WHO’S WHO ON THE CREATIVE STAFF amazing team and hopes to work with them again in the future.
Directing experiences include The Good Doctor and Kaleidoscope.
SETH MILLER (Lighting Design) came to work at the Grand Theatre in 2007 as the Technical Director. He is now in his eighth season with the Grand and is currently the Executive Producer. He started out working in the IATSE Local 99 stage hands union, after which he attended the University of Utah for a degree in theatrical design. Seth began working at Lagoon Amusement Park in 1997 for their Entertainment Department as Staff Lighting Designer and still designs lights for their shows today. From 2001-2006 he worked at The Egyptian Theatre in Park City. He also works as a free-lance Lighting Designer for a variety of local theatre companies, as well as many corporate events around the country, including Walt Disney World for Disney Event Group and Harley Davidson’s Annual National Dealer’s Conventions.
KENNETH PLAIN (Music director) happily returns to the Grand after last fall’s Young Frankenstein. In 2015, Ken music directed the Sundance Film Festival opening night gala with the cast of Broadway’s Fun Home. Regional theaters include: Powerhouse, Theatre East, Sundance and Pioneer Theatre Company. Credits include: A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder (workshop), Les Miserables, Elf, It Happened One Night and Spellbound(starring Sally Field), and the world premiere of Jones & Schmidt’s, Mirette. Ken works as Lagoon entertainment’s musical director and is on the U of U theatre department’s music staff.
CHRISTINE MOORE (Choreography) is excited to return to the Grand after working on Young Frankenstein. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in both the Ballet and Theater Departments at the University of Utah. She holds her BFA and MFA from the Department of Ballet. She is excited to be choreographing for The Grand Theatre and working with the amazing cast and creative team. Choreography credits include: Hair (Babcock Theater), Wild Party (Studio 115), Would Be Gentleman (Babcock Theater), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Babcock Theater). Her choreography has been showcased in the American College Dance Festival, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas show PBS Special 2013-2015, in various musicals and industrial shows. She was also chosen to be a part of the SDC 2011 Observership Program. MÁIRE NELLIGAN (Properties Design) received a BFA in theatre from Marietta College before attending graduate school at AU. She worked as a techie, a designer, an actor, and a director in the Midwest and Southwest before moving to Salt Lake. Máire took over as Properties Master for the Grand several seasons ago, debuting with Man of La Mancha. While her favorite show tends to be whichever she is currently working on, Miss Evers’ Boys and The Wizard of Oz are particularly memorable, and dressing last season’s La Cage aux Folle may well go down as the most fun ever. Past performances include roles in Fuddy Meers, On the Verge and Dead Man’s Cell Phone.
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HALEE RASMUSSEN (Set Design) received her BFA in the Performing Arts Design Program from the University of Utah with a double emphasis in technical direction and set design in 2009. She is currently in her fourth year as the Assistant Technical Director and Scenic Charge Artist for the Department of Theatre at the University of Utah. Halee is elated to be in her sixth year as one of the resident set designers at the Grand Theatre. Other design credits include: Salt Lake Shakespeare Company, Utah Lyric Opera, Alligator Press Productions, Lagoon, Utah Cultural Arts Center, and the University of Utah; design assistant credits with Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theatre Company, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. DAVID SCHMIDT (Director) returns to The Grand after directing last fall’s Young Frankenstein. David is the Head of the Voice Area for the Department of Theatre at the University of Utah, and helped to bring back the Musical Theater Department in 2007 after a 30 year absence. David is the co-founder and past Board President of the Salt Lake High School for the Performing Arts, Salt Lake City’s first performing arts high school. He is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Utah Light Opera Company. David’s Opera and Operetta directing credits include Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail, Don Pasquale and Hänsel unt Gretel at Oper Im Park in St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria; Die Zaubeflote, Pirates of Penzance and The Gondoliers for Utah Light Opera. David has directed Avenue Q, Sweeney Todd, The Wild Party and Songs for a New World at the University of Utah, and Once Upon a Mattress for the Salt Lake Shakespeare Festival. He has music directed Hair, The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the Department of Theatre.
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