has acted, directed and produced Off and Off Off Broadway with several companies including The Theatre Project Ensemble, an Off Broadway company he founded and directed from 2000-2004.

Jason is a graduate of the New Actors Workshop and studied privately with Paul Sills since 1991. He is a faculty member at the New Actors Workshop where he teaches the improvisational work of Viola Spolin and sense memory. He has taught at Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York University and workshops with the Screen Actors' Guild, New Jersey Performing Arts Center and the Olusum Drama Institute in Istanbul, Turkey.