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Emily Campbell Berezowsky - Director
Emily is completing her third and final year in the MFA Directing program, mentored by Anna Shapiro, Jessica Thebus, and Michael Rohd at Northwestern University. Prior to her arrival at NU, she worked as a freelance director based in New York City, most often through Elizabeth I. McCann productions, The Tony Awards, and The Public Theatre. She co-founded and produced productions as Patchwork Theatre Initiative in NYC. Upcoming Directing projects: Keith Reddin’s Life and Limb (Steppenwolf Garage NextUp Series). Recent Directing Credits: Edward Albee’s The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia?, and Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls at Northwestern. Additional directing credits: Vinegar Tom, Catch-86, 24 Years, The Rothko Room, and Lives of the Saints (Patchwork Theatre Initiative), The Book of Liz (Equinox Theatre). Assistant Directing: Sex with Strangers (d. Jessica Thebus), A Parallelogram (d. Anna D. Shapiro) at Steppenwolf Theatre, Yellowface (Public Theatre d. Leigh Silverman), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (National Tour/Kennedy Center d. Antony Page), Lizard Skin (NYC Fringe Festival d. Katherine Kovner), Yes, Virginia There is a Santa Claus (St, Croix Falls Festival Theatre d. Mark Baer). Emily is grateful to Lisa Kron, and her Broadway production WELL, on which she served as Lisa’s assistant. Additional Directing Training: La Mama ETC International Directing Symposium, Spoleto Italy 2003 and 2011. Emily worked for three seasons as the Associate Director of Events for The Tony Awards. She holds BA in Theatre Arts from Kalamazoo College.
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Adam Goldstein – Director
Adam is currently in his third and final year in the MFA Directing program at Northwestern University. Prior to his arrival at NU, Adam served as Artistic Associate of Bristol Riverside Theatre as well as the creator/director/producer of BRT’s America Rising: Voices of America new play program. Upcoming Directing projects: Emily Schwend’s South of Settling (Steppenwolf Garage). Recent Directing Credits: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and The Mistakes Madeline Made at Northwestern. Bridget Carpenter’s Up, Zakiyyah Alexander’s Sick?, Michael Elyanow’s Lullaby, Brett Neveu’s Harmless, and Quiara Allegria Hudes’ Elliot A Soldier’s Fugue in BRT’s America Rising staged reading series. Additional directing credits: Stinky Flowers and the Bad Banana (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Swimming in the Shallows, The Wheel: The Musical, Through The Valley, and Parade. Assistant Directing: Orlando (Court Theatre, d. Jessica Thebus), A Parallelogram (Anna D. Shapiro), and Detroit (Austin Pendleton) at Steppenwolf, I Am My Own Wife (Hartford Stage, Jeremy Cohen). Dialect credits include: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Secret Garden (mentor), Adam Bock’s Swimming in the Shallows, Frank McGuinness’ Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, among others. Adam has also served as Artistic Apprentice at Hartford Stage and began his professional career as the Musical Theatre Tracking Coordinator and an Agent’s Assistant at the William Morris Agency in New York. He holds BFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Laley Lippard – Director
Laley is currently a Chicago-based director with roots in Washington, DC and San Francisco. Her graduate work at Northwestern University includes MacBeth, The Cherry Orchard, directing showcase collaborations with MFA Playwrights including Ghost Girl by Sue Pak and Baby Story by Andy Miara, working with Belarus Free Theatre, as well as assisting Sean Graney and Dennis Zacek. Before NU, Lippard was lucky to live and work in San Francisco where she was an artistic associate at Magic Theatre, a company member of foolsFURY Theater, and involved in new play development serving on the literary/reading committees of Playwrights’ Foundation, Just Theatre, TheatreWorks and Magic Theatre. Directing credits include the world premiere of Matt Pelfrey’s Pure Shock Value (Killing My Lobster), Big Love (foolsFURY Theatre Company), Proof (Seaside Repertory Theatre), ‘ART’ (Seaside Repertory Theatre), and several workshops/readings at Magic Theatre. Assistant directing credits include Frank Galati (The March, Steppenwolf), Anna Shapiro (A Number, A.C.T.), Jessica Thebus (Orlando, Court), and Mark Rucker (Luminescence Dating, Magic). She is a recipient of an SDC Directing Observership Grant and a member of the 2009 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She collaborated with SITI Company at Saratoga Springs helping develop Who Do You Think You Are? She has served an artistic internship with Woolly Mammoth , a directing apprenticeship at Guthrie with Ethan McSweeny, a directing/dramaturgy internship at TheatreWorks and will soon be working at the American Voices New Play Institute with Polly Carl and David Dower. Currently, Lippard is adapting Antigone under the mentorship of Mary Zimmerman. This spring through Steppenwolf’s Next Up! Garage Series, she will be directing The Glass Menagerie.
