THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM SHANA COOPER (Director) is an assistant professor at
Northwestern University (Directing M.F.A. program) and a company member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Directing credits: Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth, A.C.T. (SF), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Studio Theater and California Shakespeare Theater. Shana was the Associate Artistic Director of the California Shakespeare Theater (2000-2004), and Cofounder of New Theater House with Yale School of Drama alumni (2008-present). Awards: 2014 Leadership U Grant – Funded by The Melon Foundation and Administered by TCG, 2010 Princess Grace Award, Drama League Directing Fellow. Upcoming projects: Indecent by Paula Vogel at OSF, Ibsen’s Lady From the Sea at The Court (Chicago) and the inaugural season of The Coop in NYC. MFA, Yale School of Drama. www.shanacooper.com RAQUEL BARRETO (Costume Designer) is a Los Angeles-
based designer working in theater, dance and opera. Her designs have been on stage at the Guthrie Theater, Denver Tiffany Rachelle Stewart (Calphurnia) in Theatre for a New Audience's production of THE TRAGEDY Center, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory, Actors Theater of OF JULIUS CAESAR, directed by Shana Cooper. Louisville, Portland Center Stage, The Folger Theater, Syracuse Photo by Gerry Goodstein. Stage, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, California Shakespeare Theater, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cornerstone, Magic Theatre, Latino Theater Co, Jacob’s Pillow, and many others. Raquel is a native of Brazil and teaches costume design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and TV. www.raquelbarreto.com SIBYL WICKERSHEIMER (Set Designer) Regional: Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse. Sibyl is an Associate Professor at USC in the School of Dramatic Arts. Her designs will be displayed in the US exhibit at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND (Lighting Designer) Over 600 productions at theater, opera, and dance companies
in the US and around the world. For TFANA: Waste, King John, Don Juan, Cymbeline, Pericles, The Ohio State Murders, Orpheus X. Recently: Merrily We Roll Along (Laura Pels/Roundabout), Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera), Roberto Devereux (San Francisco Opera), Time and the Conways (Broadway/Roundabout). SHANE SCHNETZLER (Production Stage Manager) TFANA: The Emperor, Heart/ Box, The Two Gentlemen of
Verona, Tamburlaine, Cymbeline. Off-Broadway: Noura, This Flat Earth, The Profane, Rancho Viejo, Familiar (Playwrights Horizons); Napoli, Brooklyn, Look Back in Anger (Roundabout); The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors (NYSF); Detroit ’67 (Public); Night is a Room, The Liquid Plain, The Old Friends (Signature); Red Dog Howls (NYTW); Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep); The Scottsboro Boys (Vineyard). ERIKA CHONG SHUCH (Choreographer) Erika Chong Shuch choreographs for companies such as Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Kennedy Center, American Conservatory Theater, Playmakers Rep, California Shakespeare Festival, Magic Theatre, Arena Stage, Kansas City Rep and Pittsburgh Public. As a performance maker, Erika’s recent work includes For You (a Creative Capital 22
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