Colleague Showcase

Amy Lipson

Amy Lipson is a multi-talented graphic artist and graphic designer who has honed her craft throughout NYC and abroad. Amy has a passion and true love of her work in musical theatre on Broadway and off. Her sensibility can be silly or serious, goofy or grand. Amy is open to everything to do with great design and has a special love of absurdist comedy and  British farce mixed perilously with a few of Jim Henson's Muppets in there somewhere.

Angel Aviles

Known as a ridiculously excellent graphic illustrator, Angel Aviles is a vet of the ink and paint comic book design that made Stan Lee and Bill Finger famous (for Marvel and DC Comics respectively). Angel is also a gifted poet and writer and self-proclaimed “tangible hologram.”

Jordan Siwek

Jordan is a singer-songwriter-pianist who has been playing piano, singing, and acting since the age of seven. He has acted professionally in numerous productions including Les Miserables on Broadway.

Jordan has studied Music, Jazz Piano and Improvisation at SUNY New Paltz (New York) and Kingston University (London). He was the lead singer and songwriter for the band Alpha State, a jazz-rock trio. He has performed his original songs in numerous venues around New York City and London. 

Though his primary passion is composing new material, Jordan regularly performs jazz standards, blues, bossa nova, pop, and rock songs. He has also worked as Head Musical Director in the Theater Program at Camp Hillard in Scarsdale, NY for over a decade. Jordan is a member of ASCAP and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).

 

Chris "EyeQ" Allen

NPCC Member EyeQ is an indie hip hop artist, visionary, emcee whose musical sights are set on merging his wide assortment of musical influences and love for anime into one powerhouse perfomance. Raised in Brooklyn, NY, the now Florida-based emcee has shared the stage with the likes of Doug Wimbish: legendary bassist for Living Colour, DiViNCi from Solillaquists of Sound, Mega Ran, MC Lars, Schaffer the Darkload, Sammus, Fresh Kils, founder of Grind time now Madd Illz, Eturn an SPS and many more. He is as busy in the studio as he is on the stage. Known for his Attack on Titan themed album Walls of Maria, he is currently working on his next album and has been collaberating on tracks with artists like Richie Branson, Mega Ran and Ben Briggs, and has work with the Nerdcore Super group RPG-Unit who’s debut album Rock Paper Genocide was featured on the front page of Kotaku, and Bandcamp, and also gained the acclaim of Randy Pictford and Gearbox.

EyeQ has since performed at events such as Nerdapoalooza, AFO, The Orlando Earthday Festival, headlined Omni Expo 2015. He’s played the Florida Music Festival, Orlando Nerd fest 2014 and 2015, SXSW 2016, Magfest 2016 Anime Expo 2016, and Otakon 2016. He was also nominated by the Orlando Weekly for Orlando's Best Hip Hop Artist of the Year award in 2016 and again in 2017. Influenced by greats like Stevie Wonder, Nujabes, Lupe Fiasco, Anita Baker with a dash of golden-age jazz and old school hip hop. With each project, he combines his various loves: drawing from his love of anime, video games, soul music, classical, and jazz to influence the outcome. His roots shine through on radio and live as he exudes an energy and passion that can not be mistaken.