2007-08 DIRECTORS AND DESIGNERS

Jeff Adelberg Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Lighting Design for Macbeth, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus (nominated for an Elliot Norton award for design).  Other recent work includes Fat Pig for SpeakEasy Stage, Orson's Shadow for New Repertory Theatre, The Seagull for Concord Academy, Guys On Ice for Stoneham Theatre, Iolanthe for The Boston Conservatory, Stuff Happens for Zeitgeist Stage Company, Beehive for Ogunquit Playhouse.  Jeff attended the University of Connecticut and teaches lighting design at Boston College.

Anna-Alisa Belous Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Costume Design for Macbeth and Titus Andronicus. She is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, where she studied art and interior design and received her MFA from The Art and Design Academy as an interior textile designer. In 1991 she relocated to the USA and lived in the Seattle area where she worked as a hair/wig stylist, scenic painter and costume designer In 2001 she received her MFA in costume design from Brandeis University and moved to New York City. Since then, she has been working as a costume designer in theater, opera, dance and film.

Seth Bodie Actors’ Shakespeare Project: costume design for Henry V and The Tempest. Recent credits: Robert Brustein's The English Channel for Suffolk University, Valhalla for Zeitgeist Stage, Hillary and Monica for Gloucester Stage Company, King Of The Jews for Boston Playwrights Theatre, Zanna Don't!, Almost Maine and The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin for SpeakEasy Stage Company, Orpheus In The Underworld for New England Conservatory. Seth is an adjunct faculty member at Suffolk University, an honorary member of the National Theatre of Allston and is currently teaching at Boston Arts Academy in the theatre department. In his spare time, Seth works as a Hair and Makeup designer for everyone from opera divas to drag queens and works as a director and facilitator of children's shows.

Skip Curtiss Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Set Design for Henry V. Recent Credits include Dying City, Souvenir, A Number and Fully Committed for Lyric Stage Company; Gray City and Killing Game for the ART Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Additionally, Skip served as the Production Manager for the Lyric from 2002-2006. He has been involved in technical theater in Southern New England for over 5 years and has worked for a variety of regional theaters and educational institutions during that time, including the Goodspeed Opera House, the Hartford Stage Company, TheaterWorks of Hartford, CT and Brown University. He currently works as the Associate Production Manager for the Zero Arrow Theatre at ART. Since 2002, he has been a board member for StageSource, a service organization for theatre artists and producers in the greater Boston area.

Dewey Dellay Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Sound Design for Henry V. Off Broadway: Duet (Greenwich Street Theatre); London’s West End: The Countess (Criterion). Boston/Regional: Maiden’s Prayer (Huntington Theatre Company); Raftery’s Hill, Well of the Saints (The Súgán Theatre Company); Betrayal (Elliot Norton Award: Outstanding Production by a Small Resident Company), Van Gogh in Japan, Antigone, The Unexpected Man (Nora Theatre Company); Fully Committed (IRNE nomination: Best Sound Design). Dewey received an Elliot Norton award for his music and design on The Women (SpeakEasy Stage) 9 Parts of Desire, and Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage Company); and then an IRNE for best sound design on Five by Tenn (SpeakEasyStage Company). TELEVISION: Compositions for numerous national commercials including America Online, and music for America’s Spookiest Places, The Oprah Show, National Geographic's China's Mystery Mummies, Date Patrol, and Guiding Light. FILM: Composition for several small films including a documentary on the American Repertory Theatre.

