Staff

Dawn Youngs

Stage Manager
Dawn Youngs has been a bit of a gypsy for the last decade and a half but is pleased to be finally sending down roots here in Austin. An actress, director and visual artist, Dawn is most pleased to be working on a new project; Spooky Action Ranch. Dawn Youngs and her husband founded Spooky Action Ranch in Hill Country Texas with the goal of providing a sustainable off grid retreat for artists and creatives. Dawn is busy building this living sculpture by shaping paths and nuturing plants to create a soothing mediative journey through the land. In addition, Dawn continues to work on several theater projects, is a regular practitioner of Baron Baptiste’s power vinyasa yoga, is working to put together her first gallery show, and is loving life in Hill Country Texas.

William Gold

Program Director
William Gold is an adherent and a devotee of a particular kind of Dionysian rite. Aspiring to better understand the nature of reality, and imbued with the profundity of the human and cosmic mystery, he often seeks to liberate his mind from the psychological repressions of civilized society via the ritualistic invocation of intoxicating agents, such as wine, whilst he confers with other minds of a similar disposition. In other words, he likes to get drunk and talk philosophy.

William invites you to contact him with ideas for Dionysium debates, lectures, presentations, performance pieces, or with revelations regarding the meaning of life. Contact him atwilliamgold2@hotmail.com.

L.B. Deyo

President

L.B. Deyo is the author of Invisible Frontier: Exploring the tunnels, ruins & rooftops of hidden New York, co-founder of Jinx multimedia, and editor of Jinx magazine.

Buzz Moran

Chairman

Buzz Moran is the co-founder and Managing Director of the Dionysium. Moran has worked with the Salvage Vanguard Theater since 1996. He has made audio recordings of many SVT projects, including MotherBone and The Cry Pitch Carrolls as well as performing sound design duties for several productions. Currently Buzz performs live dialogue and sound effects for his Foleyvision show at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. He manages his company, Shamrock Records, for which he has produced albums like Golden Arm Trio’s Why the Sea is Salt and The Transgressors’ self-titled CD. He won the B. Iden Payne award for sound design in 2002 for SVT’s Intergalactic Nemesis Redux.

Graham Reynolds

Maestro

Graham Reynolds is an Austin, Texas based composer and musician. His two main projects are Golden Arm Trio (eclectic power-jazz) and Golden Hornet Project (composed music for classical ensembles). He does music for theater, dance, and film and has played across the United States and Europe. Golden Arm Trio has released two full-length CDs and Golden Hornet Project has a 20 CDR Box Set. Graham’s work includes 3 symphonies, countless string quartets and other chamber music, an opera, and more. His two instruments are piano and drums.

Chris Gibson

Assistant Production Manager

Chris Gibson – Graduate,  American Musical and Dramatic Academy (1990). Actor for several producing companies in Tampa, FL; The Loft Theatre, The Tampa Players, American Stage Theatre , The Off-Center Theatre, B.O.B. (theatrical palindrome) and The Hillsborough Moving Company. Producer of the Orlando International Fringe Festival (2001-2004). Co-producer and performer,  La Putain avec les Fleurs”. Production Manager at Orlando’s Mad Cow Theatre (2005) . Actor for Mad Cow and The Orlando Shakespeare Theatre. Tour Guide for Austin Overtures (2006-Present). Actor for The Austin Playhouse, Zach Scott Theatre, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, and The Da! Theatre Collective.