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Susan Hamburger - Lighting Designer

Susan Hamburger is a New York City based Lighting Designer. She has worked extensively in live theater with such notable artists as Craig Harris, Lucinda Childs, Shirin Neshat, Philip Glass, Mark Rucker, and numerous dance companies including the Bessie Award winning Urban Bush Women and Bessie winner Nora Chipaumire. Other notable dance companies include Troika Ranch, Blondell Cummings, Urban Tap, Ellis Wood, Alice Farley, Chrisopher Caines, Susan Chirniak, Carol Nolte and David Parker and The Bang Group among others. She has also designed The Abundance Project, Hamletmachine, Logic of the Birds, On The Verge, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Little Shop Of Horrors, Suddenly Last Summer, The Great Highway, West Side Story, The Cryptogram, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Waiting for Godot and Mame, as well as many other original plays and performance pieces.

Susan Hamburger has also expanded into architectural and residential/commercial lighting design.  Recent projects include a retail children’s clothing store, a physical therapy studio and an extensive remodeling of a Greenwich Village brownstone.  Upcoming residential/commercial projects include a Soho Corporate Office,  Tribecca loft and flexible use television interview studio for a New York not-for profit. Susan is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, and teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Dance department. www.susanhamburger.com

 

 

Matthew Richards - Lighting Designer

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Spring arts preview profile: Michael Schweikardt

View Profile of Michael Schweikardt - Set Designer for the Sarasota Opera from Sarasota's Creative Loafing online magazine.

Alejo Vietti, Costume Designer

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Stephen Strawbridge, Lighting Designer

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Les Dickert, Lighting Designer

In 1997, after graduating from the University of South Carolina and then the Yale School of Drama, I moved to New York. In the following few years, I assisted my mentor Jennifer Tipton while pursuing my interests in theater. 1998 I began touring with White Oak Dance Project, first as a lighting supervisor and later as a designer. During that time, I had the opportunity to design world premieres by choreographers such as Mark Morris, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Lucinda Childs, and Richard Move, most featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov, the company’s artistic director. At the same time, I continued my work in the theater, working with emerging New York companies and regional theaters. By 2002 I no longer had time to juggle so many projects, and I made the difficult decision to stop touring and assisting, so that I could devote my full attention to creating original work.

 

Since then, I have collaborated with a diverse range of directors and choreographers, spanning the downtown New York theater scene, American regional theaters, and international ballet companies. My love of light grows stronger each year, as does my love of travel (although not my love of most airlines.) I believe in the importance of the cultural exchange of theater, which feeds my interest in the international language of dance. I am also interested in blurring the lines of established performance genres, and in incorporating new visual media, such as video. My other interests include running (I ran the Amsterdam marathon in 2006; I plan to run NYC’s in 2008), photography, vegan cuisine, and the effects of natural light on human emotions. I still live in New York, which remains my favorite city in the world.

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Angelina Avallone, Make-up and Costume Designer

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Joel Moritz - Lighting Design

Joel Moritz lighting design. (Click on image for larger view)

Joel Moritz - Lighting Designer

Joel Mortiz's award-winning work has been seen in theatres around the world. Current design projects include: Blue Man Group Tokyo; "Star Wars" Exhibit at the Museum of Science & Industry; Our Town (dir. Aaron Posner) at Two River Theatre Company in New Jersey. He is the Lighting Designer for Blue Man Group (Universal Studios Orlando, Amsterdam, Germany). Recent New York/ Off Broadway work includes Tatjana in Color (Culture Project), wAve (Ma-Yi Theatre Co.), Just as If (Off-Broadway), Lion in the Streets (29th Street Rep), The Tempest, Elliot a Soldiers Fugue, Phedre (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis) at the Fisher Center, and King Stag (dir. Andrei Belgrader) at Juilliard. Regional theatre and opera include: Shakespeare Theatre--BeauxStratagem (dir. Michael Kahn); Arena Stage--Passion Play, Cabaret (dir. Molly Smith); Rep. Theater of St Louis--Bee-Luther Hatchee; Chicago Opera Theatre--Semele, Rape of Lucretia; Court Theatre--Virginia Woolfe, The Dead, Phedre, The Chairs; Goodman Theater--28 (with Lookingglass Theatre); Steppenwolf--Disappeared, Her Name Was Danger, House on Mango Street; other companies include: Kansas City Rep, Meadowbrook Theatre, Theatre Alliance, six productions with About Face Theatre including Eleven Rooms of Proust (Mary Zimmerman). Joel's work has earned several Joseph Jefferson Awards and Nominations.Television/Film: "America's Got Talent" ABC Studios Blue Man Group Guest Appearance; SummerSonic Live Televised Concert, Blue Man Group Tokyo;lighting and DP on shoots for several documentary films. International: Blue Man Group, Lugano Switzerland; Traverse Theatre, Assembly Theater in Edinburgh and productions in Buenos Aires, Lima, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, Prague, and Cairo. In his spare time, Joel is an avid snowboarder, designs and builds furniture and experiments with photography.

 

Angelina Avallone - My Three Broadway Monsters

Great story written by Angelnia on Broadway.com titled "My Three Broadway Monters" with photos of Angelina's three current Broadway shows:

Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein scheduled to open November 8, 2007.

Ursula in The Little Mermaid scheduled to open December 6, 2007.

  The Grinch in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! opening November 9, 2007.