David R. Gammons Actors' Shakespeare Project: Resident Designer; Scenic Design for The Tempest, Director and Scenic Design for Titus Andronicus and Scenic and Costume Design for King Lear. David is the 2007 Elliot Award Winner for Directing for Titus Andronicus. Other Boston area designs include Richard II, Becket Trio: Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, and Nacht und Traume (which toured to Strasbourg, France), and Spencer/Colton's Winter Circus at the American Repertory Theatre, as well as designs for SpeakEasy Stage, Coyote Theatre, and Theatre Offensive. Mr. Gammons is a graduate of the ART Institute's Director Program, where he directed productions of Twelfth Night, Marlowe's Edward II, Artaud's The Cenci, Genet's The Balcony, and Pinter's Party Time and The New World Order. Other directing projects include Macbeth for The Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre; a radical re-interpretation of The Winter's Tale for Pig Iron Theatre Company; Peter Brook's Conference of the Birds at Philadelphia's University of the Arts; and a new work called Raising Rapunzel for Vermont's Phantom Theatre. He is the founder and artistic coordinator of No More Masterpieces, a performance collective dedicated to generating original dance-theatre work, and conceived and directed their world-premiere productions Spanking the Maid, A Crying of Bones, and Heaven's Sake. Other original dance-theatre works include Teen Tragedy Trilogy for Headlong Dance Theatre and Exquisite Corpses for Lorraine Chapman: The Company. Mr. Gammons is currently the Director of the Theatre Program at Concord Academy, where he teaches courses in acting, directing, playwriting and design, and directs a company devoted to developing original experimental work for the stage. At Concord he has directed plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pirandello, and Brecht, and has conceived and directed the world-premiere productions Beauty Sleeping, Sea of Troubles, LHOOQ, When I look up to the sky I get a scary feeling, Tyger/Tiger, and the forthcoming Double Negative.

Sarah Hickler Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Tempest (Movement Design and Choreography)Macbeth (movement design), The Winter's Tale (choreography), Love's Labour’s Lost (gender movement coaching). A performer, director, choreographer and movement specialist, and former member of Mobius (Boston), Hickler has collaborated with theater, dance, performance and media artists from the U.S. and abroad. Her physical theater work has been produced in festivals, theaters and museums throughout New England, at Austen Art Center in Hartford, and Lincoln Center Festival in NYC. She performs regularly with the East Coast and International Action Theater Ensembles, has choreographed for university and professional productions in Boston, Arizona, Los Angelesand NYC, and has directed critically acclaimed productions for the Los Angeles Women's, Sedona and Sun Valley Shakespeare Companies. She is on the faculty of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox and Emerson College in Boston.

Elizabeth Locke Actors' Shakespeare Proeject: Resident Props Master, including properties design for Macbeth, Love's Labours Lost, Titus Andronicus, The Winter's Tale, Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, and Richard III. Local credits include stage management for Christmas Revels, Summer Revels, RiverSing, and Noye's Fludde; production assistance for Dressed Up!/Wigged Out!

Adrianne Krstansky Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Director of Macbeth. She recently directed the New England premiere of Thom Pain (based on nothing) at the New Repertory Theatre.  She directed Scenes From an Execution, Agamemnon and His Daughters, The Trojan Women: A Love Story and The Three Sisters for the Brandeis Theater Company as well as appearing as Agave in The Bacchae.  Performing credits include Britannicus and Ubu Rock at the American Repertory Theater and the New England premieres of Frozen, Closer, Bug, and Snakebit at the New Repertory Theater, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Boston Theater Works and SpeakEasy Stage Company respectively, and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Vineyard Playhouse.  She worked extensively in Chicago theaters such as the Steppenwolf Theater (A Clockwork Orange, Twelfth Night), Bailiwick Repertory, Goodman Theater and The Touchstone Theater.  Regional credits include performances at the LaJolla Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville, Telluride Repertory Theater, and Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company and The Public Theater.  She is an Assistant Professor of Theater at Brandeis University and holds an MFA from the University of California, San Diego’s professional actor training program.

John R. Malinowski Actors' Shakespeare Project: lighting design for King John, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. 2007-08 projects include: Streetcar Named Desire (New Repertory Theatre), Angels in America (both parts) and The Crucible (Boston Theatre Works), and the world premiere of Robert Brustein's The English Channel  (Suffolk University and Vineyard Playhouse). Since 1985 he has designed lighting for over 150 productions in New England. His work has also been seen in New York City, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee, where he received a Tennessean Award for his light design for Cyrano de Bergerac at Tennessee Repertory Theatre. He has received 3 IRNE Awards, most recently for lighting Kiss of the Spiderwoman (SpeakEasy Stage Company), and in 1996 he received an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Lighting. He was a NEA/TCG Design Fellow from 2000-2002.  In Spring 2008 he will be on the faculty of Suffolk University's Theater Department.

