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television and radio broadcasts. He has worked with major soloists, including Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Lang Lang, Gil Shaham, Sarah Chang, Lynn Harrell, Denyce Graves, Angela Brown, Christine Brewer, Mark O’Connor, Marvin Hamlisch, Pink Martini, Time for Three, Ronan Tynan, Jim Brickman, Cherish the Ladies, and Arlo Guthrie. Mr. Nardolillo is the Artistic Director of the Prague Summer Nights Music Festival in the Czech Republic, and joined the University of Kentucky faculty in 2004, where he currently serves as the Director of Orchestras.
TONY HARDIN (Set and Graphics Designer) is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Kentucky. He earned his MFA from the University of Virginia. He teaches courses in scenic design, lighting design, scene painting, projection design, and stage management. He served as Education Commissioner for the US Institute for Theatre Technology for several years, and has recently been nominated to their Board of Directors. In 2006 he received the Marvin Simms Design Fellowship sponsored by the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival. His current research agenda is focused on the use of projections in academic theatre. Professionally, he has significant experience as a scenic and lighting designer in a variety of venues around the country including Virginia Shakespeare, the MeX Theatre, and La MaMa ETC.
MARC SCHLACKMAN (Director of Production and Production Stage Manager) began his Broadway stagemanaging career with Mary Martin
and Anthony Quayle. Since then he has stage-managed a dozen Broadway and many Off-Broadway productions with some of the brightest stars in the business, including Lauren Bacall, Joel Grey, Jim Dale, Glenn Close, Patti LuPone, Danny Aiello, Len Cariou, Petula Clark, David Cassidy, Jonathan Pryce, Bill Irwin, Danny DeVito, George Burns, Yul Brynner, Robert Goulet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Mitzi Gaynor. He has traveled the world supervising or stage-managing more than twodozen national, bus-and-truck, stock, and ballet tours. Mr. Schlackman produces four major shows a year with UK Opera Theatre and directs the Schmidt Opera Outreach Program, which tours children’s operas throughout the Commonwealth. His greatest achievements are his daughters, Sara Rue and Leah Schlackman, and getting Joan Rue to marry him. He is most proud of and in love with his granddaughters, Talulah Rue Price and Adelaide Rue Price.
TANYA HARPER (Lighting Designer) has enjoyed designing lighting for UK Opera Theatre productions for over twenty years. Favorite designs include The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, Porgy and Bess, South Pacific, and Lexington’s unofficial kickoff to summer, the annual production of It’s a Grand Night for Singing! She works with many other groups in Central Kentucky as a freelance lighting designer and production stage manager. She has been pleased to collaborate with The Lexington Theatre Company on 42nd Street and Mary Poppins. For Kentucky Ballet Theatre, she has created many designs for classical repertoire and original ballets by artistic director Norbe Risco, including The Nutcracker,