Co-Owner
CurrentDesperate Characters is a creative entertainment team with offices in Dallas, Las Vegas and Miami. We consult with corporations on pre-event scoping and strategy, creative direction and major event production, and training your in-house staff for future productions. Our seasoned team helps you create the most innovative show possible, while avoiding budget, talent and other production pitfalls that can prevent you from meeting your goals. With Desperate Characters on your team, your event will… Show more Desperate Characters is a creative entertainment team with offices in Dallas, Las Vegas and Miami. We consult with corporations on pre-event scoping and strategy, creative direction and major event production, and training your in-house staff for future productions. Our seasoned team helps you create the most innovative show possible, while avoiding budget, talent and other production pitfalls that can prevent you from meeting your goals. With Desperate Characters on your team, your event will be memorable for the right reasons.Bio: Minnie MaddenEveryone who knows or meets Minnie is immediately taken with her vibrant charisma, offbeat attitude towards life, and unique sense of style.Minnie Madden’s expansive entertainment career spans over 25 years nationally and internationally on ice, land, and sea. Her multitude projects range from Film, Music Videos, Televised Events and Touring Ice Shows, to spectacular Vegas Production Shows and major Theme Park Attractions. Select highlights include creating multiple Television Ice Specials starring numerous Olympic Champion Skaters and serving as President of Productions for Ice Capades, directing and choreographing shows featuring major Stars as well as lavish production shows created for Carnival Cruise Lines, founding her own Entertainment News Magazine ‘Dirt Alert/Callback’ Las Vegas, and being honored by the Mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar B. Goodman, for her “substantial contribution to the entertainment community”, when he proclaimed March 13th as Minnie Madden Day!In the last 5 years Minnie has been Creative Director for Mendelson Entertainment Group in Dallas, Texas and was the creative director for the Dallas Children’s Christmas Parade which is the largest one-day event in Dallas boasting 475,000 attendees. The parade was televised and seen in 280 TV markets and 160 countries. She was appointed Vice-President of Mendelson Entertainment Group in 2016. Show less