Designers

John Beckman (producer, designer)

world-premiere exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius (Chicago Museum of Science & Industry), Hard Scrambled (Visions & Voices in Chicago), Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, Chicago Scenic Studios, Inc., Founder: Visions & Voices Theatre Company in Chicago

Joan Halpert (costume designer)

Chamber Repertory Theatre, Boston; Lyric Stage, Boston; the Theatre Connection, Quincy; Tufts University's Magic Circle Children's Theatre; and the Roundhouse Theatre, Manchester, VT, American Place Theatre, Playwright's Horizon, The Costume Collection, Ray Diffen Stage Clothes, The Muppets, Inc., Publick Theatre, Stonehill College, Jersey State College, Graham Junior College, Boston University and Williams College.

Ben Kato (Lighting Designer)

Regional, Off-Broadway, OOB, Broadway asst.

Rachael Keebler (Scenic artist, Designer, Educator)

Founder of Cobolt Studios, Member of USA 829, North Carolina School for the Arts, Temple University, University of Michagan, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Nolan's, Sander-Gossards, Showtech, Scaena Studios, and Scenic Arts Studios, Doonesbury, the Real Thing, Baby, La Cage Aux Folles, 9 1/2 Weeks, Chaplin and K2, Miami Nutcracker, the Chicago Tribune Nutcracker, Tokyo Einstein on the Beach, State Fair, 13 years of Hasty Pudding, Baryshnikov Productions and Twyla Tharp, Manhattan School of Music operas.

Ellen Kurrelmeyer (Designer and educator)

MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Sweethearts (Off broadway), Castleton College

Amanda Maddock Weinstein (theatre and television puppeteer)

St. Ann's Puppet Labapalooza, the O'Neill Puppetry Conference, Sandglass Theatre's Puppetry in the Green Mountains Festival, the Henson International Puppetry Festival, and at the Henson Carriage House Puppetry Series. Recently received funding from the Henson Foundation to continue work on a new puppetry project. She has built puppets for Crank Yankers, SNL, and Avenue Q. TV performing credits include: The Book of Pooh, Bear in the Big Blue House, Between the Lions, and Nickelodeon's Lazytown. Designer of costumes, puppets and masks for Fovea Floods.

Zöe Morsette (stage, film, TV craftsperson)

Beauty and the Beast, The Grinch, Radio City Music Hall

Beba Shamash (Broadway, Off-Broadway costume designer)

The Most Happy Fella, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Kirstin Tobiasson (Off-Off-Broadway costume designer)

Pastoralia, What’s That On My HEAD?!? (NTUSA)

Melissa Wayne (costume designer)

Art Director, Stylist, and Costumer for Primitive World Productions, a Philadelphia film and video production company; other recent design credits include Wonder Shozen for MVT2, American Family Theatre in Philadelphia, and University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Melissa also constructs theatrical soft goods for various theaters and companies; faculty member and artist-in-residence at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where she teaches Costume Design for Dance and Dance Appreciation while also designing costumes for the Dance Department.

David Yergan (Lighting Designer, Production Manager)

Capital Repertory Company, Lake George Opera, Penn & Teller, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company