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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.

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

Angelina Avallone Resume (Posted October 2008)

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.

Maya Ciarrocchi - Projection Designer

Maya Ciarrocchi has announce her upcoming exhibition at Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th St. NYC. Here's a sneak peak:

Maya Ciarrocchi has created a disorienting experience of urban proportions through her three channel video installation, Wasteland. Influenced by T.S. Elliot’s epic poem and using classic shots of New York City icons, including views of Times Square, the Hudson River, and the beach, Maya creates inverted images where water becomes sky, cityscapes become cloud formations, and pedestrians on the beach become suspended behemoths.

The opening reception is Saturday September 15th from 4:30-6:30pm.

Matthew Richards Resume

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David Russell, Costume Designer

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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