Our Team
Scott H. Schneider
Sole Principal
Intuitive Production Management
Sole Principal, Intuitive Production Management
Before founding IPM in 2017, Scott spent three decades building a career across theatre, opera, and live events — director of more than 30 productions with companies including Bad Dog Productions (which he co-founded) and the Yale Drama Alumni Playwright's Project, and Management credits such as The Preacher and The Shrink and An Error of the Moon (The Beckett Theatre), The Megile of Itzik Manger and KulturefestNYC (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene), She Loves Me (Caramoor), Marie Galante (Opera Français de New York, American premiere), Darkling(American Opera Projects), and Joy (The Actors' Playhouse). Scott has served as Production Manager for the Bronx Opera Company for 20 seasons and counting — a relationship that began under Maestro Michael Spierman and continues today through IPM's recent productions of Ariadne auf Naxos, Idomeneo, Così fan tutte, and Hansel and Gretel. His production work has included Jacob Burns Film Center galas honoring Steven Spielberg, Behn Zeitlin, and Jonathan Demme, featuring tribute remarks from Ron Howard, Meryl Streep, and Jodie Foster. Profiled in Opera News (October 2015). Stage manager for opera and theatre Off Broadway, regional, and on tour. Design credits include lighting for Centenary Stage Company, dell'Arte Opera Ensemble, and Club Med International.
Prior to pursuing a career in the arts full-time, Scott served as acting comptroller for a Wall Street financial technology firm whose trade-order-routing software, at its peak, handled roughly 40% of all U.S. listed options volume — then worked alongside the firm's comptroller, whose deep expertise in financial systems design shaped Scott's own approach, to develop the company's management information systems. That background informs Scott's approach to production management today, bringing the discipline of structured, reliable systems to the inherently chaotic work of live performance.
Former Treasurer, Stage Managers' Association; graduate, Wesleyan University.
Now sole principal of IPM, Scott leads the company's work with the direct, hands-on attention of its founding vision and the support of a dedicated Advisory Council.
Ray Rodriguez
Associate Production Manager/
Technical Director
Associate Production Manager/Technical Director
Ray A. Rodriguez has worked with IPM since its inception and the company's first show, Puffs, in 2017. His work spans production management, technical direction, carpentry, and fight direction — serving as Assistant Production Manager on Hannah Senesh, Did You Eat?, White Rose: The Musical, The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, and Heartbeat Opera's Tosca, Lady M, Eugene Onegin, and The Extinctionist. He served as Technical Director on L'amant anonyme, Bounce: The Basketball Opera, and Becomes a Woman, and as Master Carpenter on Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Partnership, and Costa Brazil. Among the many other clients Ray has worked with are American Opera Projects, Bronx Opera, Parity Productions, and CAMP. A fight director and Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) certified teacher, Ray choreographed the fight direction for Triskaidekaphelia and The Abduction from the Seraglio. A graduate of Adelphi University, where he now serves on faculty, Ray is also a stunt performer/coordinator, with credits including Renfield and Wu-Tang: An American Saga, alongside his ongoing work as an actor and theatre director.
Contact:
929-525-1124
Charles “Chuck” Albano
Technical Director/Rigging
Charles “Chuck” Albano’s association with IPM grew out of years on the house crew at Hunter College’s Kaye Playhouse, where he first worked with Bronx Opera. His work spans rigging, technical direction, and carpentry — serving as Head Rigger on Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Partnership, Heartbeat Opera’s Tosca and Lady M, and White Rose: The Musical; as Technical Director/Rigger on Did You Eat?; as Technical Director/Master Carpenter for the exhibition build-out of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center at Governors Island; and as Head Carpenter on Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground. He also served as Technical Director/Crew Lead for the strike of Midsummer: A Banquet and for the film project Mirrors, and provided technical assistance on The Impresario, IPM’s film project with Bronx Opera. Off-Broadway, Chuck served as Technical Director/Master Carpenter on The Megile of Itzik Manger, Master Carpenter on The Preacher and the Shrink, and Technical Director/Rigger for the National Yiddish Theatre’s KulturfestNYC. His corporate and special-events work includes ADM Creative and Staging Techniques. A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Chuck is a Theatre Technician and Technical Instructor at Nassau Community College; his earlier work includes Gray Wig Theatre at Hofstra University from 1992 to 2006. He also serves as a volunteer firefighter with the Westbury Fire Department.