Executive Director
Ensemble Member Since: 1998
Mad Horse Productions:
Sound Design:
The Dresser, The History Boys, The Women of My Father’s House, Criminal Hearts, Angels in America Parts I and II, A Streetcar Named Desire, Skylight, What the Butler Saw, Three Viewings, The Ugly Man, The Free Company Presents (Foley table), 12 Angry Men, Suburban Motel, The Mercy Seat, Wonder of the World, Cloud 9, What Happened Was, Boston Marriage, Baby With the Bathwater, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Bug, Joe Egg, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Of Mice and Men, Hedda Gabler, The Children's Hour; Sound design, composing and mentoring for Mad Horse Children’s Theatre 1991-1996
Original Scores and Cast Member:
Betrayal (original score), Repossession (original score), Off the Map (original score), The Laramie Project (original score and cast member), The Bacchae (cast member, composing, music direction)
Barbara has been involved with the Portland performing arts scene since 1989. As an administrator, performer and/or designer she has worked or continues to work with several local organizations and individuals including Mad Horse Theatre, The Theater Project, Acorn Productions, Figures of Speech Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Ram Island Dance, Bates Dance Festival, Maine Jazz Alliance, Michael Lane Trautman, Loopin’, the Maine Squeeze and more. As a volunteer she has served on the boards and committees of WMPG, Maine Composers Forum, Maine Jazz Alliance, and hosts a weekly radio program at WMPG. She is currently the Executive Director and resident sound designer for Mad Horse Theatre in Portland.
A performing musician since the 1960's, Truex has been active in a wide range of musical genres and contexts. She is recognized as an innovator for her use of the fretted dulcimer in jazz, pop, free improvisational music and other settings beyond the familiar folk and traditional realms. She has extensive experience working with dance and theater ensembles, both as a composer and on stage musical accompanist. As a recording artist Truex has been involved with many projects for other artists as well as her own solo and group releases. She also teaches through private instruction, workshops and school residencies. She was the founding director of the Northeast Dulcimer Symposium and ran the week-long annual festival for seventeen years.
Truex is also an owner/partner with Christopher White of Arts Resource Service, a full spectrum arts consultation company. Founded in the mid 1980's by White, ARS provides clients with an extremely large range of services including; brokering art sales, exhibition design and installation, database creation and management, grant writing, board development, fund raising, booking performances, financial management, audio production and more. White and Truex operated a fine art gallery on Congress St. in Portland for three years.
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