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A Discussion: Designers and Directors, September 29, 2014, League Of Professional Theatre Women's Quarterly Networking Mondays!
Monday, September 29, 2014, 6-8 PM
A Discussion: Designers and Directors
Panelists:
Carrie Robbins
Costume Designer
Jo Bonney
Theatre Director
Rachel Hauck
Set Designer
Elisheba Ittoop
Sound Designer
Christina Watanabe
Lighting Designer
Shigeko Suga
Movement/Choreography
Moderators: Richarda Abrams and Romy Nordlinger
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Event Held Monday, September 29, 2014, 6-8 PM at:
TheaterLab
357 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor
(Between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue)
New York, NY 10018
Non-Members: $15
For more Information: 1-800-838-3006
Brought to you by your LPTW Networking Committee:
Richarda Abrams and Romy Nordlinger, Co-Chairs
Ivy Austin, Jill DuBoff, Victoria Hale, Dorothy Leeds, Frances McGarry, Wendy Peace, June Rachelson-Ospa, Cynthia Robinson, Rachel Sussman, Noemi de la Puente, Mary McGinley, Amy Lee Pearsall, Ginger Grace, Katie McHugh, Leila Martin, Rosemary Camas and Amie Sponza.
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Panelists Bios:
CARRIE ROBBINS (Costume Designer)
Over 30 BROADWAY shows including Class Act (Sarah Ramirez),Grease (Travolta), Agnes of God (Plummer/Page), Yentl (Feldshuh), Sweet Bird of Youth (Bacall), Frankenstein (Wiest), Happy End (Streep), BoysOfWinter (Dillan/Snipes), Cyrano (Langella). AWARDS: Robbins received TDF's "2012-LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" for CostumeDesign. 2 'Tony' Noms, 5 DramaDesk Awards & nom., Maharam, 3 USITT/Prague International, Hughes noms., F.I.T-Surface Design, Audelco. She designed at ArenaStage & Glimmerglass for dir. Tazewell Thompson, Gershwin musical American in Paris (Alley), Samson et Dalila (S.F.Opera), many others. Known for her drawing skill, Robbins' work appears in "Time-Life Series/Collectibles" and "Costume Design, Techniques of Modern Masters" (Watson-Guptil). A MONOGRAPH on Robbins' designs (USITT/B'way Press) is available at DramaBookShop or Amazon.com. Her "New Nutcracker" can be seen Christmastime at Cinn. Ballet as can her Drama Desk-nominated designs for the Gershwin musical White Christmas, dir. Walter Bobbie (USA & England).
As a playwright, 2 new short plays by Robbins (SAWBONES & THE DIAMOND EATER) were chosen to be presented in 2013 at TACT-TheActorsCompanyTheatre, NYC & appeared in full production in May/June of this year at the HERE Arts Center. The production received SIX nominations for the NYITAwards, New York Innovative Theatre Awards, for off-OFF-B'way.
[Robbins also co-curated the exhibit "Curtain Call- Celebration of a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance" sponsored by LPTW & NYPL at LC. A densely illustrated catalog is still available at the Library's desk and through LPTW.]
JO BONNEY (Director)
Premieres of plays by: Alan Ball, Eric Bogosian, Culture Clash, Eve Ensler, Jessica Goldberg, Danny Hoch, Neil LaBute, Warren Leight, Lynn Nottage, Dael Orlandersmith, Suzan-Lori Parks, Darci Picoult, Will Power, David Rabe, Jose Rivera, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Christopher Shinn, Diana Son, Universes, Naomi Wallace, Michael Weller.
Productions of plays by: Caryl Churchill, Nilo Cruz, Anna Deavere Smith, Charles Fuller, Lisa Loomer, John Osborne, John Pollono, Lanford Wilson
Theaters: PS 122, The Public Theater NYC, NYTW, Second Stage, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, MCC, Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown Festival, McCarter Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Arena Stage, CTG, Signature, Long Wharf, The New Group, CSC, Humana Festival, Almeida Theatre, London, Edinburgh Festival, The Market Theatre, Johannesburg, Baxter Theatre, Cape Town SA, Cine 13, Paris.
Recipient of 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Direction, Lucille Lortel Best Musical and Lucille Lortel Best Revival. Drama Desk nomination for directing. Editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG).
