Updated Resume
Updated Resume
HOPPING FOR INSPIRATION An African market in Harlem provided fabric and ideas for Marina Draghici, a set and costume designer. Two of her recent projects include the Broadway play “Fela!” and the movie “Precious.” More Photos >
Published: December 16, 2009
IF you plan on conjuring up a 1970s dance club in Lagos, Nigeria, on Broadway, a fine place to start is a patch of Africa tucked along a Harlem cross street. Through a cheap pastel archway on West 116th Street stands the Malcolm Shabazz Market, better known as the African market. Read the article New York Times Article, Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Angelina Avallone Resume (Posted October 2008)
C. David Russell
Head of Costume Crafts Technology Program
Instructor of Costume Design, Ohio University School of Theater
Mr. Russell's varied career includes costume and scenic design, costume and property crafts, and event design and project management. He has been an instructor of costume design and crafts at Ohio University since 2003.
His recent design work includes costumes for Julius Caesar and Tempest at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey and costumes for Lobby Hero at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. He was also responsible for the costumes, puppets and scenic designs for The Enchantment Theatre Company of Philadelphia's Pinocchio, as well as The Firebird, which toured with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland and Seattle Symphonies.
Mr. Russell has designed for Theater Works in Hartford, Connecticut, Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts, The Professional Theater Training Program at the University of Delaware, Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, Williamstown Theater Festival, New York, and in New York City at New York University, Off Broadway Cap 21, and Lincoln Center.
His event design and project management experiences in New York City include the International Toy Fair, Little Golden Books at the U.S. Open Tennis Center, and Save the Children, at Chelsea Piers.
Mr. Russell is the Master Craftsperson of Props at The Santa Fe Opera, where he has been a staff member since 1992. He has also worked as a craftsperson for Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey and Arena Stage in Washington D.C.
C. David Russell received an MFA in Costume and Scenic Design from New York University TISCH School for the Arts.
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Sandra Goldmark has designed scenery and/or costumes for numerous productions in New York and regionally.
Recent work includes set designs with the award-winning company Transport Group in their 2006-2007 reinterpretations of American classics The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Inge and All the Way Home by Tad Mosel, both directed by Jack Cummings III. She also designed the New York premiere of Quiara Hudes' Pulitzer-nominated play, Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, directed by Davis McCallum (2006). Other designs includes The Pillowman at George Street Playhouse, directed by Will Frears (2006), Gagarin Way with the Sugan Theatre Company in Boston, directed by Brendan Hughes (2005), The American Occupation at The Juilliard School, directed by Trip Cullman (2004), and The Mystery Plays, a Yale Rep/Second Stage co-production, directed by Connie Grappo.
In the fall of 2007, Sandra will serve as Artistic Director the Barnard College and Columbia School of the Art’s production of 2 weeks of Suzan Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays. In the coming year she will also design two new musicals with Transport Group: Crossing Brooklyn by Jenny Giering and Laura Harrington, and The Diner Story by Nancy Shayne and Michael Patrick King. Sandra is currently designing the set for a spoof television morning show called Today NOW!, produced by The Onion for release on the internet this fall.
Sandra holds an M.F.A. in design from Yale School of Drama and a B.A. in American History and Literature from Harvard University. She is a Lecturer with the Barnard College Department of Theatre, and lives in New York with her husband, Michael Banta.
Christianne Myers is currently a faculty member at the University of Michigan, where she has had the opportunity to design many shows, most recently, The Cradle Will Rock with guest director Robert Benedetti, She Stoops to Conquer and the world premiere of two one-act operas by James P. Johnson, The Dreamy Kid and DeOrganizer. Since moving to Michigan, she has designed several plays at Jeff Daniel's Purple Rose Theatre including, Sea of Fools, Honus & Me, Leaving Iowa, Norma and Wanda, and Duck Hunter Shoots Angel. Both Norma and Wanda and Duck Hunter were since moved to Detroit for a commercial run. Recently, she designed I Do, I Do at Indiana Rep. and Macbeth at The Juilliard School. In New York, her favorite shows include the Obie award-winning productions of Music Theatre Group’s Pulitzer-nominated Running Man and Blue Light Theatre’s production of Dare Clubb’s Oedipus with Frances McDormand and Billy Crudup and Zibaldone directed by Christopher Bayes. Other New York and regional credits include work with Syracuse Stage Co., The Clarence Brown Theatre, The Lincoln Center Institute, The Irondale Ensemble, Theatreworks/USA, The Acting Co., NY City Opera Education, The Ma-Yi Ensemble, and more than a dozen productions for The Juilliard School. She has also designed several feature and short length independent films including Chiara Edmunds’ award-winning The Office Party, starring Ralph Macchio, Carol Kane and Jon Stewart. Christianne has a Master of Fine Arts in Costume Design from New York University and has happily settled in Ann Arbor after fourteen crazy years in the Big Apple.
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