Associates

 Alexander Cardinalli (Choreographer) a previous local to Maui, went to New York to get his education in choreography, attending CW Post of Long Island University for a BFA in dance at 17. He was founder, artistic director, and head choreographer for the Student Dance Organization and a soloist performer for the Post Concert Dance Company. While going to school, choreographing, and performing, he was also the assistant choreographer/assistant director for You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. He went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy to gain experience working with singers and actors and to learn about Musical Theatre. The teachers honed in on his choreography experience, and he soon became dance captain for all his classes and a primary choreographer for school productions. After graduating with a conservatory degree in Musical Theatre, he performed in Free Will & Wonton Lust, A Raisin in the Sun, CATS, A City of Strangers, Little Shop of Horrors, Music Man, The Full Monty, and The Goodbye Girl, to name a few. He then expanded The Academy of Dance Arts California and Nevada, bringing with him a professional Musical Theatre program and various East Coast dance techniques. He was a featured guest performer at the Reno Hilton for Best in Ten Years, co-founder and co-artistic director for the Sierra Ballet Theatre Company, and designed Professional Musical Theatre for Non-Professionals, Dancer’s Body Work Out, and Stretching for Non and Professional Dancers programs. Other Choreographic Credits Include: Cats, All That Jazz, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Thriller, Faces of Rejection, Paquita, The Fire Ballet, A Rainforest…Ballet, Dance is the Key, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Music to Monte Python, Grease, Little Mermaid, Billboard’s Number 1 Hits, The King & I, Too Many Princesses and Once on this Island. Director/Choreographer for Maui OnStage's The Spirit of the Iao. (2008) Cats (2011)

Michael Pulliam (Production Associate) Likes to think he was “born in a trunk in the Paramount Theater in Pocatello, Idaho.” In reality it was a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He first fell in love with the idea of a life in the theater after seeing Ben Vareen perform in “Pippin.” Active in community and professional theater for thirty years his previous “homes” include The Cable Car Theater (SF), Steppenwolf (Chicago), Victory Garden (Chicago), the Annoyance Theater (Chicago), the Friars Club of Beverly Hills and for the past four seasons here at the Historic Iao Theater on Maui. A jack-of-all-trades, Michael occasionally performs but prefers the biz side: promoting, marketing and managing special events and MOS main stage productions. In addition to his past theater company positions he is the author of three plays produced in SF, Chicago and LA; director of two short subjects screened at the SF Film Festival and the Tokyo Film Festival; has worked for several Emmy winning and nominated television production companies; and writes a weekly theater column for the Maui News. Michael is the Festival Director of the Maui Fringe Festival and he is most passionate about brand new plays. After a lengthy gypsy life in the big cities he feels very blessed to settle down with his Maui theater Ohana, here at the Historic Iao Theater!