Eric McDonald Actors' Shakespeare Project: Music Director for The Tempest.   Eric is excited to make his ASP debut. Past stage experience includes Christmas and Summer Revels, Puddlejump Players, and Magic Circle Theater. Currently a student at Berklee College of Music, Eric has been playing guitar and mandolin around town for years with groups including Jaded Mandolin, Matching Orange, Orion Longsword, Defenestrated, and Thor's Rhapsody. He's appeared at Club Passim, First Night Boston, Nameless Coffeehouse, New England Folk Festival, Me & Thee Coffeehouse, and countless area clubs.

Susan Zeeman Rogers Actors’ Shakespeare Project: scenic design for Macbeth. Her movement-based scenic designs grew from 20 years’ experience as a visual artist. In 2000, Susan was awarded an NEA/TCG Career Development Fellowship in Design.  Since moving to New York from Boston, Susan has designed Innocents, adapted from Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth, and Betrothed, both by Rachel Dickstein for Ripe Time; Sawdust Palace for Susan Marshall and Co.; Mercy on the Doorstep by Gip Hoppe, directed by Jim Simpson at the Flea Theatre; Lebensraum by Israel Horowitz, El Paso Blue by Octavio Solis,  Wet by Liz Duffy Adams,  LobsterFace by Magdalena Gomez,  Disappearing Acts, Mabou Mines,  and The Right Way to Sue, directed by Annie Kauffman.  She has served as a design consultant for playwrights at New Dramatists and was a 2006 designer for the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.  Her work in Boston includes:Nixon in China, Opera Boston;N by Laura Harrington, Pilgrim Theatre; Dressed Up!/Wigged Out! by Paula Plum and Leslie Dillen;Boy Gets Girl, Merrimack Repertory Theatre; Henry V, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.; Anna in the Tropics, SpeakEasy Stage Company; On Raftery’s Hill, Sugan Theatre Co; Bug, Boston Theatre Works and Mayhem, A.R.T. Institute at Zero Arrow.  Other work includes The Importance of Being Earnest, Contemporary American Theatre and Phoebe’s Got Three Sisters, adapted and directed by Marcus Stern, Moscow Art Theatre School.  Upcoming work includes the world premier of The Ghost’s Bargain for Two River Theatre Co.

Normi Noel Actors’ Shakespeare Project: director for Henry V. She has directed The Sea Horse with the Nora Theatre in Boston, and over the years, Hamlet, Virginnia, All's Well That Ends Well, Off the Map, Betrayal, Jack and Jill, Enchanted April, and others at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox MA.  She has worked with war veterans, and developed a play inspired by Penny Rock, an Army Nurse in Vietnam, called No Background Music, which she performed for the Independent Voices Festival in London last year, and which also won the Sony Award for best radio drama in the UK, performed by Sigourney Weaver for the BBC.

Steven Rosen Actors’ Shakespeare Project: lighting design for Henry V. He has been designing lighting in and around Boston for many years. Some of the companies he has worked with include: New Repertory Theatre, The Nora, North Shore Music Theater, Jewish Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Boston Early Music Festival, Charles Playhouse, Chamber Theater Productions, Wheelock Family Theater, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and The Foothills Theater Company. Mr. Rosen is in his 16th season working for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. When not lighting the stage, he is the principal designer at Available Light, a New England-based design firm specializing in museum, architectural and corporate communications lighting.

