Co-founded in Brooklyn by childhood friends Jef Taylor and Michael Tisdale, Leaky Tent has grown into a collective of artists from a variety of disciplines working together to bend traditional storytelling by experimenting both inside and outside our usual mediums. Leaky Tent's goal is to tell stories in unique, innovative, and thought-provoking ways.

Leaky Tent recently finished two music videos for the Brooklyn-based band NICKCASEY, which featured members of the Mark Morris Dance Company and acclaimed actress Alison Pill (Milk, “In Treatment”). They are currently working on a feature-length version of their short film After You Left, which was an Official Selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Jef Taylor
co-founder

Jef Taylor is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker whose work has screened at festivals worldwide, including Cleveland International, Expresion en Corto, Heartland, and Method Fest. He received the award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing at VisionFest for his short film COVERAGE, and was named Best Editor as a graduate student at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Michael Tisdale
co-founder

Since graduating from Juilliard in 1996, Michael has been active (as both actor and writer) in the creation of theatre & film in New York, L.A., and throughout the U.S. His stage plays have been developed and/or produced at or by The Atlantic, NYU Tisch, Hartford Stage, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and Cleveland Public Theatre. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.