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LILY TUNG CRYSTAL (she/her) Director

Lily Tung Crystal is a director and actor and the artistic director of Theater Mu. She is grateful to be collaborating with such talented and generous artists. In the Twin Cities, she has directed Jiehae Park’s peerless, Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band, and the live film-theater production of Susan Soon He Stanton’s Today Is My Birthday at Mu and Art is a Verb (Harrison Rivers, librettist) at MNOpera. Other shows include David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish and Flower Drum Song at Palo Alto Players, and the world premiere of Leah Nanako Winkler’s Two Mile Hollow at Ferocious Lotus. For all three shows, she was named a Theatre Bay Area Award Finalist for Outstanding Direction. As an actor/singer, Lily has performed at theaters across the country, including Cal Shakes, Crowded Fire, Magic Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, New World Stages, Playwrights’ Center, Portland Center Stage, SF Playhouse, and Syracuse Stage. She is a YBCA 100 honoree, named by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as a “creative pioneer making the provocations that will shape the future of culture.” More At theatermu.org; lilytungcrystal.com

KATIE BRADLEY (she/her) Dramaturge

Park Square (as actor) with Theater Mu: Flower Drum Song Representative Theatre (as dramaturg) History Theatre: Wilson’s Girl (workshop); (as actor) Guthrie Theater: Guys and Dolls, A Christmas Carol (20162019), South Pacific; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Cocoanuts, Into the Woods; Indiana Repertory Theatre: Murder on the Orient Express; Theater Mu: Today Is My Birthday, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ching Chong Chinaman, and others Upcoming Projects (as actor) Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Murder on the Orient Express

ISABELLA DAWIS (she/her)

Music Director

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre 5th Avenue Theatre: Half the Sky (radio musical); Theater Mu: peerless; Center for Contemporary Opera: Sweat; New Ohio Theatre: Icons/ Idols; Theater Mu & Skylark Opera: The Mikado; Minnesota Opera: Doubt Awards/Other (as librettist/lyricist)

Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre, Fred Ebb Award, Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award Training B.M., Piano Performance summa cum laude, University of Minnesota; Diploma, Vocal Performance, New England Conservatory Upcoming Projects

Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol; Round House Theatre: Half the Sky More At isabelladawis.com

ROSHNI DESAI (they/she)

Assistant Director

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Jungle Theater: The Wickhams; Nebraska Shakespeare: Othello; Great River Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice Awards/Other Artistic Apprenticeship at The Playwrights’

Center Training University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program

EM FRIEDMAN (they/them)

Assistant Stage Manager

Park Square Aubergine Representative Theatre Collide Dance Theatre:

Class of ‘85; Theatre Mu: TwentyPho Hour Playfest; Macalester College: Twelfth Night; Penumbra Theatre: Brothers Paranormal Awards/Other

Stage Management Fellow, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2022-2023 Season

Training B.A., Theatre and Dance, Macalester College

LYNDSEY R. HARTER* (she/her)

Stage Manager

Park Square Agatha Christie: Rule of Thumb, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Agitators, Cardboard Piano, The House on Mango Street, With Theater Mu: Flower Drum Song Representative

Theatre Guthrie Theater: A Christmas

Carol; Minnesota Opera: Fellow Travelers; Theater Mu: Man of God and others; Pillsbury House + Theatre: What to Send Up When It Goes Down; Theater Latté

Da: Man of La Mancha; Collide Theatrical Dance Company: Class of ‘85 Training

B.A. ,Theatre Arts, summa cum laude, Hamline University Upcoming Projects

History Theatre: The Root Beer Lady; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol, Shane

KATHARINE HOROWITZ (she/her)

Sound Designer

Park Square Romeo and Juliet, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, Calendar Girls, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Sons of the Prophet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, My Children!

My Africa!, Sexy Laundry, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Stick Fly, Doubt, A Parable, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, The School for Lies, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Agnes of God Representative Theatre

Guthrie Theater, Creede Repertory Theatre, Jungle Theater, History Theatre, Theater Mu, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, Great River

Shakespeare Festival Awards/Other

2017 McKnight Theatre Artist Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center Training

B.A., Theatre Arts, University of Iowa

Upcoming Projects History Theatre: Root Beer Lady; Diesel Heart; Children’s Theatre Company: An American Tail

MATTHEW LEFEBVRE † (he/him)

Costume Designer Park Square Holmes and Watson, Cyrano de Bergerac, Retreat from Moscow, ART, Romeo and Juliet, Three Days of Rain, The Waiting Room Representative Theatre

Guthrie Theater: 20+ productions since 1998 including A Christmas Carol; Penumbra Theatre: 20+ productions since 2000 including Ma Rainey’s Black

Bottom; Jungle Theater: A Doll’s House, Part 2, Minnesota Opera: Das Rheingold; Milwaukee Rep: Cyrano de Bergerac; New York Theatre Workshop: Bach at Leipzig

Awards/Other 2014-2015 McKnight

Theatre Artist Fellowship; 2012 TDF

Irene Sharaff Award; 2015 Ivey Award; Professor of Costume Design: University

of Minnesota

Upcoming Projects Portland Playhouse/ Penumbra Theatre: What I Learned in Paris; Penumbra Theatre: Sugar in Our Wounds

ANDREA MORIARITY (she/her)

Wig Artisan

Park Square Holmes and Watson, The Color Purple Representative Theatre

Jungle Theater: A Doll’s House: Part 2; Penumbra Theatre: Girl Shakes

Loose; Theater Latté Da: Peter and the Starcatcher Awards/ Other Andrea’s wig work, along with her colleagues’ at Guthrie Theater, appeared in the August/ September 2019 issue of American Craft Magazine Training M.F.A., Theatre Design and Production, University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music

JOHN NOVAK (he/him)

Properties Designer

Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Jungle Theater: over 100 productions, most recently Every Brilliant Thing, Redwood, and Cambodian Rock Band; Skylark Opera Theatre: Eugene Onegin Upcoming Projects Ten Thousand Things: Iphigenia at Aulis; Jungle Theater: 2022-23 Season

KARIN OLSON (she/her)

Lighting Designer

Park Square: Pride and Prejudice, Aubergine, Well; With SteppingStone Theatre: Princess Nightingale, Ruby!, Jack and the Beanstalk, Four Little Girls, Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Tom Sawyer, Pinocchio, Little Princess, Magic Bus to Asian Folktales, Stinky Cheese Man, My Grandmother’s Tchotchkes, Petite Rouge; With Full Circle Theater: Atacama, The Empathy Project; With Collide Dance: The Picture of Dorian Gray; With Theater Mu: The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity, Tot, A Little Night Music, Into the Woods Representative Theatre

Cleveland Playhouse: Antigone; Jungle Theater: Redwood; Guthrie Theater: Valor; Ordway Center presenting Taiko Arts Midwest: HERbeat; Trinity Rep: A Christmas Carol; Walker Arts Center: