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WHO’S WHO
EDUARDO SICANGCO (Costume Designer) lives in New York and continues to enjoy a prolific 40-year career as a set and costume designer. He has designed for a wide range of entertainment forms including plays, musicals, opera, classical ballet, modern dance, film, television, cruise ship revues, theme parks and circus and ice shows. His work has been seen on Broadway and Off-Broadway, in major regional theaters and opera houses across the USA, Radio City Music Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Madison Square Garden, Las Vegas showrooms and international productions. He is very happy to be back at Goodspeed where he designed the sets and costumes for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Mack and Mabel, Ankles Aweigh and the scenery for Redhead, Lady Be Good, Madame Sherry, Lucky in the Rain and Das Barbecu. Website: eduardosicangco.com
PAUL MILLER (Lighting Designer) Previously at Goodspeed: My One and Only, How To Succeed…, Music Man; Broadway: Rube & Clay’s Christmas, Amazing Grace, The Illusionists, Legally Blonde, Freshly Squeezed, Laughing Room Only; Off-Broadway: Desperate Measures, Clinton!, Pageant, Vanities - the Musical, Waiting for Godot, Addicted, Nunsense, Balancing Act, City Center Encores! (9 shows); National Tours; Hairspray, Elf, Wizard of Oz, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Rent, Shrek – The Musical!; Regional: The Old Globe, Dallas Theatre Center, Chicago Shakespeare, Idaho Shakespeare, Asolo Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Westport Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre and others; Television: Evil (Paramount), Live from Lincoln Center, 26 Netflix specials, New Year’s Eve telecast from Time’s Square (24 years and over 100 musical performances); International: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, London’s West End, Vienna, Milan (Teatro alla Scala), Brazil, The Philippines, South Africa, Iceland and China.
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JAY HILTON (Sound Designer) is pleased to continue his long association with Goodspeed Musicals and is thrilled to once again be working with director Jenn Thompson. Other productions with Ms. Thompson include Bye Bye Birdie, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, Meredith Willson’s The Music Man and last season’s Anne of Green Gables. Jay has designed countless productions at both The Goodspeed and The Terris Theatre in Chester. In addition to being Goodspeed’s Resident Sound Designer, Jay serves as their Audio Supervisor and also spends some of his time recording, mixing and mastering musical theatre content for streaming platforms. He and his wife, Goodspeed Artistic Director Donna Lynn Hilton, make their home (and garden) in Hadlyme, Connecticut with Cookie and Macy.
CARISSA THORLAKSON (Wig, Hair, & Make-Up Designer) is a New Jersey-based wig and makeup designer. Off-Broadway: Grand Hotel and Little
Rock. She has also designed for Walnut Street Theatre, The Old Globe, A.R.T., McCarter Theatre Center, Hartford Stage, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Two River Theatre, Bay Street Theater, Delaware Theatre Company, Hudson Stage Company, Temple University, Olney Theatre Center, the University of Delaware Resident Ensemble Players, The Princeton Festival, and American Repertory Ballet. She has served as a wig and makeup artist at operas and theaters across the country. Carissa also creates custom medical wigs, cosplay wigs, and teaches classes in wigs and makeup. You can find her at CThorwigs.com and @wigician.
DAN DeLANGE (Orchestrator) Dan DeLange’s orchestrations have been heard on Broadway, Carnegie Hall, London’s West End, national and European tours, and at regional theaters around the world―including over 50 productions at Goodspeed Musicals. He has orchestrated for The Jim Henson Company, Julie Andrews, Rosie O’Donnell, Live Theatricals at Universal Studios, Manhattan Concert Productions, iTheatrics, Troika Entertainment, as well as for composers Jerry Herman, Harvey Schmitt, Paul Williams, Charles Strouse, and Stephen Schwartz. He is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For more information, visit DanDeLangeOrchestrations.com
TREVOR PIERCE (Associate Music Director) is thrilled to join the Goodspeed family. Off-Broadway / NYC: Whiskey Pants (HERE Arts), Once Upon A Mattress (St Jean’s Theater), Green Gables (DR2), Fire Island (TheatreRow). Tours/Int’l: Elf Nat’l Tour, Anything Goes Nat’l Tour, Celebrity Cruises. Regional: Barrington Stage, Ogunquit Playhouse, Hartford Stage, The Gateway, Argyle Theater, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, and others. Thanks to Adam for bringing me onboard. BA in Theater/Music, University of Pennsylvania. Love to Mom, Dad, and John. www.trevormpierce.com
WILLIAM BERLONI (Animal Director and Trainer) 2011 Tony® Honoree for Excellence in Theatre; 1977 and 2013 Outer Critics Awards and 2017 Drama League Award for Unique Contribution to the Theater. BROADWAY: Annie (1977) to The Ferryman (2018) and 25 shows in between. Animal Director for the new musical Because of Winn Dixie Credits include hundreds of off-Broadway, regional and national tours. Television: producer and star of From Wags to Riches with Bill Berloni, Annie, Peter Pan and The Wiz Live, And Just Like That and Kaleidoscope. Author of Broadway Tails 3rd Edition. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and www. theatricalanimals.com. Bill is happy to be home where it all started.
KELSEY RAINWATER (Intimacy Consultant) is a Fight and Intimacy Director, and actress based out of the ancestral lands of the Quinnipiac people. Kelsey’s most recent work was seen in the premiere of Sally and Tom at The Guthrie. Some of