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THE COMPANY

LISA WOLPE | TIRESIAS

Lisa was the Producing Artistic Director of the all-female, multi-cultural Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company from 1993 to 2016. She worked with over a thousand women and girls, and became a leader in the movement for gender parity and diversity in the arts. She directed and played leading roles in many iconic all-female productions (Hamlet, Richard III, Angelo, Leontes, Romeo, Shylock, Iago). Her hit solo, Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender, directed by Laurie Woolery, has toured internationally. Other credits include PlayMakers Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, TheaterWorks, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Repertory Company, Shakespeare & Co, Company of Women, California Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare, Sedona Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Company, and Prague Shakespeare Company. Lisa has lectured at more than thirty universities.

DAVID DANIEL | ADAPTOR

David is a Core Company member and Education Director at American Players Theatre, where he has been bouncing on their boards (often literally) in plays for more than twenty years. He has had the honor of playing with audiences in wonderful theatre companies around the country. As a writer, he has written or adapted TheOdyssey,Steinbeck,ATrojanWoman,Agamemnonand Clytemnestra, and MeandDebry, as well as the one-act comedy collection The Shuffle of Life. He lives in Spring Green, Wisconsin, with his wife Paula and their sons Declan, Nico, and Isaac. David is a proud veteran of the US Army. “Share the arts with a vet!”

JAMES STILL | DIRECTOR

This is James’s 25th season as the IRT’s playwright-in-residence; the company most recently produced his play The House That Jack Built. James has directed many productions at the IRT, including a Christmas Carol, Twelve Angry Men, A Doll’s House Part 2, The Originalist, Dial “M” for Murder, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Red, Other Desert Cities, God of Carnage, Mary’s Wedding, Becky’s New Car, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Bad Dates, Old Wicked Songs, Plaza Suite, The Immigrant, and Dinner with Friends, as well as his own I Love to Eat, Amber Waves (2000), and Looking Over the President’s Shoulder (2001). (complete bio on page 10)

CAREY WONG | SCENIC DESIGNER

Carey’s theatre credits include the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Center Stage Baltimore, Syracuse Stage, Alliance Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Village Theatre, Mixed Blood, Prince Music Theater, Hey City Theater, and Spain’s Nearco Producciones. He has been Resident Designer for Portland Opera, Opera Memphis, and Wildwood Park. Opera credits include Seattle Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, New York’s Valhalla Wagnerfest, Pittsburgh Opera, and the Beijing and Macao music festivals. Carey was exhibition designer for the Portland Chinatown Museum’s permanent exhibit, Beyond the Gate, where a retrospective of his design work appeared last year. He is a graduate of Yale College and attended the Yale School of Drama.

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SARA RYUNG CLEMENT | COSTUME DESIGNER

Sara’s Off-Broadway credits include Golden Shield (Manhattan Theatre Club), Somebody’s Daughter (Second Stage Uptown), and Fruiting Bodies (Ma-Yi Theater Company). Regional: Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Geffen Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Folger Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Mixed Blood Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Baltimore Center Stage, Boston Court, Perseverance Theatre, East West Players, Cornerstone Theater Company, A Noise Within, Yale Repertory Theatre, and others. Set design faculty at UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Recipient of the Donald and Zorca Oenslager Fellowship in Design. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama; A.B., Princeton University. sararyungclement.com

MICHELLE HABECK | LIGHTING DESIGNER

At the IRT, Michelle has designed Fahrenheit 451, Twelve Angry Men, A Doll’s House Part 2, Looking Over the President’s Shoulder, Dial “M” for Murder, The Mousetrap, Amber Waves (2000), and An Almost Holy Picture. Broadway: slide artist for Thoroughly Modern Millie; associate/assistant lighting design for The Boy from Oz, Movin’ Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and King Hedley II Off Broadway: Fifty Words for MCC Theatre. Regional; Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Alliance, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Arizona Theatre Company, Penumbra, Lookingglass, others. Opera: Austin Opera; associate for Julie Taymor’s Grendel. Michelle was awarded the NEA/TCG Career Development Grant for Design. She leads the lighting program in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin.

LINDSAY JONES | COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER

IRT: Dial “M” for Murder, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Good People, Agnes of God. Broadway: Slave Play (Tony nominations for Best Score and Best Sound Design of a Play), The Nap, Bronx Bombers, and A Time to Kill. Off-Broadway: Privacy (Public), Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Feeding the Dragon (Primary Stages), and many others. Regional: Guthrie, Center Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Hartford Stage, Alliance Theatre, Goodman, Arena, Old Globe, Chicago Shakespeare, Steppenwolf, many others. International: Stratford Festival (Canada), Royal Shakespeare Company (England), many others. Audio dramas: Marvel, Audible, Next Chapter Podcasts, and the award-winning “The Imagine Neighborhood.” Film/ TV scoring: HBO Films’ A Note of Triumph (2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject), over 30 other films. He is co-chair of Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA) lindsayjones.com