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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.
 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
My Happy Store,
Shaw Literary
Group, the
International African Arts
Festival, and the
Presbyterian Church of Saint Albans, among others.
Click
here for screenshots.
 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 Associate Director of the Theatre of the Living Word, a
community-based dramatic troupe. Campbell is 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, 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 appe ared 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. 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.
 Marlon 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.
His other interests include wildlife, temporal mechanics, and mystery
fiction.
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