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Born
in Kingston, Jamaica,
Marlon Campbell
is a prolific Multi-Media Designer and Technical
Director, working primarily in
New York City.
His precise, deliberate, and
imaginative style is applied to
Graphic Design,
Film & Theatrical Production,
and
Internet Communications.
His work can be seen in
logos,
posters, stationary, CD covers,
web sites,
videos,
stage shows,
and publicity materials for a variety of artists,
entrepreneurs, and organizations. His clients have
included Project HOPE, New York University, Tokyo's
Broadway Musical Academy, The Equinox Group, and
International Creative Marketing (ICM), as well as
performers such as the late Harold Melvin of the
Blue Notes, Patti LaBelle, Expose, KRS-One,
Troop,
Ray, Goodman, and Brown, Naughty by Nature, and
Janet Jackson.
Mr. Campbell
is the Editor-in-Chief of
Street Ethics Magazine,
the award-winning Internet-based news and features
publication. He has also created
web presences for the Madam CJ Walker Foundation,
Shaw Literary Group,
the International African Arts
Festival,
and the
Presbyterian Church of Saint
Albans,
among others.
Marlon
Campbell has also served as
Stage Manager
for numerous productions. These range from New
York's Harlem Week Celebration, Women in Jazz, the
Asian-American Dance Festival, the Kwanzaa Expo at
Jacob Javits Center, and the Madison Avenue Street
Fair, to special ceremonies at New York City Hall
and the United Nations. He was the Technical
Coordinator of Aaron Davis Hall, at the City College
of New York, and is the Executive Director of the
Theatre of the Living Word, a community-based
dramatic troupe. Campbell was also the Production
Manager of Vy Higginsen's Mama, I Want to Sing!,
and its sequels. He has overseen performances at
Madison Square Garden, Union Square Theatre,
Washington's Warner Theater, Nashville's Grand Ole
Opry, Louisville, Kentucky's Whitney Center, Der
Weiner Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria, as well as
tours of Germany, Switzerland, and Japan.
 In
addition, Mr. Campbell has served as
Property Master
for several New Federal Theatre productions,
including Christchild, Robert Johnson:
Trick the Devil, Checkmates, and
Bessie Speaks!, as well as the National Black
Touring Circuit's Brother Malcolm X, at
Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture. He also provided props for productions of
the operas Pagliacci, Suor Angelica,
Madama Butterfly, and La Boheme, as
well as the thriller Wait Until Dark.
He
designed the sets
and special properties for the world premieres of
Amiri Baraka's Primitive World (a
post-apocalyptic, anti-nuclear jazz musical), David
Short's Gutterman, Douglas Nathaniel Williams'
Coralfish Island, and Monroe Dornbusch's Miss
Everlasting Joy. His props have also appeared in
live productions at The American Museum of Natural
History, the Lamb's Theatre, Nuyorican Poet's Cafe,
Black Spectrum Theatre, and the Billie Holliday
Theatre. Mr. Campbell dressed the sets for the films
Let's Get
Busy, Black Utopia, and A Warning from
the Ancestors, and propped music videos for rap
artists such as Doug E. Fresh and Ice-T. He is known
for his design of elaborate imaginary or real
mechanical devices, as well as his faithful and
resourceful renderings of period settings.
Mr.
Campbell
was the
Lighting Designer
for the Off-Broadway productions Gospel Is,
and The Children's Legacy, and has installed
and/or operated lighting systems at Bronx Community
College, Roy Wilkins Center, St. Paul's Community
Baptist Church, Ansche Chesed, and the New York
Reggae Music Festival.
 He
formulated the curricula and served as
Instructor
for courses in Theatrical Production, taught at the
South Orange Middle School, in New Jersey, and at
Long Island City's LaGuardia Community College, for
the City University Research Foundation. He is also
an instructor in Computer Science and HTML for the
Saint Albans Multipurpose Community Center.
He
a is a very happily married new father, residing in
Queens, New York. His
other interests include wildlife, temporal
mechanics, and mystery fiction.
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