Meet the Board
Paul Warshauer
Paul Warshauer has been involved in performing arts and business for over 40 years. A proud Chicagoan, Mr. Warshauer began his career at age 10 playing Macbeth in an abbreviated school play and he’s been hooked ever since.
Paul has written, produced and directed nearly 300 productions. He has directed theater classes and plays for casts of all ages, and has taught theater arts in public and private schools.
Paul’s interest in Murder Theater began in 1991 when he created audience participation dinner theaters for Classicos, an Italian restaurant in
In his “spare time,” Mr. Warshauer owns and operates The Retzler Development Group and Grande Venues, Inc., a development company that acquires, restores, rehabilitates, or operates historic old theatres and buildings. He has created lineups for film festivals nationwide including the newest in
John Flaherty
John Flaherty is Treasurer and a founding Board Member of the Grand Island International Film Festival. He has a long history of film interest, having Studied French and Russian Films, Film Theory, and the film makers Hitchcock and Bergman while at the University of Steubenville.
He is a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner in private practice, has three grown sons and lives with Timmy, his high maintenance wonder collie.
Mike Bockoven
Mike Bockoven has written and lectured about movies for more than 10 years. Aside from the heavy stack of periodicals and magazines in which he’s been published, Mike appears every Monday morning on the KSYZ Fun Morning Show as the “Movie Guru,” teaches a class at Doane College on film and has attended various film festivals in the past 6 years.
He currently serves as the Marketing Director at the lovely Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer and is married with two daughters.
Other board members include:
Dori Bush
Sonya Koperski
Molly Johnson