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William Boles - Set Designer
William is a graduate of the University of Central Florida with a BFA in Scenic Design and is currently a third-year MFA candidate at Northwestern University. He has designed in Stockholm, Florida, Seattle, Pennsylvania, and Chicago. In 2008, William was awarded the National Design Award from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for his design of August Wilson's, 'The Piano Lesson', and has had his work featured in American Theater Magazine.
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Sally Dolembo - Costume Designer
Sally is a Chicago-based costume designer completing her MFA at Northwestern University. She is a 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar to Italy, where she studied at Tirelli Costumi in Rome, working in their shop and researching in the accompanying historical garment collection. Sally holds a BA in Design/Technical Theatre from Washington University in St. Louis. NU credits include Never the Sinner, The Little Prince, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Other Credits: Life and Limb and The Glass Menagerie (Steppenwolf Garage Theatre), Evita (Dunes Summer Theatre), Kokoschka: A Love Story, Bloody Poetry, Chopin’s The Awakening, and Kid Peculiar at the Coral Court Motel (Washington University in St. Louis).
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Kelsey Ettman - Costume Designer
Kelsey is a Chicago based freelance costume designer. She is currently completing her third year in Northwestern University's MFA Stage Design program. Upcoming Northwestern credits include “Spring Awakening” directed by Geoff Button and “The Bluest Eye” directed by Rives Collins. Previous NU costume design credits include, “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Secret Garden.” She has also been privileged to work as a costume assistant on several film projects including Surrogates and Louisa May Alcott: The Real Woman Who Wrote Little Women. She is a graduate of Tufts University.
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Rebecca Jeffords - Lighting Designer
Becca is a third year Lighting Designer at Northwestern University. Originally hailing from Georgia she received her BFA in Theatre Production and Design at Columbus State University. Following graduation she spent her time traveling and doing theatre across the country, including: The Utah Shakespearean Festival, The Alliance Theatre and The Academy Theatre in Georgia, and two seasons at The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre in Kalamazoo Michigan. While at Northwestern she has had the pleasure to design The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, and Brighton Beach Memoirsin addition to designing Two Pence Shakespeare's production of Romeo and Juliet. Her upcoming work may be seen later this year in the Theatre and Interpretation Center's productions of Spring Awakening and Twelfth Night. She will also be designing South of Settling and The Glass Menagerie at Steppenwolf Garage Theatre this spring.
beccajeffords.carbonmade.com
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William C. Kirkham - Lighting Designer
William is in his final year of the MFA Stage Design program at Northwestern University. Before being admitted to Northwestern, he worked for such companies and groups as Carnival Cruise Line, the Spoleto Festival USA, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, and as an Electrician on several national theatre tours. Recent designs include the world premiere of From Prague (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Hairspray! (Asst. Lighting Designer, Signature Theatre) Rent, Sean Graney’s Tartuffe, Spinning into Butter, The Cherry Orchard (Northwestern University). Upcoming projects include The Little Prince (Lighting Design) at Northwestern University, and Life and Limb (Lighting Design) in the Next UP series at the Steppenwolf Garage.
www.wckirkham.com
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Courtney O'Neill - Set Designer
Courtney is a Scenic Designer whose work has been seen in Chicago and across the Midwest. She recently exhibited at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial and her design of David Cromer's Our Town (The Hypocrites) was featured in Live Design magazine. Courtney is the recipient of a Jeff Award for Mud (The Hypocrites) and a Jeff Award Nomination for Talk Radio (The Gift Theatre). She has over fifty design credits, including Song Man Dance Man (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Oedipus (The Hypocrites), Sundown Town (TheatreSquared, Fayetteville, AR), Of Mice and Men (Steppenwolf Theatre), Jon (Collaboraction), The Young Ladies Of (About Face Theatre), Plaid Tidings (Fox Valley Repertory) and Katrina (Adventure Stage Chicago). At Northwestern she has designed The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Spinning into Butter, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Never the Sinner, The Little Prince and Life and Limb.
www.courtneyoneill.com
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Sarah Watkins - Set Designer
Sarah is a Chicago-based set designer, and is currently in her final year in the MFA Stage Design Program at Northwestern University. Design credits: The Secret Garden, The American Pilot, Mass (Northwestern University); Young Artists Program Showcase 2011 (The Music Theatre Company); The Rude Mechanicals (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre). Upcoming projects: Twelfth Night and The Glass Menagerie (Northwestern University), and South of Settling (Steppenwolf Garage Theatre). Her work was recently exhibited at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial in the Czech Republic. Sarah received her BA in Theatre (Set Design) and Art Studio (Painting). Sarah also works as a freelance photographer and fosters for animal rescue programs.
sarah-jhp-watkins.com
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