Alan Bruun is a founding member of Mad Cow and serves as Co-Artistic Director. As a director of over 60 professional productions of opera, musical theatre and drama, Alan's productions have included Faust, Madama Butterfly, The Fantasticks, Oklahoma!, Falsettos, Cosi Fan Tutte, Master Harold and The Boys, Assassins and A Few Good Men. A popular and dynamic collaborator in the Central Florida arts community, Alan has served as Artistic Director of The Civic Theatres and Director of Production for The Orlando Opera, acted with The Orlando Shakespeare Festival and Orlando Theatre Project, directed for the University of Central Florida and collaborated with the Orlando Philharmonic. For Walt Disney World, Alan serves as creative show director for new projects and special events, creating high-profile live entertainment both here and around the country. For Disney he has directed, staged and written for Christopher Reeve, Michael Eisner, General Colin Powell, The Phillip Glass Ensemble, Aerosmith, Cirque du Soleil, Hayley Mills, two cruise ships and two thousand exceptional children. Alan graduated from Occidental College, Phi Beta Kappa also attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and New York University. For Mad Cow, Alan has directed Betrayal, Master Harold, The Turn of the Screw, 4Quartets, The Fantasticks, Ghosts, Anton in Show Business and the award winning The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Arcadia, Romeo and Juliet and Urinetown. Alan also directed The Cherry Orchard - after a year long exploration guiding The Chekhov Project.