WHO’S WHO

world premiere of Jane Anderson’s Looking for Normal at Geffen Playhouse (Ovation Award nomination) and the West Coast premiere of David Mamet’s November. Ron’s play Jerome was selected as a Finalist for the O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference, and workshopped at New York Stage & Film. Florida Rep selected Jerome for its 2020 PlayLab Festival. Lagomarsino’s television credits include the pilots of David E. Kelley’s Picket Fences (Directors Guild of America Award), Homefront (Emmy nomination), and the Pretty Little Liars spinoff Ravenswood, (Co-Executive Producer). Favorite episodic TV includes thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, Ally McBeal, Switched at Birth, The Fosters, Nashville, and the hugely popular Pretty Little Liars (25 episodes). Ron’s movies for TV include the Hallmark Hall of Fame My Sister’s Keeper, starring Kathy Bates and Lynn Redgrave (National Association for Mental Illness Media Award for Direction). The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellowship, he served as Resident Director for two seasons with Hartford Stage Company. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University (valedictorian) and New York University School of the Arts (J.S. Seidman Award).

STEPHANIE HAWKS (Costume Designer) has had a long and varied career in design and theatre education. Stage design credits include Virginia Stage Company, Peach State Summer Theatre, Playwright’s Repertory Festival, Jacksonville University, University of Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut State University, Theatre at Monmouth and Acadia Repertory Theatre. Indie film credits include Bordando La Frontera, a Lobo Films production; Somewhere in the Midwest, a Dustin Whitehead production; and A Cross in Time, by Devlin Mann. Costume technician credits include The Goodspeed Opera House and Longwharf Theatre in Connecticut, Theatre by the Sea in Rhode Island, The Alhambra Dinner Theatre in Florida, and Virginia Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare by the Sea in Virginia. Stephanie has served as assistant professor of costume design at the University of Texas Pan American and Hampton University and was a full-time lecturer in theatre design at the University of North Carolina Pembroke. In August, 2022, Stephanie joined the Florida Repertory Theatre company as Costume Shop Manager. She holds an MFA in costume design from the University of Connecticut and a BA in theatre from the University of West Florida.

KATIE LOWE (Sound Designer) is happy to return as Resident Sound Designer for the 25th season! Previous credits include Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, On Golden Pond, The Importance of Being Earnest, Ripcord, Freud’s Last Session, And Then There Were

None, Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Matilda, Spring Awakening, Disney’s Newsies (Sound Engineer, Florida Repertory Theatre), Maytag Virgin, Bulletproof Backpack, Every Brilliant Thing, Barefoot in the Park, Alabaster, An Inspector Calls, A Fox on the Fairway, Always…Patsy Cline, Romeo and Juliet, August Wilson’s Fences, Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical, Damascus, Steel Magnolias, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Refugee, (Sound Designer, Florida Repertory Theatre), Cabaret (Florida Repertory Theatre, A2), Million Dollar Quartet (Endstation Theatre Company, A2), Sense and Sensibility (University of Kentucky). Katie thanks her parents and fiancé, Ben for their endless support and love!

RAY RECHT***† (Scenic Designer) is delighted to be back at Florida Rep, where as an ensemble member, his designs include Maytag Virgin, Doublewide, The Cocktail Hour, Dancing at Lughnasa, Doubt, and others. Broadway designs include The Flowering Peach, Trick, Slab Boys, The Babe, several national tours, and over 20 Off-Broadway productions, such as Collected Stories, Marc Salem’s Mind Games, Mrs. Klein and sets for the Drama Desk Awards Shows. He has designed over 200 shows for many regional theaters, such as Asolo Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Florida Stage Co., Center Stage, George Street Theatre, and Riverside Theatre. Recently he designed the American premier of Sinners, directed by Brian Cox for the Mirror Theatre Co. He has designed several feature films and was an art director or assistant art director on many others. He has worked extensively in television, including NBC, Fox, PBS, ABC, over 150 commercials, and many commercial parodies for Saturday Night Live. Internationally, he designed for the Wien Staatsoper Ballet, the Stratford Festival, Ontario, and the Manitoba Theatre Centre. He is a professor of Theatre at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City and a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, IATSE.

JANINE WOCHNA*† (Stage Manager) is an ensemble member having most previously stage-managed The Importance of Being Earnest, And Then There Were None, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Maytag Virgin, Morning After Grace, The Woman in Black, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, and many others since 2005. Regional theatre credits include The Man of La Mancha and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Triad Stage, four seasons as Resident Stage Manager at the Geva Theatre, and 14 seasons at the Cleveland Play House. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.