Tanya Barfield
Playwright
Theatre: Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons, South coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory, Berkeley Repertory), Dent, The Quick, The Houdini Act, 121º West. Awards: Recipient of the 2003 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, 2005 Honorable Mention for the Kesselring Prize for Drama, a 2006 Lark Play Development/ NYSCA grant and she has been twice been a finalist for the Princess Grace Award. Residencies: the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab (Utah and the Ucross Foundation), New York Stage and Film, the Royal Court International Residency and Seattle Rep’s Women Playwrights Festival at Hedgebrook. Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, Center Theatre Group, South coast Repertory, Primary Stages and Geva Theatre Center. Associations: Resident Playwright at New Dramatists.
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Leigh Silverman
Director
Broadway: Lisa Kron’s Well. Off-Broadway credits include Liz Flahive’s From Up Here (Manhattan Theatre Club; Drama Desk nomination); David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face (co-production Center Theatre Group/The Public Theater); Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass Group and 37 Arts); Well (The Public Theater, The Huntington Theatre and ACT); Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Second Stage Theatre); Tanya Barfield’s Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons and Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Five Lesbian Brothers’ Oedipus At Palm Springs (New York Theatre Workshop); Eve Ensler’s The Treatment (The Culture Project); and Neena Beber’s Jump/Cut (Woolly Mammoth Theatre/ Theater J and Women’s Project). West End: Wit (Vaudeville Theatre). Other recent regional productions: Bad Dates (Cleveland Playhouse) and How I Learned to Drive (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Upcoming projects include the off-Broadway musical Coraline.
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Richard Hoover
Set Design
Broadway: Not About Nightingales (director - Trevor Nunn, Tony Award), After The Fall (director-Michael Mayer, roundabout Theatre). Off-Broadway: The Seven (director - Jo Bonney, La Jolla Theatre Company), Seven Guitars (director - Ruben Santiago Hudson, Second Stage), Speaking In Tongues, (director - Mark Clements, roundabout Theatre Company), The Thing About Men, (director - Mark Clements). Regional: Glass Menagerie, Death of a Salesman, Twelfth Night (director - Joe Dowling, Guthrie Theater), Diary of Ann Frank (director - Tina Landau, Steppenwolf Theatre, Tempest (director - Emily Mann, Mccarter Theater Co). Film: Henry Poole Is Here, (director - Mark Pellington, Lakeshore Entertainment), Soul Men, (director -Malcolm Lee, the Weinstein Company), The Mothman Prophesies, (director - Mark Pellington, Lakeshore Entertainment), Dead Man Walking (director - Tim Robbins, Walt Disney Company, Joe roth), Girl, Interrupted (director - Jim Mangold, Paramount), Twin Peaks (directors David Lynch and Mark Frost, ABC TV), Live From Baghdad (director - Mick Jackson, HBO Films).
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Sibyl Wickersheimer
Set Design
International Tour: 1984 (The Actors’ Gang, director – Tim Robbins). Misc: Toy Story The Musical (Disney Creative Entertainment/ Disney Cruise Lines, director – Stefan Novinski). Southern California: Some Girl(s) (Geffen Playhouse, director – Neil Labute); No Child, The Stones (Kirk Douglas), A Little Night Music, James & the Giant Peach, Charlotte’s Web (South Coast Repertory); Self Defense, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tartuffe, Blood! Love! Madness!, Drums in the Night, Women of Lockerbie, Carnage (The Actors’ Gang); Unfinished American Highwayscape #9 & #32 (Boston Court); Flu Season (Cal Rep); Evel Knievel:The Rock Opera (Bootleg) and many others. Regional: Black Diamond (Lookingglass Theatre), No Child (Berkeley Repertory); All in the Timing, How I Learned to Drive, Lobby Hero, The Syringa Tree (Sheridan Opera House, Telluride, CO); Pal Joey (Utah Musical Theatre). Awards: 2005-7 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers. www.sawgirl.com.
