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SITI Thought Center - A New Culture of Theater Design
Thought Center is a chance to gather questions and wisdom from a diverse range of perspectives, building avenues for exchange and collaboration across multiple generations and levels of experience.
Join SITI Company's resident designers James Schuette and Darron West as we host an open conversation with an intergenerational group of designers to discuss questions of race & gender and how these dynamics help the culture and aesthetics of theater design evolve.
--Featured Guests--
Dina El-Aziz, costume designer
Alejandro Fajardo, lighting designer
Beth Goldenberg, costume designer
Beth Lake, sound designer
Porsche McGovern, lighting designer
--GUEST BIOGRAPHIES--
DINA EL-AZIZ (Costume Design) has designed regional productions of Noura (The Old Globe) Yasminas Necklace (Premiere Stages), Selling Kabul (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Weve Come to Believe, The Corpse Washer, and How to Defend Yourself (Actors Theatre of Louisville/43rd Humana Festival), and Heartland (Geva Theatre Center). Her Off Broadway credits include Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Hypokrit Theatre Company for New York Theatre Workshops Next Door), The Russian and The Jew (Anna & Kitty, Inc./The Tank), I Thought I Would Die but I Didnt (The Tank), Dead Are My People (Noor Theatre for Next Door), and Daybreak (The Beckett Theatre/Pan Asian Repertory Theatre). Her other theatre credits include Marjana and the Forty Thieves and Pay No Attention to the Girl (Target Margin Theater) and Alternating Currents (Working Theater). She received her M.F.A. from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts. Pronouns: she/her/hers
ALEJANDRO FAJARDO is a Colombian Lighting Designer and Photographer based in New York City. Recent credits include Public Servant and The Healing (Theatre Breaking Through Barriers), Cherie Dre (Danspace Projects), /w/ and fôr (Michiyaya Dance), Ursa Minor, Sueño, Carnal, and No Baby (The New School COPA), Climate Change: an Opera? (Rough Draft Festival, LPAC, upcoming BRIC), The Last Five Years and Levity (Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, Big Sky, MT), SUPERHERO (Southern Theater, Minneapolis), Millie (short film), She She She (Hook & Eye Theater, nominated for outstanding lighting design NY Innovative Theater Awards), The Space Between the Letters (The Civilians R&D, Public Theater UTR incoming), Me Hago Falta (Suku Dance Lab), Hamlet (Bonneville Theatre Company), The Pool Skimmer (Clubbed Thumb/Playwright Horizons Directing Fellowship), whats this called, this spirit (Ars Nova and Dixon Place), The Rakes Progress (Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia), Bareknuckle (Gleasons Boxing Gym for Vertigo Theatre Company), Once on This Island (Pace University). Alejandro is the Lighting Director for NY City Centers Flamenco Festival, and an Associate Lighting Director for Fall for Dance Festival; he is a touring Lighting Supervisor for Lucinda Child, Maya Beisser, and Wendy Whelans The Day, Brian Brooks repertory, and Rashaun Silas & Charles Atlas Tesseract; he is one of the Site Lighting Designers for various music festivals including Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival and Electric Forest. www.fajardodesigns.com
BETH LAKE is freelance Sound Designer and theater practitioner based in NYC. She has a particular fondness for creating new, ensemble-based experiences. She specializes in responsive sound design throughout the rehearsal process. Her work with ensemble companies as a collaborative process informs her designs and the production as a whole. As a member of the Blessed Unrest ensemble she has created several devised works on a variety of topics such as body image, immigration, folk tales, and literature. As the Artistic Associate of Team Awesome Robot she has shepherded the development of every production and workshop, in addition to curating their interactive event Drinking & Dragons. Beth also is a lecturer of Sound Design at Yale University.
Recent designs: American Girl, Live! (Mattel), The Play That Goes Wrong (Mischief theater, NYC), The Revolutionists, The Price, An Iliad (Gulfshore Playhouse), This is Our Youth (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Sex With Strangers (Westport Country Playhouse). Other projects include:1,000 Splendid Suns (Tour), My Fair Lady, The Wolves (Lincoln Center Theater), Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet (Broadway). Education: M.F.A. UC-Irvine; Member USA829.
BETH GOLDENBERG is a New York based costume designer working in theatre and opera. Her previous designs include Circus: Wandering City (BAM Next Wave), The White Devil, The Changeling (Red Bull Theater); Engagements, The Other Thing (Second Stage); Blueprints To Freedom (La Jolla Playhouse); Henry V, Queens For A Year (Hartford Stage); Frankenstein, The Christians (Dallas Theater Center); Gaslight, Engagements (Barrington Stage Co.); Stabat Mater, the little match girl passion, Macbeth (Glimmerglass Opera); La Susanna, Don Giovanni, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor (Heartbeat Opera); amongst others. She holds an MFA in Costume Design from New York University. www.bethgoldenberg.com
PORSCHE MCGOVERN (Lighting Designer): She designed The Last Five Years (Portland Stage), Skeleton Crew and We Are Proud to Present...(Playmakers Repertory Company), A Single Shard (People's Light and Theatre Company), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). In New York, she designed Mothers (Playwrights Realm), Bureau of Missing Persons (Neighborhood Productions), Ghetto Babylon (Dramatic Question Theatre), many shows with Spookfish Theatre Company, and others. She has an MFA from California Institute for the Arts and a BA from St. Lawrence University. She also researches designers and directors in regional theatres, which can be found at http://howlround.com/authors/porsche-mcgovern. Pronouns: she/her/hers
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LocationSITI Company Peter Zeisler Studio (View)
520 8th Avenue, Suite 310
New York, NY 10018
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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