CREATIVE TEAM
Dale Allan Johnson
Ideator, Screenwriter, Supervisor, Executive Producer
Dale has an immensely varied portfolio of experience, skills, and talents:
● Business Major in Marketing, double minor in Psychology and Journalism
● Off-Off-Broadway/Fringe theater writer/producer/sometime director of 8 acclaimed plays and musicals running from one month to six months over a 20 year period.
● Thirty year career as advertising copywriter (Campbell Ewald, Ted Bates), Creative Group Head (Benton & Bowles) and Executive VP, Executive Creative Director (Publicis)
● Creative Director for ten years in proprietary research division specializing in discovering and exploiting consumer attitudes to create mass purchaser behavior change
● Managed up to $40 million of business, with multiple teams of creative writers and art directors; creating, budgeting, and producing thousands of ad campaigns including over one-hundred commercials at $300,000-$700,000 each.
● Alumni of New York 1992 Commercial Theater Producing Workshop
● Founder of Cinema eVerite’ LLC independent Film Studio
● Since 2018, created and produced one feature film and seven short films garnering a total of 115 international awards nominations and winning 21 awards.
● 12 directing nominations, won 2 directing awards, directed 16 best film nominations/awards, directed 22 best acting nominations.
● 6 screenwriting nominations/awards
Alexandra Tebano
Producer, Actress, and Writer
● A graduate from New York University with a concentration in Film Performance and Media Marketing through a Psychological and Anthropological Lens with a minor in Social Entrepreneurship from the Stern School of Business
● Her production and acting work has premiered on Showtime, CNN, Oxygen, Lifetime, and HBO.
● She has studied under Sabra Jones at the Lee Strasberg Institute and Chitra Neogy at Tisch School of the Arts and London Dramatic Academy.
● She is a part of New York Women in Television and Film and well as the New York Writers Institute where she has studied under Campbell McGrath, Elizabeth Benedict, James Wood, and Gregory Pardlo.
● Her first short film, “Tamar Rising” garnered international critical acclaim which she directed, produced, co-wrote, and starred in .For CeV she has produced 18 Best Short Film Nominations. She has won three Best Actress Nominations, and has garnered 4 Best Director Nominations, 5 Best Acting Nominations, and 2 Best Screenplay Nominations.