RACHEL HAUCK (Set Designer)
Rachel Hauck is a New York based set designer. Recent NY credits include And I And Silence (Signature); To The Bone (Cherry Lane); Patron Saint of Sea Monsters, The Call, Go Back To Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons); Family Furniture (Flea); Stay (Rattlestick), The Tutors (2nd Stage Uptown); An Iliad (NYTW, McCarter, BRT, LJP, SRT, International Tour); Slowgirl (LCT3), Harper Regan, Bluebird (Atlantic); Regrets (MTC); This Wide Night (Naked Angels, Lortel Nom); Orange, Hat and Grace (Soho Rep, Drama Desk Nom); Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass, 37 Arts); Fever Chart, Poor Itch (Public). Recent Regional work includes: Into The Woods (OSF); Assassins, Imaginary Invalid (Playmakers Rep); Clybourne Park, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Guthrie) as well as work at the McCarter Theater, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage and the Shakespeare Theater among others.
Rachel has been the resident set designer at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference since 2005. She was an NEA/TCG design fellow, received the Princess Grace Award, and was the recipient of a Lilly Award for sustained excellence in design.
JANIE BULLARD (Sound Designer)
Janie is an NYC based sound designer. Upcoming Work: Janice Underwater at Premiere Stages and I See You at The Flea. Recent Work: Phoenix, A Fable, and Scarcity (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre at the Cherry Lane) Carnival Kids (Lesser America at TBG Theatre) Jane the Plain, Sans Merci and Honey Fist (Flux Theatre Ensemble) Stockholm (One Year Lease at 59e59) The Gin Baby (Kid Brooklyn and Mermaid Sand) The Cottage (APAC) Slipping (Rattlestick in LA) Headstrong (Ensemble Studio Theatre) Yosemite, The Wood, underneathmybed (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre) Janie was the recipient of the USITT/LDI Rising Star Award for 2014, and was named an Indie Theatre Person of the Year for 2013. She also received 3 Best Sound Design nominations for the 2014 NYIT awards. Janie received her MFA in Theatre Sound Design from the North Carolina School of the Arts. www.janiebullard.com
CHRISTINA WATANABE (Lighting Designer)
Christina's lighting designs have been seen at multiple venues in and around NYC including The Public Theatre (Under the Radar), The Bushwick Starr, The Brick, Theatre for the New City, and The Living Theatre. Christina has designed and mentored at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (Macbeth, Violet) and with the Yale Dramatic Association (A Midsummer Night's Dream). Other design work includes Phaedra's Cabaret, story(us), and Ralph Lauren's Madison Avenue windows. As a lighting supervisor, Christina has toured internationally with Shen Wei Dance Arts, domestically with Jonah Bokaer, and regionally with So Percussion. Christina also served as a lighting coordinator for Alice Tully Hall as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. MFA: NYU Tisch. For more information and to see images of past productions, please visit www.StarryEyedLighting.com.
SHIGEKO SUGA (Movement/Choreography)
Shigeko has recently appeared as Yojo (Witch) I in SHOGUN MACBETH with Pan Asian Rep where she is a senior artist member of the company and has worked in Pan Asian Rep's, SHOGUN MACBETH, KWATZ, SONG OF SHIM CHUNG, MOM AND DAD, I AM DATING A WHITE GIRL, RASHOMON. She has also worked in the New York theatrical scenes since 1986 in the wide range of discipline including; acting, directing, choreography, Flamenco, African drumming, various ethnic chanting and in the vocal experimentation. Her stage credits include; DAPHNE DOES DIM SUM as Daphne with Centenary Stage Company, DIONYSUS FILIUS DEI as Cybele and MYTHOS OEDIPUS as Hera for Ellen Stewart's Great Jones Rep. & Umbria International, TROJAN WOMEN as Hecuba for Andrei Serban's Greek Trilogy, and over 120 local & Int'l theatre productions in the last 22 years since arriving in NYC, working with such companies as; Yara Arts Group in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Theatre Dionysus, The Skysaver Productions of Theodora Skippatares, Los Danzantes, Muna Tseng Dance Project, etc. Her directing credits include; THE MAIDS at The Kitchen Space/NY and at TOLLWOOD FESTIVAL in Munich/Germany, LE BALCON, SHIKU HAKKU THE EIGHT SUFFERINGS, SEGUIRIYA, THE HEART BEATS and ACCADDE DOMANI at La MaMa, SOTOBA KOMACHI, TEATRO FLAMENCO Y BUTOH at La MaMa and at Ex Convento de Santa Teresa de La Antigua in Mexico City, HEDDA GABLER as a presentation following "Shigeko Suga" workshop by Pan Asian Rep., 10 SECONDS OF MY FAME at St. Clement's Theatre,LEIR REX (KING LEAR) co-directing with Mr. Ernest Abuba by Shout Production and New York Performance Alliance.
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