Greenwood Hill Productions
Greenwood Hill Productions was established in 2007 as the film and TV division of Theatre A Go-Go, Inc., a nationally recognized commercial theatrical production company that produces live stage shows across the U.S., including the world premiere of new plays & musicals in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Greenwood Hill completed filming its first feature film, Dalton Trumbo’s JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, starring Ben McKenzie. For more information on the film visit www.JohnnyGotHisGunTheMovie.com.
Rowan Joseph
Rowan Joseph’s first film, Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun, was conceived as an educational video. After an initial screening, at Landmark’s E Street Cinema for the Washington D.C. Film Club, it was offered theatrical distribution by Magnolia Pictures’ Truly Indie.
The film had its World Premiere at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, TX and played art houses in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and smaller venues such as the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading, PA, Joseph’s hometown.
Variety called the movie, “A thrilling accomplishment ably filmed by veteran stage producer-director Rowan Joseph.” The NY Times said, “Under the capable direction of Rowan Joseph, (Ben) McKenzie enthusiastically delivers Joe’s extended monologue…” and Marshall Fine, Chairman of the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle, wrote, “The timing seems perfect for Rowan Joseph’s unique and powerful new version of Dalton Trumbo’s ‘Johnny Got His Gun.’ Trumbo himself directed a film version in 1971 that was much more literal and viscerally horrifying; Joseph’s version, while packing the same emotional power, is a more poetic, more imaginative version.”
After the movie’s release, Joseph, returned to his career as a successful producer, director, and executive in the American Theatre. He built, opened, and operated the Century Center for the Performing Arts / Century Theatre in New York City, where he presented Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, How I Learned to Drive. As the first Executive Director of the Laurie Beechman Theatre (NYC) he premiered the early works of such acclaimed writers as Aaron Sorkin, Peter Hedges, and Donald Margulies. In Los Angeles, he established and ran the Falcon Theatre for his mentor, legendary film & TV producer/director, Garry Marshall for five seasons prior to working for ten years with Penny Marshall.
As a screenwriter, Joseph and writing partner, Derek Heeren, have written The Pottsville Maroons, based on the true story of the early days of the National Football League and a coal miner who traded in his pick-ax for a football, carrying his small town’s team to the 1925 Championship, only to have it forfeited in what the History Channel called the greatest scandal in the NFL’s 100yr history. The screenplay won a Los Angeles International Screenplay Award and was a finalist in the 2022 ScreenCraft and We Screenplay Competitions. It was initially developed as a co-production with the late Penny Marshall.
Joseph & Heeren’s screenplay, Hexe, a faith-based teen horror/suspense/romance set in the Pennsylvania Amish country, was a recent finalist in the 2023 ScreenCraft Horror Competition. Hexe was optioned by producer, Keli Price and Price Productions. The film is scheduled to begin shooting this October in New Wilmington, PA, outside Pittsburgh, with Joseph directing.
Shane Partlow
Shane Partlow has produced film and theatre. He produced the comedy horror cult classic movie Beauty Queen Butcher. He also co-produced the critically-acclaimed feature film Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun starring Ben McKenzie (The O.C., Southland, Gotham). The film played arthouse cinemas across the US.
With Rowan Joseph he found Theatre A Go-Go, Inc which has produced live stage show across the U.S. including the world premiere of new plays & musicals in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Partlow co-produced the world premiere of The Queen of Bingo in Chicago’s historic Loop theatre district, the Off-Brodway premiere at the Greenwich House Theatre in New York, the Los Angeles production at the Coronet Theater in Hollywood, and the national tour for fourteen years.
He was an associate producer on Tapestry, The Music of Carole King Off-Broadway. For five years, Partlow co-produced the national tour of An Evening With Jack Klugman starring the three-time Emmy Award winner.
As an actor he can be seen playing the ‘tailor’ in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture Green Book starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. Television credits include: Will & Grace, Gilmore Girls, iCarly, Imagination Movers, Breakout Kings, Common Law, Scream Queens, Roots, Claws, Preacher, The Amazing Race (with Rowan Joseph), Leverage: Redemtion starring Noah Wyle, National Treasure: Edge of History with Catherine Zeta-Jones and ManHunt for Apple TV. Other film credits include: Princess Diaries 2, Georgia Rule, Inventing Adam, Video Girl, Xtinction, Knucklehead, The Chaperone, Madea’s Witness Protection and Lisa Frankenstein directed by Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin Williams.