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Rachel Myers
Costume Design
Recent: A Little of More (Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center), Don Juan (A Noise Within), Dark Play (Theatre at Boston Court), Black Snow (Yale Rep). She has designed sets and costumes at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Falcon Theatre, Hudson Theatre, El Portal Theatre, The Renberg Village Theater, New Haven’s Festival of Arts and ideas, Disjecta Theatre Space, Circus Theatricals, The Yale School of Drama and Yale cabaret. Production Designer for film and commercial: Getty images, L’Oreal of Paris, Triskelion Entertainment and Art Department for Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride. Education: MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama and she lectures at California State University Channel Islands in Costume Design, Set Design and Drawing. Associations: Member of united Scenic Artists local 829. Website: www.3pennydesign.com.
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Lap Chi Chu
Lighting Design
New York: New York Theatre Workshop, Public Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, The Kitchen. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, San Jose Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Indiana Rep, Intiman Theatre. Awards: Winner of three Bay Area Theatre critics Awards and a “Drammy” for Best Lighting. Training: Northwestern University, New York University. Lighting Design Faculty: California Institute of the Arts.
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Adam Phalen
Sound Design
CTG – Kirk Douglas Theatre: The Paris Letter, Flight, Gaytino, Live From The Front, The Watts Towers Project,Taking Flight; Taper, Too: Circumference of a Squirrel; New Work Festival; 365 Days/365 Plays. Fountain Theatre: And Her Hair Went With Her. Lyric Theatre: A Piece of Tin. Bootleg Theatre: The 99 Cents Only Show, Media Noche. Shakespeare Santa Monica: Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello. Signature Theatre: The Word Begins. TV: Lalo Guerrero: Original Chicano. Other: resident Sound Designer for the Ojai Playwrights Conference and Groundwork Productions; Head of Audio at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre. 2006 NAACP Award, Best Sound Design, Flight. Website: Phalensoundinc.com.
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Jason H. Thompson
Projection Design
International/Regional: Rock of Ages (Flamingo Casino), Aerosmith Route of All Evil Tour (opening video montage), Stars on Ice 2006-07 and 2007-08 Tours, Buckminster Fuller (Rubicon Theatre), Palm Beach (director Des McAnuff, La Jolla Playhouse), Moses the Musical (Alvin Ailey Studios, NY), Finding Home (National Concert Hall, Taiwan and Vancouver, Canada). Geffen Playhouse: The God of Hell (director Jason Alexander), The Quality of Life (director Jane Anderson). other Los Angeles: Sunday in the Park with George (director Jason Alexander, reprise!), Best in Drag AIDS Benefit, The 2006 Ovation Awards, Evel Knievel the Rock Opera (Bootleg Theatre), C’Opera (Collage Dance Theatre Company), Access by Jerry Quickley and Flip the Game (CTG’s P.L.A.Y.), 12th Premise (Lillian Theatre). Associate Projection Design: Jersey Boys (Broadway and worldwide). Training: UC San Diego MFA in Design.
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Kathryn Bostic
Original Music
CTG: Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean (also on Broadway). Regional: Harlem (Kennedy center), Death and the King’s Horseman (Syracuse Stage), Little Women (Cornell University’s Schwartz Theater), The Ballad of Emmett Till (The Goodman Theatre), Emergency (Geffen Playhouse), center Stage, The Huntington, The Childrens Theatre, Seattle Rep. Awards: Sundance Fellowship for Filmscoring. Performing credits: Ronnie Scott’s (London), The Blue Note (Tokyo and Osaka), The Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Pori Finland Jazz Festival, cape May Jazz Festival and Birdland, JVC Jazz Festival N.Y., Catalina (Los Angeles), The Vic (Santa Monica). Toured and/or recorded with: K.D. Lang, Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Hiatt, Rod Stewart, The Manhattans, David Byrne.
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