Subtle Manipulation – Cory Neale and Michael Broussard (aka Michael Subvert)

Subtle Manipulation is a collaborative project between musician/artist Cory Neale and actor/performance artist Michael Broussard (aka Michael Subvert).

Cory Neale is a Philadelphia born-and-raised architect, musician, and artist. He is a project-driven individual who uses his training in architecture to address and execute ventures in visual art and music. He believes that the collaborative nature of architectural design and construction is a direct parallel to that which is necessitated in the practice of cross-disciplinary art.

Cory is a self-taught double bassist and composer. He has appeared on several nationally-distributed albums as both writer and performing musician. His experience spans many genres including experimental jazz, hip-hop, classical, and pop music. Cory has also extended into other media, scoring and performing for a variety of dancers and dance companies, as well as film scoring and sound design. His compositions take on both acoustic and electronic instrumentation in order to have a full complement of sound at his disposal to communicate the intended message.

You can find out more about Cory at his website, http://www.coryneale.com/.

Michael Broussard (aka Michael Subvert) began his performing career back in 2003, when he wrote, directed and starred in the hit Philadelphia Fringe Festival show, “Altar Boy: The Musical”.

Michael trained at the Walnut Street Theatre with Jose Aviles and Heather Krause and at Philly Improv Theater with Kristen Schier and Amie Roe.

Notable screen roles include Richard in the Philly-themed anthology feature “Hoagie”, a crazed stalker in the horror short “Dixie”, Ed in the international web series “The Groom”, the Nerdy School Photographer in the MTV hit music video “Bang Pop” by the band Free Energy, and as Benny Filbert in “A Turn of the Blinds” (starring alongside Brian Anthony Wilson aka Det. Vernon Holley of HBO’s “The Wire”).

Onstage Michael has played an obnoxious hospital administrator in the play “Insurance” at the Freedom Theater, a “cheaters”-type TV Host in “Domestic Relations” at the Adrienne, and of course the protagonist Mikey in the abovementioned “Altar Boy”.

In addition to his work as an actor, Michael also fronts a 50s-style rock n’ roll, blues, swing and country band, Crazy Man Crazy, and he hosts and produces “The Five Minute Follies”, an onstage tribute to the golden age of variety.

For more info visit the Michael Broussard and Michael Subvert pages on Facebook.