Charles Schoonmaker  Actors’ Shakespeare Project:  Costume Design for King John. Costume designer with over 25 years of experience in dance, theatre and television. He is the recipient of four Daytime Emmy Awards. He has designed for the Limon Company, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Richmond Ballet, the Nashville Ballet, and the Atlanta Ballet, as well as serving for seven seasons as the resident costume designer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Theatre work includes productions at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Union Square Theatre, the Henry Street Settlement, and the Billie Holiday Theatre in New York City. Regional productions include Ladies and Gentlemen Miss Judy Garland at The Lyric Stage, The Winter’s Tale at Actors’ Shakespeare Project, The Clean House, Pinter Duets, White People at the New Rep, and On the 20th Century for Overture Productions all in the Boston area; The Greeks at Southern Methodist University in Dallas (where he also served as a guest lecturer); and Chicago at the Riverside Theatre in Florida. Television credits include Another World, All My Children, and As The World Turns. Charles teaches costume design at Brandeis University and holds an MFA from New York University.

Dawn M. Simmons Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Assistant Director for Macbeth. Recent directing credits include Dancing with the Jihad for Boston Theatre Works’ Unbound festival and the Boston premier of The Moon Away by Edward Crosby Wells for AYTB Theatre. Dawn also served as assistant director for the world premier of the 2007 Jonathan Larson Award winner Surviving The Nian by area writer Melissa Li.   She has worked with The Theater Offensive, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Boston Theatre Works, and New Repertory Theatre. She is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo with a degree in English Literature, studied playwriting at Boston University and currently works as Programs and Marketing Manager for StageSource.

Patrick Swanson Actors’ Shakespeare Project: director of The Tempest and King Lear (nominated for three 2006 Elliot Norton awards). He began theater work in London as an actor at the Arts Theatre in the West End. In 1969 he toured Europe with La MaMa Plexus and subsequently got his world theater education from Ellen Stewart at La MaMa E.T.C. His numerous directing projects have included opera, ensemble and music theater, and he was a founding director of the nationally touring Circus Flora. Mr. Swanson taught acting and improvisation at the London Academy of Dramatic Art (L.A.M.D.A.), the London Drama Centre, and New York University. He served as artistic director of the Castle Hill Festival at Castle Hill in Ipswich, Massachusetts, producing opera and theater works including the premieres of Julie Taymor's Liberty's Taken and Peter Sellars’ Cosi fan Tutte. Directing credits include: Tristan and Iseult with the Boston Camerata at the Spoleto USA festival, Shirley Valentine at Shakespeare & Company, Houston's Alley Theatre and Boston's Charles Playhouse, Happy Days, The Caretaker, and two stage premieres at Gloucester Stage Company: Talking Heads by Alan Bennett and Fighting Over Beverly by Israel Horowitz. For Revels Mr. Swanson has directed The Mysteries, a contemporary version of medieval mystery plays, co-produced by Revels and Shakespeare & Company, and Britten's opera Noye's Fludde. Mr. Swanson writes and directs Revels scripts, and with music director George Emlen, serves as consultant to nine Revels cities around the country.

Cameron Willard Actors’ Shakespeare Project: sound design for King John, Titus Andronicus, and Measure for Measure. Other credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello (Boston Theatre Works); True West (New Repertory Theatre)

David Wilson Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Sound designer for Macbeth. David has designed lighting or sound for over 300 productions of opera, theater, concert and dance. He spent six years as Resident Lighting Designer at Colorado’s Central City Opera, and is in his 23rd year as Artist in Residence in Lighting and Sound at Brandeis University where he heads the graduate program in Sound Design. Recent Brandeis Theater Company credits include sound design for The Waiting Room, Big Love, King Lear, and the world premiere of Two Orphans. Other area productions include sound design for Gizmo Love at W.H.A.T.; The Nora Theater Company’s A Dublin Carol (sound and lighting design); Stoneham Theater’s George M. Cohan Tonight! (lighting design) I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda, Seven Rabbits on a Pole, The Sweepers and A Prayer for Owen Meany (sound design); New Repertory Theatre's Scotland Road, Drifting Elegant,Jack and Jill and Blue Window (sound design), The Scarlet Letter (music and sound design), and Sylvia (lighting design).