Meet the Team

Who We Are

We are a Maine based arts production house, featuring art in all forms meant to inspire conversation, get you to think, and effect positive cultural change!

Inspiration is everywhere, you just have to look for it. In our daily lives, we can see inspiration in each other, in our surroundings, it's everywhere. Often times we are just to busy to look, or our agenda driven mentalities doesn't allow us to stop and take a peek into someone else's story. Motivational Works of Art changes that for you. We force you to take a look. Not everything around is inspirational and sometimes you'll have to seek inspiration from an internal source and we have you covered there as well. We want to entertain you with our words, art, and music in a way that inspires you to look within for inspiration and not be afraid to seek it out as well.

Joe Swenson - President, Writer, Director, and Producer for Broken Arts Entertainment has a story to tell you, lots of them. All in the name of inspiring others to find the best version of themselves, to think, and to entertain. He does it in a variety of creative ways.

So often we are left without the tools on how to deal with everything that life can possibly throw your way. With that we want to make sure that all voices have an opportunity be heard and their works seen.

Joe Swenson - President, Writer, Director, and Producer

Creative outlets have been a staple of Joe's life forever. Author of the wildly popular young adult fiction novel, Letter #3 and the upcoming sequel The Key, writing is just one of his outlets. Actor, director, screen writer, and playwright are a few more. The goal is always to entertain, be thought provoking, and potentially inspire in whatever creative outlet that is being pursued.

While Broken Arts has been around since 2014, we really started to take off in 2020 with the pandemic forcing arts to be found in unique ways. Playground Rules was born out of this. None of this could be accomplished without the support of my loving and talented family first and creative and talented friends.

Click on Joe's picture to be taken to Joe's writer page!

Stanley Kimball - Chief Editor, Videographer, and Actor

Stanley heads up all of Broken Arts editing efforts during the pandemic. A student at SMCC, who is also an actor/singer. In addition, he hosts his own YouTube channel where he reviews movies. Check out his artistic highlights:

- started doing musical theater in his junior year of high school.
- did 3 shows with Lyric Music Theater as well as made a promotional video for one of them.
- had a small supporting roles in 2 movies that premiered at the Maine Mayhem Film Festival.
- hobbies include roller skating, critiquing movies and TV shows.
- like to write.

Josh Newton - Composer

Josh Newton is an international award-winning composer from Portland, ME. He earned his Master's Degree in Composition from the University of Southern Maine in 2013, studying with Daniel Sonenberg. His works have been performed by the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Ethel String Quartet and the Da Capo Chamber Players. He has been featured in a variety of capacities at the Portland Chamber Music Festival, Vox Novus, the Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival, New Music at Frontiers, Frantasia Fest and the Aspen Composers Conference.

Jamie Lupien Swenson - Casting Director and Consultant

Jamie Lupien Swenson is a Director, Choreographer, Actor, and Singer. She is adding Casting Director and Consultant to her creative efforts as she's been casting talent in the Maine theater community for over a decade.

Her directing and casting credits included but aren't limited to Lyric Music Theater's productions of Mathilda, Spring Awakening, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She has also choreographed shows at Lyric Music Theater for both Children's workshop and Main Stage shows. While this is her first foray into camera casting, she's been integral into casting several of Broken Arts Entertainment shows to date.

Alan Dillingham - Cinematographer and Videographer

Alan Dillingham, a veteran of the US Navy, with two degrees (one in New Media, the second in Liberal Studies with a concentration of Business and Arts). He started Killatainment Films in 2012 with the production Bloody Solstice. This project was the first of many which evolved into several feature films.
Alan prefers to use short films in order to experiment with angles, style, technique, and story-telling, adapting the successes for use in feature film. He also uses short films to develop talent both in front of and behind the camera.

Joe Swenson, president of Broken Arts Entertainment, met Alan on the set of How to Kill a Zombie.

Click on the picture to the left to go to Alan's website.

We love to collaborate. Please contact us by clicking on the FB page, Twitter, or E-mail us at brokenartsentertainment@gmail.com and lets get together and see what beautiful and inspirational art we can come up with.

"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Many different people.